re: Let's unpack the NIL problem shall we?

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This is how things are now, and they aren’t going back.

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Yah, yah, lot of people arrogantly believe they know the future of college football. "This is the way, it can't be stopped"

No, I say, the adults need to step back in, speak truth, and implement new rules so blatant corruption isn't rampant.

Corruption isn't okay,

I am tired of the world being afraid of the woke culture devoid of values.

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athletics and academic institutions were never meant to go hand in hand

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Check your history. How do you think college athletics started?

Still laughing...

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Corruption isn't okay, I am tired of the world being afraid of the woke culture devoid of values.

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Imagine being so obtuse that you call free market economics “woke culture.”

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yes there is. Start paying players directly and all incoming freshman must sign a 2 year contract.

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On what authority must they sign a two year contract?

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Imagine being so obtuse that you call free market economics “woke culture.”

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are you intentionally misreading the content in this thread?

Do you think the NCAA is afraid to step in and upset the money train because 80% of the players are black?

Yes or no?

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark.

All about providing some stipend for the millions they generate, but NOT what it has become. The current model is NOT sustainable and has ruined CFB as it directly contributes to the massive numbers in the portal and this renegotiating NIL deals BS. They opened up Pandora's Box and now it will be very difficult to reign it back in....

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Good post.

At some point the golden egg laying goose is going to be on life support and people are going to be asking where the miracle cure is. It will probably be too late then.

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark.

All about providing some stipend for the millions they generate, but NOT what it has become. The current model is NOT sustainable and has ruined CFB as it directly contributes to the massive numbers in the portal and this renegotiating NIL deals BS. They opened up Pandora's Box and now it will be very difficult to reign it back in....

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Title IX means this could never happen.

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What simple change will correct course?

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Reinstitute the one year "penalty" for transferring.

It's not NIL by itself that is creating the "free agency". It's that combined with no barriers to transferring.

You can't prohibit a guy from being paid for the use of his NIL. And you can't make the NIL contract tying the player to a certain school. For instance, the contract cannot be expressly predicated on the guy playing at LSU, Alabama, etc. However, in practice, that's exactly what it is. Gordon McKernan agrees to offer a kid a NIL contract...in the event he chooses to play for LSU. If the kid doesn't choose to play for LSU the contract isn't offered. The contract doesn't and can't say it is only binding if the kid plays for LSU. But in practice it is only available to the kid if he plays for LSU. Gordon's not paying to "use" the NIL of a kid playing at Alabama.

NIL is not going away. Pay-for-play is now the reality. Unless and until the players become "employees" of the athletic department, there is no real practical way to cap NIL. If a wealthy business owner wants to pay the star QB $3.5M for use of his NIL though it is really more of an inducement to sign and play for LSU, no one can stop him. But if you want to cap "salary" payments to players it would have to be through the collective bargaining process (like in pro sports). Any caps on NIL unilaterally imposed by the NCAA, conferences, etc, would be struck down in court as an anti-trust violation.

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark.

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Sounds good....won't work.

If I'm a wealthy business owner who loves LSU and wants to pay the star QB $2.0M...if he chooses to play for LSU...an outside entity, SEC, NCAA, LSU, etc can't prohibit that. It's an anti-trust violation. The player "owns" his NIL. And he can sell/lease it for any amount.

The only way it could possible work is if the player agreed to assign his NIL rights to the school. But what player would do that when he could make significantly more on the free market?

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NIL was never meant to be an open playground to buy players,

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Really? That is exactly what it was intended to be. Did you or others really think players would accept a pittance for their name, image or likeness and not look to leverage those proceeds for even more money.

A uncontrollable portal is an even bigger problem when combined with NIL.