NLI vs NIL

I do not believe that this is anywhere close to correct. They changed the letter of intent rules to allow any player to transfer once without consequence.

I heard there was a time where players played for the school they loved and grew up watching. Not sure if true.

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Can you transfer before you ever practiced or played?

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Sure you can. Happens all the time. Under the old rules, you had to sit out a year. Now, you don't.

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Can you transfer before you ever practiced or played?


Sure you can. Happens all the time. Under the old rules, you had to sit out a year. Now, you don't.

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Then why is he asking Florida for a release?

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Then why is he asking Florida for a release?

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Because if he doesn't actually enroll and if he is released from his NLI he doesn't have to transfer. It would be like he was never there.

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I heard there was a time where players played for the school they loved and grew up watching. Not sure if true.

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Odds are, you weren't alive when that was the bulk of the highest-level football players. There are still players who do that now, the numbers are dwindling, however.

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I Know there was a time when conferences made less than a million dollars, let alone hundreds of millions of dollars, and head football coaches made less than six figures. I'm sure it's true.

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The disconnect is in perception.

College football fans want to see college football as it was for the first 125 or so years of it's history...largely an academic extracurricular activity. However, beginning in the 70's and advancing further as the years went on, media companies, the conferences, and major conference schools realized CFB had a lucrative entertainment marketplace. The networks/conferences started to agree to ever increasing deals for the rights to broadcast the games. The schools began seeing the opportunity to generate revenue for licensing the use of their IP in commerce. They also realized fans would gladly pay ever increasing ticket prices for the opportunity to attend games. ALL of that beginning to generate millions, now into the billions in revenue. And the income was/is one sided. The schools/conferences kept all of the profits and the players got none. Yes, the players absolutely get some value for their services. But that has always been in the form of cost avoidance. The school doesn't change them tuition to attend. It doesn't charge them for food or housing. But still, none of the millions of dollars in profits is going into the player's pockets as income.

Once the college football marketplace started generating millions and millions in revenue, it stopped being an "amateur sport" and started to become a lucrative entertainment business. Not really any different than the NFL with the only difference being the players don't share in the revenue/profit.

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I suspect you have a job and you enjoy getting a paycheck, right? So would you continue to work for that employer for "the love of the company" if the company was generating millions in revenue/profits largely as a result of your efforts, but refusing to pay you a salary? Would the benefits of things like health insurance, perhaps a small apartment, a company car, etc be enough for your to forego a salary? Or would you still feel you were owed some of the revenue because you helped generate it for the company?

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No one is forcing them to play. The school has nothing to do with the Nil money. That’s between the athlete and a private business.