High School/College Sports NIL discussion thread

I guess you missed the Supreme Court ruling?

 

Better just ruin the sport then.

 

Let me clarify. A third party company can sponsor a player as they see fit. The NFL has a salary cap on salaries, not endorsements. Tebow’s salary has to fit under the cap, but his earnings from Jockey isn’t capped.

 

It’s not optional, it’s the law

 

You said to cap NIL or a salary cap.
Schools can't cap NIL because they are not paying it. It's a 3rd party agreement. Think LeBron and Gatorade. The NBA has no say about what Gatorade pays him.
As far a salary cap, players would have to be employees and unionized. That would allow a negotiation and collective bargaining agreement.

 

Laws are optional for the teams that are good

 

Obviously something has to give.

 

Just a matter of time

 

I agree it is just a matter of time. There are plenty of areas that need to be addressed that would benefit the players if they were unionized.
Post college healthcare for one to help take care of permanent injuries suffered while playing.

 

So insane. Went from free school to paying, endorsing, insane living quarters with the best foods and nutrition plan, insane facilities, and paying for healthcare afterwards. Unbelievably coddled. College athletes that played 10 years ago gotta be beyond pissed

 

The free market has a way of correcting itself.

 

Not when subsidized. If the colleges were paying it, it would. But when billionaires are certain schools are just buying championships for entertainment….nope

 

Exhibit A&M. Give it a few years of zero return on investments and you’ll see.

 

Not this one.

 

College athletes from 10 years ago wish they had the same situation. These things that we see didn't just happen. It's been a slow burn that has erupted.
You are to blame(as a fan) because you demanded championships and lavishing praise and worship onto the players. The money brokers are to blame because they gave the money for better everything(housing, facilities etc) The media is to blame for paying stupid amounts for rights and then making a 24/7 spectacle of the game. The NCAA/universities are to blame for making it a billion dollar business and proclaiming that the players are just students and don't deserve a cut. And it circles around, the players are now being called the coddled ones and the fans hate it. Who was coddled first?

You have to give credit to the ivy league. No scholarships, you get in on your academics and you play football on the side. True student athletes.

 

Go Brown Bears!!! Father-in-law was alumni.

 

Nah that’s a ridiculous statement. There is a way to meet in the middle to where players don’t just go to the highest bidder but are still financially compensated for playing. Both extremes are wrong

 

It's called an employee/employer relationship. It allows for negotiation on compensation.

 

In the same way it was wrong for the NCAA to make so much profit and swing the pendulum so far in their favor, it is now wrong to swing the pendulum so far over in the players favors

 

That right there is the rub and why this NIL nonsense has blown up and is flowing a river of manure now, imho.

“A third party company can sponsor a player as they see fit.” Yes they can, and that’s how it was sold and how it’s supposed to work, but we’re not seeing a bunch of that though. How many tv commercials, magazine ads, billboards, on-line ads, radio ads, newspaper ads, etc-etc-etc have you seen with college football players pitching said product/service?? Me, not many, at all.

Instead what we have more times than not now is exactly what it should not have turned into, 3rd party(s) entities (some pooling their funds, some are single stand alone individuals) simply paying players to sign/enroll at their school. They then pay via a wire/dd into their account at the agreed upon amount and frequency for their duration at said school. This is straight up inducement / pay-to-play and is what needs to be kibashed asap. It can be done, no doubt, if there is a will. I know exactly who’s gonna jump in here a tell me, you can’t limit what a player makes. Nope, you can’t, but you can regulate how it’s done and from whom though. It’s called rules & regulations.

These 3rd party affiliated entities are the scourge of college football now, imho.

* I have an idea, going to put it in the ‘how can college football be saved’ thread.