What we have is apples and oranges. Coaches are professionals in their field and have gone to school to earn the right to persue their profession. Athletes are students that are still learning their professional futures and receive benefits (scholarships, room and board, publicity, tutoring etc.). They are not professionals and that is where the lines get crossed.
Are you going to pay a medical student as a doctor before he or she finishes school?
This is the beginning of the end of college sports as we knew it. No loyalty, just a chase for the almighty dollar and they won’t be getting any of mine.

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Posted by mcspufftiger7

Member since Oct 2020

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Posted on 12/29/23 at 9:35 am to LCBayou

I am not against players transferring but I agree NIL has changed the reasons for the transferring and it is out of control right now. It is also degrading the character of a lot of young men to stand by a commitment and battle for a position and overcome adversity. If you run from the challenges in life it will only make you weaker. But anyone who doesn't think the college game is heading the way of the NFL is in denial.

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Posted by doubleb

Baton Rouge

Member since Aug 2006

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Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:39 am to LCBayou

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What we have is apples and oranges. Coaches are professionals in their field and have gone to school to earn the right to persue their profession

True

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Athletes are students that are still learning their professional futures and receive benefits (scholarships, room and board, publicity, tutoring etc.).

So they aren’t professionals, but they are vehicles used by the universities to make money and they have been compensated to a certain extent for decades.

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They are not professionals and that is where the lines get crossed.

The line has never been impenetrable. At one time players got an allowance. They have received room and board. Of course elaborate under the tables systems paid players. Market forces couldn’t be completely eliminated.

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Are you going to pay a medical student as a doctor before he or she finishes school?

Don’t universities have better scholarships than others? Don’t they try to entice the best prospects?

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This is the beginning of the end of college sports as we knew it. No loyalty, just a chase for the almighty dollar and they won’t be getting any of mine.

The end? No, but yes huge changes. Got the better? I don’t think so, but it isn’t because of the players. It’s because of the money.

Schools deciding to play big games off campus for a big check. Schools teeing it off at 11:00 am. Schools dropping their rivals, schools changing conferences, schools going all in for the big pay check. That’s what is wrecking the game.

This post was edited on 12/29/23 at 1:20 pm

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Posted by dimet

North Carolina

Member since Feb 2009

190 posts

Posted on 12/29/23 at 11:54 am to LCBayou

The NCAA was woefully unprepared for this tidal wave called NIL. They have abdicated responsibility for governance and that misstep has allowed this change. I played D1 football and was a GA at a D1 program and my experience told me that a. if you were on scholly and the staff wanted to get rid of you, it could be done and b. rarely was that divorce pleasant with very few options for the player. The NIL and transfer rules allow some recourse for the those athletes. I can't imagine an 18 year making more than his position coach, but hey, that's college football today. If Lane Kiffin says that college football has become unrestricted free agency, we ought to listen.

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