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re: Is it Realistic that an NIL contract REQUIRE players to play in ALL games?
Posted on 12/31/23 at 9:00 am to tigerfan in bamaland
Posted on 12/31/23 at 9:00 am to tigerfan in bamaland
No. That would be a pay-for-play contract. The payment for use of the player’s Name, Image, and/or Likeness. Not performance. Now, is the payment used as an inducement for the player to play with a certain school? Of course. But the contract can’t specify such.
Agreed. It’s the most meaningless “postseason” in all of sports. The players just finally figured that out. Plus, it’s a great example of more is not better.
40-50 years ago there were relatively few bow games. So reaching one was an accomplishment. But, ESPN saw bowls as an opportunity to create programming. So more and more we’re created. Now something like 70% of teams make a bowl game. It’s more difficult to NOT reach a bowl game.
People don’t like change. But they’ll soon find the expanded playoff will be great! Whatever bowl games survive should be viewed as what they’ve long been. Glorified exhibition games that are fun to watch, but have little bearing on anything
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I don’t understand clinging to this bowl system. Let it go. Unnecessary.
Agreed. It’s the most meaningless “postseason” in all of sports. The players just finally figured that out. Plus, it’s a great example of more is not better.
40-50 years ago there were relatively few bow games. So reaching one was an accomplishment. But, ESPN saw bowls as an opportunity to create programming. So more and more we’re created. Now something like 70% of teams make a bowl game. It’s more difficult to NOT reach a bowl game.
People don’t like change. But they’ll soon find the expanded playoff will be great! Whatever bowl games survive should be viewed as what they’ve long been. Glorified exhibition games that are fun to watch, but have little bearing on anything
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Posted on 12/31/23 at 10:56 am to Alt26
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Plus, it’s a great example of more is not better.
if only people understood that when it came to the playoffs.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:01 pm to Alt26
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Agreed. It’s the most meaningless “postseason” in all of sports. The players just finally figured that out. Plus, it’s a great example of more is not better.
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But, ESPN saw bowls as an opportunity to create programming
It’s like you have all the information you need, but can’t put it together. It’s not meaningless if it is profitable, the players that are most interested in seeing a share of the profit are making them actually meaningless.
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But they’ll soon find the expanded playoff will be great!
With larger conferences that cannot even play eachother much less out of conference games, and no bowl games to judge those conferences against each other, how are we going to avoid shitty matchups? How are we ensuring that the best teams get in?
People don’t like change, you are right. They especially don’t like when things they like get changed, without explaining why they may like it more.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:34 pm to Alt26
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Agreed. It’s the most meaningless “postseason” in all of sports.
By this measure the bowl games except for the top handful were always “meaningless”. And if only playoff games have meaning now, then most regular season games are also “meaningless”.
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