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NIL act passed - NCAA allows athletes to monetise their name, image, likeness
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When universities begin paying players, I’ve begun wondering how that’s going to work from a liability standpoint. Typically, a company is liable for the actions of its employees when they are on the clock. A cable TV company is liable if it’s technician gets in a car accident while at work, they are liable for negligence, they are liable for fights and sexual assaults. Once the employee isn’t off the clock, they are not. With college athletes, when are they on the clock and when are they not? Just during practice and during the season? Year round, even in the summer while on scholarship? And is it 24/7? They are living on the dorms, lifting weights, eating training table. It would appear to me that the school becomes liable for just about everything they do if they become employees.
They will all be individual contracts, just like pro sports.
Remember yesterday when I said the huge announcement was them begging for money and support?
lmao
lmao
I joked at how underwhelming this would be, but I'm not sure those jokes do this justice.
We are $43,975 closer to our monthly goal than is Georgia! Take a look!
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Boulder NIL Club
The Boulder NIL Club is a membership-based community that allows fans to support and access Colorado student-athletes like never before.
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Athens NIL Club
The Athens NIL Club is a membership-based community that allows fans to support and access Georgia student-athletes like never before.
www.athensnilclub.com
I’m glad RG was able to leverage his executive position on the NIL committee into a gofundme and checking account a year later
He and Karl’s contracts are worth every cent
He and Karl’s contracts are worth every cent
And YOKE (the platform host) takes 18% of the contributions to cover overhead. Good deal for them since they’re just cut and pasting this for a whole bunch of schools.
So since not enough big time Colorado businesses are stepping up, a commercial platform has been created to grift the proletariat.
Sorry, maybe I’m a Scrooge but there are other charities in the world more in need of donations than an underperforming college football team that underperforms almost totally due to institutional negligence. Hard pass.
Sorry, maybe I’m a Scrooge but there are other charities in the world more in need of donations than an underperforming college football team that underperforms almost totally due to institutional negligence. Hard pass.
This new gofundme site is in every college town in the country. Some company set it up and is taking 18% of all donations as their fee. The rest gets split evenly across the entire team, scholarship and walk ons. At best, this is going to provide like $50/mo for the players and I can't imagine it's going to be much different at any other school. The real NIL money that makes a difference is set up by donor collectives and rich boosters scratching a check to recruits.
Thanks. Read that wrong. Point still stands that you only need 500 small donors to make a real impact & there's no reason CU shouldn't be able to find well over 10k small donors out of its database.
This is some type of corporate site and is garbage. Players begging for dollars and giving autographs and talking to you on a message board? Right.................
Yeah, when you think back to the whole idea behind "NIL" and all the controversies that have led to this point with Jeremy Bloom and his endorsements for Olympics, Johnny Manziel and him signing autographs, the tattoo stuff at Ohio State, etc. this kind of thing is ****ing ridiculous. Walk ons, middling recruits, and back up players begging the public to pay them for what?
I'd much rather see an official CU NIL collective that is managed in concert with the coaching staff and funds allocated to priority recruits who will actually make a difference, not giving $50/month to a walk on QB simply because he's on the team.
Oh, I understand that it’s a gofundme concept. Just seems like the epitome of chutzpah. But more power to any fans who want to send a little charity money to college football players. It’s First World Begging and makes you kind of embarrassed for the players and the program to be honest.
JFC - that's highway robbery. A fair concept (that could still be lucrative for the company running the thing) would be to tier it. 18% of the first X, 10% of the next X, on down to 1 or 2% once you get to real money.
Preston Slaughter
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I haven't been paying close attention to all of this but has that Jeremy Dougherty guy announced his big plan yet? Or is it just the above?
The recurring tweets with no substance are pretty tiresome.
The recurring tweets with no substance are pretty tiresome.
The above tweet is a NIL program that has nothing to do with Jeremy.
Looks like self promotion?
$5,000 a month? What will they do with that? Pay football players $60 a month? Pay every scholarship athlete $25? Geez.
New rules make star college football players millionaires
Glance around the parking lot of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at The Ohio State University this fall and you might come across a $200,000 palace on wheels, the kind of luxury ride more likely to be found in the garages of movie stars, music moguls and titans of business than on a college campus.
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