Brian Kelly says NIL has turned into a runaway train.

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So we’re going to need some guidelines here before this gets thrown into Congress.

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Smart man. Smarter than Jumbo anyway.

He later clarified his comments, noting "Wrong way on a one way track. Seems like I should be getting somewhere. Somehow, I'm neither here nor there."

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"I’m a professional. I’m a professional in that respect. They’re student-athletes."

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This is the only thing I somewhat disagree with Kelly on. The only reason the players are "student-athletes" is because the rules artificially keep them as such. In every other aspect major college football is very much "professional". The coaches have multi-million dollar contracts. The schools charge significant prices for tickets, and many have very high priced luxury suites.
The conferences have multi-million/billion dollar media contracts to broadcast the games. The schools have licensing agreement to allow others sell apparel...including jerseys of star players (only leaving out the last names on the back).

The schools, coaches, conferences are earning a ton of money. The only people getting largely shut out are the players...unless they can negotiate their own NIL deal.

The NCAA refused to acknowledge that major college football and basketball were more "entertainment business" than "scholastic extra-curricular activity" all the way until the point were the USSC found it was unconstitutional to prohibit the players from earning money off use of their NIL. That, coupled with the one-free-transfer rule, opened the floodgates to unrestrained "free agency".

But Kelly is right in the sense that if we are going to allow essentially unrestrained free agency then rules and contracts are needed to establish some degree of order. Otherwise, top recruits will just go to schools that offer them the highest amount only to then be able to use the leverage of the one-free-transfer rule to "renegotiate" their current deal, or seek a new "deal" with another team.

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Millionaire coaches upset they have to work harder. Poor babies

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Well this is an interesting take.

Yeah, no shite. Anybody with a brain knew what this was going to turn into. Cats out of the bag now though, pandora does not go back in the box.

I see this going only a couple ways.

CFB as we know it will completely collapse because only 1-3 schools with unlimited funding will rule everything. Every school not in that club will try to compete but will never get over the hump because those schools have all the best players.

Congress passes some sort of legislation that muddies the waters and cools off the NIL market a bit.

Either way what we have now is not sustainable. We can’t expect our biggest donors to shell out millions a year to kids with absolutely nothing in return. Atleast donating to TAF is a write off and it comes with tickets and possible upgrades to the school.

Giving money to a kid who can leave on a whim is a farce and we will have to see it play out before it gets better.

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Millionaire coaches upset they have to work harder. Poor babies

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Dumb post

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Millionaire coaches upset they have to work harder. Poor babies

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Opposed to student athletes who want millions to play a sport while being a student?

So the beef is with the coaches making too much money at work? A salary to perform a professional job, that they earned by working their way up. A career as one would call it.

NIL is for Name Image Likeness, if a company uses it for profit. Student Athletes should absolutely be entitled to a percentage of that money.
Not a million dollars to sign a LOI to attend school.

You are a complete moron and part of the cry baby culture that started this mess.

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Runaway train never going back
Runaway train tearing up the track.

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For the record, I was thinking it, too.