Biggest NIL Deals in College Sports - SOME NOT GETTING PAID

This article and Carr's viewpoint is a reflection of my own. I'm not against compensating athletes, but I am opposed to the individualistic concept of the spotlight being on one player when it is a team sport. BTW, NOTICE WHAT THE OLE BALL COACH ADMITS?
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/football/article264034281.html

 

"NIL stands for Now Its Legal."

Perfect.

Also, 35 million in buyouts is disgusting coming from a public university. The money problem started long before players started getting paid.

 

I like all the college sports and it’s great for kids. Maybe the true amateur college football is played by unprofitable teams. If a schools football team doesn’t turn a profit yet the school still has an athletics department with other non profitable sports, where does that money come from? Maybe this is where we should look in the future for amateur college sports. I know I had to pay $500 for my kid to play basketball this past year at a public school. Somebody has to pay it I guess and tax dollars aren’t coving it all. It’s prob this way in tge majority of college athletic programs. Only tge few elite teams are actually generating a profit and I’m sure to a degree has to do with tge future nfl athletes tgat we pay big money to watch.

 

It started long ago with boosters paying players and escalated from there. Once tv jumped in and started paying billions it was on.

 

Yes, and Spurrier admits to a loan for a car while in college that he repaid as a pro.

 

Interesting that the recruits are coming with a NIL $$ figure.
Dijon Johnson RPM

 

Oh i don't think for a second that that stuff hasn't always gone on. I imagine the power programs back then like Texas ,Oklahoma, Nebraska, 60s era Arkansas, Bama and the northern teams all ruled football through boosters.

 

So almost 6 decades ago it the glory days of what we have thought of as amateur sports, he was getting illegal benefits.

 

Perhaps it’s always been bought by boosters?

 

But again, you had to be in the club to be allowed to play that game. Unless people believe SMU was the only dirty school in Texas at that time. Plenty other examples as we all know

 

But now that it’s out in the open, we are all going to be upset?

 

I was never a fan. You think I was happy with probation while others skated? I never had blinders on. I also don't believe that programs won't "cheat " even with NIL.

 

I’ve been pissed that Alabama has been buying championships since Saban got there. I’ve always believed that college football was corrupt and filthy. So maybe that’s why I’m not so upset now as I accepted it along time ago.

 

Something I was thinking about. With a majority of the top players committing before the season. You have to wonder if a player has a monster senior season, will they put themselves back on the market before ESD to see who throws more NIL at them. I expect it to happen. a Flipfest!

 

Depends if they cashed checks or just have promises