re: BayouTraditions and similar NIL “collectives” are offensive.

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It always amazes me that people who want amateur sports can justify the huge TV contracts that go to fund the huge salaries of coaches, AD's, conference officials, etc.and still call that amateur. Cancel all the tv contracts, live on what you earn from paid attendance, then you can really be an amateur. Of course it would all go broke then and we wouldn't have to worry about it. And of course there were already "collectives". It's just that they were used to pay coaches and not players.
Hypocrisy everywhere SNAFU!!

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This is a whole lot of ignorance. We're talking about the players being amateurs, not the coaches. The coaches are running an entire program, which makes them professionals. And if it weren't for TV deals and all of those things, players wouldn't have all of the nice things they've grown accustomed to, like athletic scholarships, training facilities, locker rooms that resemble a palace, etc.

And no, collectives did not always exist. We know there was corruption and money under the table, but the fact that it was not legal meant that there was far less money being thrown around. There were plenty of boosters who would not be willing to get involved in something like that before. But now, it's open season, and it's become a free agent market.