Maybe put a cap on NIL giving per academic year? I have no idea how to come up with a reasonable cap though.
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Maybe put a cap on NIL giving per academic year? I have no idea how to come up with a reasonable cap though.
There are a lot of walls and boundaries between this and wild Wild West. I understand the concern and totally agree if it turns into that I will be a lot less interested.
But there is still a long way to go before amateur sports are over. The sky is not falling. I guarantee you the game threads here will be just as long. Who care if our LT gets money from UMI restaurant for appearing? They were already being compensated and living a lot better than a lot of folks. They are not and have never been victims.
They do work hard and deserve credit for it and they got that. Let it be
It's going to become more one sided than it is now. That's the problem.
Oh it'll work, it will just morph college football into something it was never intended to be, and that is what they want.
This is a contradiction. It?s going to separate the haves and the have nots? Yet, you?re worried about Miami rising up? Seems like you think it?s going to give more teams a chance.
It?s funny that all you free-market capitalists have a problem with people earning money that any other college student would be able to earn.
What limits are there on a per player or dollar amount?
Can Jimmy Haslam theoretically pay a player 6 figures to be on a Flying J billboard?
Anyone, and I mean anyone, can give money directly to players at any amount under any circumstances. The NCAA hold on buying players is over. I believe we all can agree, any student that has the ability to make money legally should have that right to do so. As they should. Same as in any student can transfer freely from one university to another, players should have that same ability.
We are all just accustomed to the NCAA treating these players as property. Holding their "passports" and forcing them into labor without pay because they have the only path to the pros. Those days are done. MSU needs to organize a "SuperPac" and do this big. If you don't, well look at Southern Miss. We need to become the place you go to make bank. Big time players, making big time money. Cause if you don't, Bama will. If we don't, UM will. There is not an option here. We need to get out there NOW. Not tomorrow, not next week, not after breakfast....NOW.
It's going to create a sports league that more closely resembles professional leagues. Big committed fanbases, committed rich boosters, and committed local businesses are going to be important. So there will be some schools that are better able to comopete under the new regime. Just looking at football: Miami, despite being a small private school, actually has a rich donor base that might be wiling/able to make them competitive again. If T Boone Pickens were still around, he alone could make Ok St. relevant. If Jerry and one of the walmart heirs wanted to, they could make arkansas nationally relevant. A&M and Texas will probably stop being sleeping giants and will be able to buy their way out of their cultural problems. Alabama will be hurt but has enough crazy boosters they can probably keep up. Auburn will probably be about the same. This may help UTenn improve to consistently above average, but I don't think they are in a position to be nationally relevant.
The schools that will be hurt the most are the ones that are currently doing more with less. I'm sure there is somebody it will hurt more than MSU, but I'm not sure who it is. I'm thinking we are extremely lucky to have Leach right now, as I think he can put a decent offense on the field while losing a lot of recruits because of lower NIL payments.