I mean, only 11 guys can play at a time, so they can’t sign everyone. Kids still want to play, especially if they have NFL aspirations.
Jimbo did say in the same interview that CFB bluebloods have been doing this all along and what he did really isnt any different, just legal now.
Being a pro is a double edged sword. You can’t help the team anymore, for whatever reason, hit the bricks pal!!
They are probably gonna feel like salesman who cannot meet their sales quotas and watch the guy next door doing triple or quadruple their sales numbers. Players wanted to be paid like employees, now come the expectations of the pay they are about to receive and/or contractually agree to with the NILs.
I'm not a democrat, but didn't the Supreme Court that is controlled by conservatives vote to allow this to happen? Many on this very site agreed with the decision. Now it is going to destroy college sports as we have known them. Add all the gambling that is currently tainting all sports and we will soon wonder what has happened.
My point was tongue in cheek, playing along the lines of "Let's defund the police!" followed by "Wait....crime is out of control!"
But aren’t you are blaming the wrong group, politicians enacted laws allowing it!
And then the courts chimed in and said "Well, of course the little darlings can earn money from their own names and images. This is America!"
I wish you were right but that won't happen. This NIL money isn't coming from the schools so Title IX does not apply. In theory, this is about each individual athlete marketing his/her own name, image and likeness in a free marketplace. The courts have no basis to order Bob Rhorman Chevy to provide wheels to the softball team just because the football team got cars.
your post would be absurd, if we didn't step back in time, oh, say, 20-30 years, and then look to today...
Who said the courts would force it? You'll have a lower court rule, which will be supported or overturned by a higher court and so on up the ladder until the Supreme Court either rules or most likely declines to hear it. The courts are used as a pretext to bringing it up the injustice to be "corrected". It's the rest of the peanut gallery that will force the issue. Exhibit A: The WNBA loses money, yet it exists. NIL providers will be asked to give more to the less deserving; at that point the men will be separated from the boys, so to speak.
Weird that they’re not asking for your guidance and wisdom.
The same philosophy should be applied to the wbna and other sporting activities like teams and bowl games etc. Stop using the activity as a tax write off and Start making it be its own business with profits and losses.
I have an idea. Stop recruiting players out of high school. Use the $ you save from the high school kids and transfer all $ to recruiting transfer portals.
I agree it won't last, but how much damage is being done to college sports? I think the damage will end programs at some schools and end scholarships for some non revenue sports.
Better yet try to ensure some degree of parity and and have a HS draft. If these kids want to be treated like pros then go all in. Listen to them howl when the number 1 ranked player in HS gets chosen by IU with the first pick.
Maybe not football, but they would give plasma for basketball. Not that it has helped them. They get their money's worth on TJD?
