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NIL simply isn’t sustainable. When Nike or Gatorade pay a professional athlete for endorsing their brand, there’s typically an ad campaign behind them to generate a return on the investment. Of all these NIL deals, show me how everyone throwing money at these kids is getting a return on their investment. A select few have ended up decent AD campaigns but that’s the exception. I’m sure there’s a little money in autographs but not to the extent that is being poured into these deals.

The real money is in the tv deals. The first conference to fundamentally understand this and cut their students athletes in on it is going to win the realignment war. All the stupidity that comes with the NIL will disappear.

Yes, NIL is sustainable. Very, very few guys are getting the big bucks deal. Most are on NIL deals that are very affordable for the collectives. There are also alums at most schools that are so rich they would be willing to part with a million to watch their team win because winning CFB gives you BDE.

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Posted on 1/2/24 at 8:21 pm to GhostofJackson

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Yes, NIL is sustainable. Very, very few guys are getting the big bucks deal

there are 85 scholarship players, right so....

all of them are getting something at this point

could be 10 grand, could be 450k and we've heard from the coaches it's 1.5 million to 2 million for a 5 star QB...

but when you start pulling out your calculator...that adds up real quick. Add the "They didn't pan out factor"...

the boosters are the ones who cover the big salaries for the coaches...now you're asking rich alumni to ban together for a collective to create a large fund to divide up for incoming players...again, unproven players who don't have a name or image with the University yet...Never been on TV scoring a TD, hasn't pass a class yet...

Has not graduated HS yet...

the unsustainable part is the bidding keeps going up and up

Coaches are stuck saying to beat writers on the issues "It is what it is"

I personally have an issue with paying players in college athletics...

that's was never the deal, that's not an NCAA value...

If you haven't done shite on the field for LSU, like 99.9% of the fans have never heard of you because you've never been on the field, never earned a starting position, then why are you getting NIL? no one knows these players except small circles of people.

-it's pay to play, not NIL

So we can play word games and quote law or whatever, but NIL is not NIL at this point...

The NFL is the NFL, a job, for professionals...

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