Yeah not like there aren’t thousands of adults… oh sorry “kids”… that aren’t similarly wealthy or earning that type of income. A 19 year old NBA player can be paid millions but a 19 year old college football player can’t? If your argument is “kids (actually adults) shouldn’t be compensated the value that they can command because they MIGHT not be smart with it” then it’s a very poor argument.
or a kid that acts in a commercial or movie…or a high school kid of college age individual.
What does age have to do with making money in our country IF the market thinks you have a service/skill the market deems valuable?
Oh so we are kids until age 35? got it
I’d like to, but an 18 year old is legally an ADULT…with the legal capacity to do everything an adult can do except (strangely) drink/buy alcohol, and be can be charged with crimes and enter into financial transactions (such as a NIL contract) as an adult.
It’s ignorant and a bogus argument for NRCoog to try and say that those athletes aren’t adults and shouldn’t be able to make such deals on that basis. The law says that the OPPOSITE is true.
In fact, the law says otherwise for just about everything else except drinking (which I disagree with).
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Of course not.
An 18 year old is an adult.
You can even rent/purchase and appear in ADULT (emphasis added) entertainment at that age.
If that isn’t enough to convince NRGcoog that an 18 year old is an ADULT (emphasis added), then I don’t know what would be.
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The market seems to be free wheeling, but I don’t see much difference between then and now except the $ is out in the open now. The problem is; what is the status of this “student athlete”? Is she/he an employee? If so, this is a big can of worms.
Get this now, Wazzu’s QB reportedly has TEN transfer offers of $1 million or more.
He’ll definitely take one of them. He sure as Hell didn’t sign up to play G5 football when he got there. He signed up for P5.
He, like others, will be part of a MASS EXODUS from Wazzu and Oregon State, with their best players going to the highest bidders.
Perhaps Tilman can offer him a deal!
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Also, economic ROI for NIL deals is increased sales thanks to “celebrity” endorsement of a business. Football wins as ROI is purely a prestige item for the one paying, and that has little to do with free market economics.
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Nope, 26th amendment was only passed in 1971 that defined an adult as being 18 and no longer 21. So chronological age of 18 is not some magical number, based on anything real or measurable. It was changed to that in the constitution about 50 years ago on the argument of “can fight, but can’t vote “. That’s it !
Ask yourself what is a measurable of cognitive maturity ?
I suppose by 18 about 99% of males have reached their maximum stature, so do you equate maximum stature with cognitive maturity ? You conflate “legal adult” with the concept of
adult maturity.
Can you understand the difference in the concepts ?
Can’t drink, can’t hold certain offices, and if under 25 you will pay surcharge on a rental car.
Ask yourself why, and try to think outside of the box and not just the “legal view”. Can you do that ?
Just like prohibition for alcohol was put in the constitution with the 18th Amendment and then yanked, something being in the constitution doesn’t make a thing a thing - it just makes it a legal thing at a point in time. That’s all it is.
Just FYI, there have only been about 175 teenagers that have played in the NBA ever. Only about
15 of those have found great sustained success.
Comparing “college football with NIL and a portal” to the NBA with contracts and players unions and guarantees is a bit of a stretch.
Sounds fine by me.
I mean what is the difference here and say Jalen Green and Victor Wembanyama getting $20M endorsement deals at 19? None.
I am a firm believer in democratic capitalism. I live by the rule of Don Corelone:
The market will figure it out.
Plenty of young:
Soccer players.
Baseball players.
Tennis players.
Hockey players.
Music artists.
Actors.
Celebrities/Influencers.
earning all kinds of big money. And that’s just in this country.
Not to mention the thousands of wealthy kids and trust fund kids. But heaven forfend that a DL earn 90K for a few years.
That’s not true either.
That’s when 18 as a voting age became a part of the Constitution.
But consider this.
At English Common law, which the USA inherited, a FIVE year old could become contracted as a worker, and many teenagers were elected to the English parliament.
People under the age of 18 regularly served in the ranks of both the Union and Confederate Armies.
So you see, the age at which someone might be considered an adult for many purposes was at one time LOWER than 18. It has fluctuated over time.
Child labor laws changed some of that, but all that is irrelevant.
What’s relevant is that under CURRENT LAW….nay……the laws which have been in place for the better part of a HALF CENTURY now, an 18 year old can negotiate and enter into a binding NIL contract….OR sign a contract to perform as a porn star.
Given that, it is indeed IGNORANT of current law to try and argue anything other than that an 18 year old is indeed a legal ADULT, with all the rights and privileges appertaining thereto, including the right to sign a contract for NIL.
An 18 year old of sound mind and body can marry without parental approval, consent to sexual relations in every state that I am aware of, and join the military.
And in every state that I know of, an 18 year old can be charged, tried, convicted, and punished for crimes as an adult.
An 18 year old can be drafted, should a draft ever be reinstated.
Whether you agree with that or not means NOTHING.
We are a government of LAWS, not a government of men. One man’s opinion of the law doesn’t change it.
And under the LAW, an 18 year old is indeed an adult, whether or not your own opinion on that matter differs.
Accept correction on that point….and remember.
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College football is now more professional and cutthroat than the NFL! At least in the NFL a team can’t simply call up another team’s player while he is still under contract with his current team and offers him a load of money to leave his current team so that he could help the bribing team to win! But in college football that is happening all the time now! That’s how Deion assembled his team! It’s things like that that make me turned off to sports more and more and it is the reason why the only team I watch is the Coogs, to support the school, but no other teams!
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I get where you’re coming, but the difference is that universities have a purpose. To provide an educational diploma to its students. The concept of Universities predates professional sports (colleges exist in every developed country and some underdeveloped)
Professional sports leagues exist to make money while compensating their employees (players) with large amounts of money. That’s not a universities duty technically speaking, especially since the NIL is not being paid for by universities but by outside sponsorships / partnerships.
All in all, NIL is very complicated. Also keep in mind that not all students athletes are even given a scholarship.
The best athletes in the country are not only getting full scholarships to attend institutions, but they are also receiving even more via NIL. The average student athlete isn’t receiving any of that and still has to work just as hard.
If it were up to me, I would institute a rule that says any student athlete receiving a certain threshold of NIL must automatically forfeit their scholarship. However, that would seem unfair and would probably hinder athlete participation.
College Football is like the NFL for the best of the best athletes.
A 3rd string linebacker at Alabama is not only not on scholarship, but is probably not seeing any NIL money either.
That 3rd string linebacker leaves Alabama with a degree, which is the intent of going to college in the first place.
Damn it, hog. I was this close to sponsoring you in the Troll Academy with free tuition and your own troll NIL. And you went and ruined it.
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No worries. I’ll come back with bigger balls