I was outspoken against it. So there’s that.
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NIL act passed - NCAA allows athletes to monetise their name, image, likeness
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What we have now is a cluster ****. This happened because there is no central governing body to level the playing field around TV contracts, revenue sharing, and paying players. The body we had, the NCAA, did make some rules around how the game is played. But their resistence to some things allowed monied forces to get united against them and then the legal system caught up with them.
All of this is the result of money. TV brought giant paydays to the conferences. Coffers exploded. Seasons grew beyond the 11 game norm. Ridiculous facilities were built. Coaches pay ballooned. Money was flying around everywhere. Sponsors started sowing up. Things started to look a lot more like a pro sport and less like an amateur affair. Except for the players compensation.
The Presidents (the run the NCAA) failure to see this, to anticipate the court outcome, and failure to act by creating a system of pay is on them.
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I wanted to see a playoff. I was tired of the unresolved co championship and that players didnt meet on the field. The media voters who became king makers fawning over the same team year after year just because. Those guys committed plenty of gaffs by annointing one loss, even a two loss team, Champions. Meanwhile there were a few other teams out there that were undefeated and *might* have been better. But we’ll never know because they never met head to head.
Medford M.
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And yet, in the first year of the playoff...the best team didn't even get in (TCU).
I was as well. The only athletes that benefit, with a few exceptions, are star football and men’s basketball players. Those two programs fund all of the negative revenue sports. Though payments to players don’t come directly from AD funds, I am pretty sure that AD revenue is going to drop for most programs and non revenue sports will suffer as a result. Greed sucks.
He's an actively practicing socialist
Pretty funny, SEC fans don’t even like how this NIL/expansion stuff is playing out.*
*maybe because their teams did it anyway and they were oblivious to it/only wanted their teams to do it. But most of these folks genuinely don’t like it.
Do Fans actually want this?
Do Fans actually want this? - Anyone stopped to ask that question? Expansión, NIL all this crap who is actually pulling for it?
www.secrant.com
*maybe because their teams did it anyway and they were oblivious to it/only wanted their teams to do it. But most of these folks genuinely don’t like it.
For a lot of them, increased SEC revenue has not made it so their team won any more than before. Meanwhile they lost the frequency of rivalry games with traditional SEC members while making travel difficult for many conference games. Now with NIL, they are seeing the disparity between the resources of the top SEC programs separate further than ever before, reducing hope that they can ever have a magical season to win a conference title. Worst of all, it appears that Texas A&M and Texas are the top SEC dogs in this new NIL reality.
I've seen quite a bit of talk about a 3-6-6 model which means they'd play every team twice every 4 years which is much better then some teams going like 8 years without meeting under the current format.
And yea Texas and and A&M have the most money and richest fanbases so they will probably beneift the most from NIL.
Original poster was an Alabama fan.
They're pissed about the loss of regionality while seeing its dominant position erode.
BuffLuke80
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When my friend played at Bama, I believe it was a Shula son he played for, Mike maybe? They were pretty bad. I went down to Andrews for my aunt's funeral, very sudden type deal. That night, we went to Uncle J's and were just drinking, catching up a bit. Thing was, when me and my x wife got there, it was like another funeral. I just looked at everybody and said, "what's wrong?" They just pointed at the tv screen, Alabama got beat by ****ing Hawaii. I just shook my head, that was a ****ing long ass day.
My grandfather graduated from Alabama and knew Bear Bryant when Bear was a student. That football program was religion.
Was?
was is kind of a subtle commentary on how they bounced back from Dubose, Shula.
I've been critical of Rick's (and by extension CU's) stance on NIL collectives given the recruiting success places like USC, Miami, and Louisville are having in both the HS and transfer market, but this story is an indicator that some caution is warranted. It will be interesting to see how this plays out if it becomes a common problem, particularly for player who used up their one time transfer for the promise of a big NIL payment that fails to materialize.
I figured it would be like the music industry- street agent talent scouts signing people who don't know any better to contracts that own an egregious percentage of their lifetime work for a small investment that looks like huge money to the victim. But I at least expected them to get paid while getting ripped off.
Lawyers gonna get involved. Should be fun!
What happens when the athletes are the greedy assholes and only are concrerned with selling themselves to the highest bidder?
Capitalism happens.
It's always bittersweet when we see kids grow up and enter the real world from which we try to shelter them.
This is an intriguing idea.
Coaches have bonuses built into their contracts for bowl wins.
Hell, most of my support for stipends & NIL type stuff is that it's bullish!t that coaches get huge financial incentives for things the players get nothing extra for and it has resulted in players being treated like indentured servants with no rights or leverage.
I love any plan that corrects that dynamic I've never liked while also driving competitiveness. Bowls have turned into meaningless exhibition games for players - nothing but a vacation trip & a gift bag.
Commonly, outside of playoff bowls?
I'm accustomed to seeing bonuses for appearances, not wins.
College football head coaches end season at $13.6 million in bonuses from public schools
Public-school college football head coaches topped $1.8 million in bonuses from bowl games, final polls. A look at all bonuses earned this season.
www.usatoday.com
Yep, didn't total it up but looks like outside of the CFP games, bonuses far more common for bowl appearance than win.College football head coaches end season at $13.6 million in bonuses from public schools
Public-school college football head coaches topped $1.8 million in bonuses from bowl games, final polls. A look at all bonuses earned this season.www.usatoday.com
Also interesting that it seems most (all?) the coaches with bowl win incentives are not from P5 schools, which might help explain why we see a disproportionate number of G5 wins over P5 schools in bowls