re: Would you support a fan supported NIL cooperative, if it helped LSU land more talent?

Good players help create a good product on the field that fans want to pay for and cheer for. They should be given a cut of the profits. It’s basic capitalism. Watch what happens to the ticket sales and athletic revenue if all the good players leave lol.

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No. LSU makes enough money and I am not paying college athletes that already get a free education, housing, meals, tutoring while other kids can’t even afford to go to college anymore without significant loans

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No. It shows a lot of us don’t care to pay over pampered athletes to play school for not only free but get paid while others are struggling to to survive their way financially through school. Many of these other people if not most will make more important contributions to the betterment of the world than these kids will, but our investment should be in them and not a kid that may help in finding cures for deadly diseases, developing ground breaking technologies in computing, manufacturing and energy. Nope, we need to pay for a kid to live in a penthouse while playing school. A kid that with almost 99% certainty will do nothing else meaningful towards the greater society once done.

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Dude…? Seriously? These kids give back so much to our state and the Tiger faithful. Sure, they are largely self-important, narcissistic assholes that may or may not be able to read and write, but this is important! Hell, I just had to break the news to my 17 y/o that I liquidated the entirety of his 529 and savings account to donate to “Bayou traditions”. He’ll have to take out a high interest rate student loan and fend for himself. He’ll probably be in debt up to his eyeballs for the remainder of his life, but Nabers, Skenes, Livvy and such are getting MY money, damn it! Should we expect them to slum it like the rest of us? No! They deserve this! I’m in it to win a championship.