Another NIL oddity

[Irondawg]

Ohio State five-star 2022 QB commit Quinn Ewers is "leaning" towards skipping his senior year of high school, he told Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel.

Well, this is a pretty big deal to say the least. While players enrolling early has happened quite often in recent years, there haven't been many instances in which a recruit has decided to forego his entire senior year. Ewers (6'3/206) is strongly considering doing just that, because of what he could potentially earn in endorsements thanks to the NCAA's new name, image and likeness (NIL) rules. Holy Kombucha, a Texas-based company, has offered Ewers a lucrative endorsement deal. But there's a problem: Texas doesn't allow prep athletes to accept such deals.

As a result, Ewers and his family are leaning towards the quarterback foregoing his final year at Southlake Carroll in order to enroll at Ohio State (he has one English course to complete, but that should be done by early August), and take advantage of endorsement opportunities that could approach seven figures.

? so wow a HS that hasn?t played a game of college and could never be anything more than a backup is capable landing a 7 figure NIL deal?

From a probiotic tea company I?ve never heard of? Who is doing the ROI on some of this stuff?

I think the next evolution of NIL is trying to establish ?market value? parameters somehow

[MetEdDawg]

So now colleges have incentives to intrude into high schools and tell them how they need to try and work the academic system and get their players graduated early so they can get into college more quickly to earn money.

This is really really bad. There is already plenty of shady stuff going on in high school academics as it relates to college eligibility. This is going to make it even worse.

[StarkVegasSteve]

My question on this is, what value does he bring if he can't win the job? I mean maybe there are some companies out there who will just throw money away, but it's not like this kid is a a recruiting battle. He's been committed to OSU for over a year.

I think we're going to see some of these "companies" that popped up in all of this either out of business or very near it in a couple of years. And seriously.....Holy Kombucha?!?! Like how many fans are going to buy Kombucha because some Freshman QB told them to? I'd be willing to bet a large majority of tOSU fans don't even know what kombucha is and sure as hell have never tried it. But hey, it's their money. Me personally, I'd be trying to get a pro athlete who's actually done something to promote my product.

[confucius say]

I wonder if the owner of the company has osu ties

[starkvegasdawg]

I wonder if the owner of the company has osu ties

May see a lot of "companies" spring up on paper just to give NIL deals to recruits and players.

[AlSwearengen]

They (whoever they are) won?t be happy until there are about 15 college programs playing ?big time? football. I know that MSU is benefitting from moving to the P5 system, but I miss college football of the 70?s and 80?s. Well, except the part where we were terrible.


This NIL thing is going to screw the world up.

[Bothrops]

College football has been put in an induced coma.

[FriarsPoint]

Here?s your division 1 of the future

Washington
Oregon
USC
UCLA
Texas
Texas am
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Michigan st
Ohio st
Notre Dame
Penn st
LSU
Ark(probably)
Missouri(maybe)
Maybe one Mississippi school
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Georgia
FSU
Florida
Miami
Clemson
Maybe s Carolina
North Carolina
Va tech


That?s it. This is how this will end.

ETA. Forgot Stanford. The choice is up to them. They have the money. They may not want the headache. And forget cal. They?ll drop football at the first excuse.

Colorado is another possible.

[R2Dawg]

State and OM will both survive

[TheLostDawg]

Delete

[Lord McBuckethead]

If I were this kid, I would skip senior year of high school, then gray shirt my first year. Then redshirt my 2nd year. Then after earning money for two years off this dumbass, compete for a starting spot. IF I didn't win the starting spot as a 3rd year freshman, I would then transfer to a different big time school that could offer NIL cheddar cheese, maybe even Michigan.

2 years of earnings on really zero effort. Seems like a good deal if you can get it.

[Tbonewannabe]

Seems like this environment would be perfect for money laundering. I could have just watched too much Ozark.