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Brian Kelly Says NIL Has 'Turned Into A Runaway Train,' Warns Against Player Contracts

by Staff Reporter

June 1, 202248 Comments

Andre Broussard/ Special to The Daily Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK

LSU coach Brian Kelly was in Destin, Florida on Tuesday for SEC Football Spring Meetings and spoke with the media regarding the issues with NIL. Per USAToday:

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"This has turned into a runaway train that has moved well past a student-athlete and is moving too fast toward a professional contract," Kelly said. "I don’t think that’s what the intention was. So we’re going to need some guidelines here before this gets thrown into Congress."

"I don’t think they want contracts," Kelly said. "I don’t think they want to be traded. I’m sure they don’t want to be cut. I’m sure they’re not going to like getting a call at 3 p.m. in the afternoon saying, ‘Hey, I don’t know but we traded you today to St. Bonaventure. Oh they don’t have a football team.’”

"Because if we go down that road, aren’t they really professionals?" Kelly said. "I’m a professional. I’m a professional in that respect. They’re student-athletes."

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mattchewbocca•23 months

I mean what did they think would happen?

OLDBEACHCOMBER•23 months

They didn’t think!

TouchdownTony•23 months

The problem was, ALL that was a concern here was the athletes are being "used" and should get money off their name. The discussion never went past that. The boosters all saw the potential AFTER where the rule makers stopped thinking.

Damathe•23 months

Exactly what has happened, Chewy.

Fightin Okra•23 months

If I paid an NIL, I would have a contract including no transferring

HubbaBubba•23 months

You'd need to negotiate in a damages clause for when they break the contract, which they will.

caliegeaux•23 months

pretty spot on........and his opinion will be used to negative recruit against him as some anti NIL guy by the teams doing it openly, and aggressively wrong.

MMauler•23 months

They're not student athletes any longer. They're paid mercenaries going to the highest bidder. And A&M figured it before any other team did.

FLObserver•23 months

A&M figured it before any other team did. What are you talking about Jimbo said the didnt have to use NIL deals to get dem 5 stars lol.

rob62•23 months

This exactly what is coming and the contract will be with a booster.

PureBlood•23 months

"say boy... come weed my garden"

GoldenAge•23 months

Well. . . if I can get Olivia for the cheap she can weed my garden any day.

HarveyTunnel•23 months

Anti sports forces have been undermining college football for several years. NIL and transfer portal are two nails for the coffin. Legal sports betting helps the destructive schema. Enjoy!

Damathe•23 months

Well said HT. Part of the same plan to undermine/change the entire USA into just another entity on the world stage. I would never have believed the citizens of America would ever let our Sports be affected but between the perfectly planned Virus - and the Courts - we are left with a no alternative Sports landscape and Country.

TigerBlazer•23 months

The courts… would those be the same courts that Republicans have stacked with conservative judges?

OldMailman•23 months

Or either the district ones that Obongo and the Libtards put in. Owned and operated by Soros and Killary.

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AM•23 months

I wouldn't call them student athletes at this point

CharlesLSU•23 months

It will have to burn to the ground before anything gets fixed.

Sadly, for that reason, im out.

LSUTheodore•23 months

Why be out? You only get one life dude enjoy LSU sports while you can! Don’t be on your death bed regretting all the baseball, football, and basketball titles LSU is about to have in the upcoming years!

madddoggydawg•23 months

Lmao no you're not.

burke985•23 months

Nick Sabin said they didn't pay a single player

whoyodaddy•23 months

If this continues as is, a rule should be enacted that the NIL player must compensate the enabling university the amount of his/her scholarship value.

KAGTASTIC•23 months

Glad he said it cause it doesn't look very good for the future of college sports. For goodness sake you have that Utx player that is driving around campus in a Lambo cause he signed an NIL deal with a local dealership. Who is paying his insurance, gas, and any lawsuits if he were to do something stupid in that car? At some point it's going to have schools/coaches vs advertisers, and will get messy when the kid needs to wear something or advertise somehow mid-game. They'll start repping their NIL deals during TD dances. Sad college athletics is getting ruined.

rob62•23 months

Also who owns the player? A Booster and his corporation. So who controls the player?
Man this is going to be unstable very soon.

Jabontik•23 months

Traded to bowling green lol

Geaux Guy•23 months

The mob and gangs will inevitably get involved. I’m worried for the kids who have no idea what they got themselves in to.

ElderTiger•23 months

A&M will be a good test case to see if the pay-for-play model works.

mametoo•23 months

He is absolutely correct.

rob62•23 months

If they continue with this there will be a draft and contracts with trades and cuts. You have to be pro or amateur and this is going to kill College Athletics. So be it.

CanebreakCajun•23 months

This crap will rein naturally. These boosters will soon get burnt by busts, kids who transfer and knuckleheads who get kicked off the team. They will stop paying as much and too so many kids.

CanebreakCajun•23 months

Reign in

Hangit•23 months

If they are going to come up with contracts, written by attorneys, don't the kids need agents? Is that OK now?

tigerbite2•23 months

Just asking, as a student fan, we had salary caps and NO laundry money...cap was at $4-5 per hour..maximum of 15 hours per week...we were living large..lol

tigerbite2•23 months

Do college football teams have salary caps??

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