I just have one thing to say, well maybe two. Amen
Build back better! Yeah good luck with that.
I'm still waiting on EA Sports NCAA Football. That's the only positive about NIL and they're dragging their feet on it.
They need to make laws that if a student makes excessive income from NIL or whatever else, they are required to pay for their education, housing, food and everything else that is included in these free ride scholarships. That would free up scholarships for folks that actually need it. If a student transfers out of a school before a certain period of time, they are required to pay back a % of what the school has invested into the player. I have always had the opinion that students on FULL scholarships get way more than they deserve. NIL and transfer portal will continue to ruin college sports except for a hand full of schools.
They already do relax academic standards. A friend of mine had a daughter that ran cross country in HS and got a visit to Stanford. He said they told them that they will make exceptions for athletics (this was over 10 years ago). She ended up going to a Big X school on full scholly. I also doubt all these Vandy baseball players are 4.0 HS students.
Ahhhh. Same old same old in sports as in politics. The haves use the emotion on the have nots to create an even greater divide in the haves and have nots. Same play, different arena. We are here to help the little guy, while the big guys take everyone without a brain to the cleaners. Rinse repeat.
Barry Switzer is announcing his new money laundering scheme, I see.
The Goodfellas better take note, they can also make Rutgers a power. This press release reads like a Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan 10K on how they "make" money.
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Y'all remember when Gene teased this huge NIL announcement that was going to "change the game" for Mississippi State athletics?
Yeah, me too. Of course, nothing came of it and it ended up being a big turd burger.
MSU has historically always been slow to adapt, and this is no different. Of course, we're in a small town with limited opportunities, but winning big time in college football and basketball is a pipe dream for us now if it wasn't already.
I believe this to be true.
I read the article and yall are getting so played on this NIL stuff. Aint no damn way Oklahoma is paying every student athlete 40 to 50,000. Barry Switzer is fronting this to gin up steam for their entrance in to the SEC. Its brilliant bc he knows it will demoralize middle of the road conference fan bases and some stupid ass admins.
And Nick Sabin did the same thing with that whole we have a freshman QB whos already worth a million dollars bullshit.
He was recruiting and trying to demoralize his rivals all in one sentence and it shows how the Switzer and Sabans are a step ahead publicly without having to even show that its true.
That kindve money is not out there but your gullibility is.
Admission would keep that from happening. You can have all the money in the world but you cannot change admission standards for one group of students and not the other. No way schools like Vandy, Duke or those Ivory schools will do it. Most of these kids will not be able to enroll into those schools. This why Vandy sucks at football.
Just asking for a friend that doesn't know anything about football. This friend watches soccer mostly before baseball starts.
Why not just rid-ourselves of Mike Leach immediately, hire a $700 per year coach like Louisiana Tech has, and then spend the excess 4M on players.
That's immediately $50K per player plus whatever else MSU is paying. Without anymore efforts to get fans to transfer church tithes, green peace donations, or saving for tuition for their-own-kids to financing gladiators for football.
My friend says that he knows of no other PROFESSIONAL sport where all the money is given to a coach, not the players
Just going to touch on a couple of things you said- people have no idea what a "full scholarship" includes these days. This is prior to nil. Meals, room, meals. And I mean meals pretty much whenever you want them. Pell grant check( if applicable) stipend. Academic stipend... it's crazy. Add nil and MOST of the players will go into the real world and take a pay cut. And a major one if they don't make it professionally. .... too add NIL is about to make a whole lot of parents unhappy when they don't get a tax refund Bc their son/ daughter is getting a taxable benefit and they file their child on their taxes and find out not only is the refund gone but they owe taxes. And while they might not owe a lot it's different than getting a refund. Most kids aren't telling the parents they are getting a 1099 for the nil.