As long as you don’t care that UConn football (and many others) will have no hope of competing in an escalating arms race with no rules. Will be “interesting” to see what college sports looks like after 5-10 years of this.Is your title implying this is a bad thing? This rules.
It's a disaster and unseemly. Boosters wooing 16 year olds with whatever is shiny. I wonder what will eventually blow it all up...
They don't even really own it, they have to give it back as soon as they transfer or their eligibility expiresLuxury pickup truck culture is so dumb. They're college students, they really don't need a truck. How's the parking in Salt Lake City? They probably can't even sell it due to the advertising aspect.
Why? These are kids who quite literally destroying their bodies for our entertainment, and provide the labor that gets a lot of people a paycheck. Most of them won’t see a dime from professional football.Yes, it is a bad thing.
If a kid can go get set up better for the rest of his life at another school, he should go to that other school.As long as you don’t care that UConn football (and many others) will have no hope of competing in an escalating arms race with no rules. Will be “interesting” to see what college sports looks like after 5-10 years of this.
There are two issues that are related but not the same. One is whether college athletes should be paid. I and many others have come around to the opinion that they should. The second is whether the manner in which NIL allows them to be paid is the right way to do it given the situation and the needs of the players, the universities and college athletics as a whole. One can think, as I do, that the answer to the second question is a resounding NO without questioning the need to allow players to be paid for their efforts.Why? These are kids who quite literally destroying their bodies for our entertainment, and provide the labor that gets a lot of people a paycheck. Most of them won’t see a dime from professional football.
Yup... Georgia High School Association approves NIL deals for athletesWhat's next - high school and youth sports?
Well saidThere are two issues that are related but not the same. One is whether college athletes should be paid. I and many others have come around to the opinion that they should. The second is whether the manner in which NIL allows them to be paid is the right way to do it given the situation and the needs of the players, the universities and college athletics as a whole. One can think, as I do, that the answer to the second question is a resounding NO without questioning the need to allow players to be paid for their efforts.
Youth sports are already semi professionalized. If a kid is showing talent and interest in this day in age they are entering into regional divisions that have parents traveling state lines hours each way. It becomes the social nucleus of the family. The team parents become a community. Nobody spends any time outside of it.Ridiculous - players now rule the roost.
I dislike pro sports because they ruined it with ridiculous salary standards and now college sports has turned that corner
What's next - high school and youth sports?
just ask Marcus Camby....Clingan drives an NIL leased vehicle - his dad said so on a Twitter spaces this week. I assume a lot of our players have cars leased to them for free. This isn’t new
why does having a different opinion make you a hater?buncha haters in this thread
Boosters giving all 85 players the same $70,000 vehicle is new. The more this stuff spins out of control the harder it will crash.Clingan drives an NIL leased vehicle - his dad said so on a Twitter spaces this week. I assume a lot of our players have cars leased to them for free. This isn’t new
There are two issues that are related but not the same. One is whether college athletes should be paid. I and many others have come around to the opinion that they should. The second is whether the manner in which NIL allows them to be paid is the right way to do it given the situation and the needs of the players, the universities and college athletics as a whole. One can think, as I do, that the answer to the second question is a resounding NO without questioning the need to allow players to be paid for their efforts.
It's amazing many people didn't see what was coming with this NIL nonsense.I'm in the same boat. Pay 'em... but NIL is bullsh