Now there’s rumors flying around that Iamaleava also wanted a Bugatti Chiron.
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Imagine if Keisean Henderson kills it in Elite 11 and moves as the #1 player in his class. Coach Fritz better open up that pocket book to 8 figures. Rankings dont matter to coaches but it does when it comes to nil value.
Coach Fritz isn’t paying the players.
I didnt meant it literally. Metaphorically speaking. No coach does lol
You sit out a year if you transfer unless you are a grad transfer. That’ll fix some of this. No 1 free transfer.
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The rumor is he did donate part of his salary to land his QB so yes, he is paying players indirectly via the collective
Smart investment for him
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We are here because the NCAA was so stubborn with athletes making any kind of money. Remember Blake Proehl?
Blake Proehl is the football player who had to book music gigs under a different name during college due to NCAA regulations. While playing football at East Carolina University, Proehl was passionate about music but couldn’t perform publicly under his own name or profit from it without jeopardizing his NCAA eligibility. To navigate this, he performed under a pseudonym to avoid conflicts with the NCAA’s rules at the time.
Because no one was going to come see him sing if it wasn’t for being an East Carolina Pirate?
Or Ryan Trahan. A cross country athlete that lost his scholarship due to his YouTube channel. (He has 19.6 million subscribers and almost 5 billion views, and not for cross country.)
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Also UCF kicker Donald de la Haye aka Deestroying. Had to choose between his YouTube channel which only had a few thousand views at the time or his eligibility.
He chose Youtube and now has over 6.2 million subscribers and kicks in the UFL now.
Also there was an Olympian skiier named Jeremy Bloom that also played wide receiver for Colorado.
Bloom was a freshman All-American in football and was a standout in the Winter Olympics.
He lost his football eligibility because he endorsed skiing equipment.
Neither of these guys would have gotten into any trouble today.
It’s funny to hear all of these anti-capitalist "get off my lawn " dinosaurs cry about athletes getting paid what the market is willing to pay them.
The market sets the price so obviously, many people, think their value to play for their school is fair.
It’s not up to you and I to set their price…the market does.
Now…is it a smart ROI venture…that’s another discussion.
It is ironic that the Texas school that has spent the MOST on NIL, Texas A&M, is the ONLY P4 Texas school to not make a recent appearance in either the College Football Playoff or the Final Four.
Maybe just throwing money at players doesn’t guarantee success on the field/court
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Reading a Rockefeller biography right now. One of the key points throughout the book is how many of our modern laws governing business can be traced back to Standard Oil. It was essentially the Wild West days of industry, so they had to make the rules as they went.
Feels like we’re living through the same period (on a much smaller scale) with the current college sports environment.
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Y’all mention 10 guys if that out of thousands that have played college football over the past decades and the few that had to change things
Bottom line ain’t no kid needs to be acting like that - he signed a contract and needs to move on if he can’t stand the terms - the trickle down effects and how it’ll effect everyone is the root cause
The court system has been proven to be weak over this also
Just call them contractors if they accept NIL and don’t even allow them rights like a true student athlete - if you want NIL you fill out a 1099 and take basic community college level classes and that’s it outside of football related activities cause your going to leave anyway and don’t care about where your at
- if you want to be a real student athlete - we’ll give you a full ride with the perks of being a student athlete on full campus utilization
I haven’t been following this as closely as I would like - where does this stand now?
did Tenn tell him to go pound sand? is he still on the team or in the portal?
Tennessee told him they weren’t paying more and he entered the portal.
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Its funny to see these posts railing on about “anti-capitalists” when it really isn’t about “anti-capitalism”
It is about how some of the things that people came to love - watching players develop over 3-5 years or have a break out season doesn’t happen much anymore.
Following that player and becoming attached when they play for your team, that’s not “anti-capitalism”
Apparently he and a few others tried to hold out during the playoffs last season for more NIL as well.
yeah…let’s go back to the BCS era when only 6 schools had the chance to make it to theChampionship or the 4 team playoff when only ONE…only ONE…non P4 even had a chance to make the playoff.
I’ll take the current system over those eras every single time.
WE, the University of Houston, just played for a Basketball National Championship in this horrible NIL era…lol
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but at what cost at the end of the day - those same donors may not be around 20 years later
they won’t…NIL, via donations, is not sustainable long term.
Water will find it’s level.
You have to tap into corporations/ marketability which is why the University of Houston will be a top 10-15 NIL brand…our Basketball squad is already there
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Yes, lets dump a strawman argument and say a bunch of things not even relevant to the topic.
I swear, there are people, like you, that have a thought in their mind and want to run around, tilting at windmills about wrongs that aren’t there.
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STRAW MAN?
The NIL and the current expanded playoff go hand in hand…they happen at the same time.
Under this CURRENT system there is more parity…that is a fact