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Billionaires buying recruits
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:15 pm
This Michigan shite had me thinking what if Elon Musk bought a college and started buying all the best recruits. Then I found out he is already starting a college in Austin. He is only worth 326 billion. He could pay every player 2-3 million a year for the rest of his life and never miss the money. He could name them the X-Raiders.
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Posted on 11/26/24 at 8:21 pm to SupermanSlim
Technically he could. As a 17 year old kid, it would be stupid to not take big money offers
Posted on 11/27/24 at 2:04 pm to SupermanSlim
It has to stop
Posted on 11/27/24 at 2:40 pm to SupermanSlim
LSU needs start recruiting Saudi students, develop the passion for P&G, and then let them get behind the NIL offers like the LIV golf tour.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:29 am to SupermanSlim
The current NIL system would allow for a super rich person or corporation to dominate college football and use it for commercial advertisement. Imagine 5-6 super teams that buy the top 100 players every year. They will dominate college football every year and charge premium advertisement prices. We may be at the beginning stages of college football becoming a corporate shite show.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:27 pm to SupermanSlim
LSU should have matched Michigan's 10.5M offer. Kelly knew he would lose our QB but he did nothing. Where would you go somewhere for 6.5M or home state for 10.5M?
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:38 pm to SupermanSlim
Sounds like the Yankees or Dodgers. Eventually, there will need to be team salary caps.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:40 pm to Woodman
So then the payments go back under the table? There’s no putting this toothpaste back in the tube.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 9:13 pm to SupermanSlim
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The current NIL system would allow for a super rich person or corporation to dominate college football and use it for commercial advertisement. Imagine 5-6 super teams that buy the top 100 players every year. They will dominate college football every year and charge premium advertisement prices. We may be at the beginning stages of college football becoming a corporate shite show.
That’s why it won’t keep happening. This is the Wild West right now. There will be caps eventually. I also don’t expect boosters having to foot the bill forever. It’s fricking stupid. One day we’re going to look back on the 2020s and say we were all retards
Posted on 11/29/24 at 7:33 am to TN Tygah
Idk. How can you cap a players ability to use his own name and likeness?
It there isn’t a solution, college sports will be ripe for corporate takeover.
It there isn’t a solution, college sports will be ripe for corporate takeover.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 7:45 am to SupermanSlim
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How can you cap a players ability to use his own name and likeness?
I don't know, but it shouldn't be about paying high school athletes to attend certain universities. Even the pros have cap limitations. This is absolutely insane.
Think about this. Professional sports have more of a competitive balance when it comes to contracts than college.
The contacts need to be specified differently. I am not sure how, but it does help that there is a transfer portal and you can leave without sitting now.
Maybe they should somehow restrict the deals until after you are a certain age. I know there will always be workarounds. You could flunk on purpose to be older here, but at least establish something better.
I'm not sure the solution, but I am sure there will be some kind of idea that many can get behind.
I don't see how this is sustainable outside of a very select few with big money. It's sad LSU can devote 2-3 years to a guy only to lose him last second, because the amount of money is too much to pass on. No relationship with them. Straight up pay to attend.
Definitely can't assume even top local guys that you might pay will come, because somebody else can just buy them last second as well.
This post was edited on 11/29/24 at 7:48 am
Posted on 11/29/24 at 8:24 am to SupermanSlim
The way it is now, I hope the saudis do get involved with Texas State or Coastal Carolina and dominate.
If there aren’t gonna be rules, then burn it all down
If there aren’t gonna be rules, then burn it all down
Posted on 11/29/24 at 8:57 am to SupermanSlim
I know it's still relatively early in the NIL era, but there hasn't been a team that has successfully bought a team and won. Several have tried (aTm and Ole Miss come to mind) and have failed. We will see if tOSU, UT and Oregon change that, but I'm not convinced that buying guys will get you there. It seems like the guys who get paid aren't as committed and make "business decisions" as soon as they face adversity. These players are still kids who are immature and haven't learned the professionalism and accountability that is required for real professional football for the most part. I like the idea that Kelly wants to get the right guys, but I'm as frustrated as everyone else that has watched this all time class fall apart because of crazy NIL deals. I can't figure out how this works successfully.
This post was edited on 11/29/24 at 8:59 am
Posted on 11/29/24 at 9:08 am to beauchristopher
I agree. I just don’t know how it can be legally fixed at this point. NIL and the transfer portal equates to a renewable free agency with no salary cap. Big money can completely take over college athletics and make the big name programs of today into afterthoughts. Nothing is stopping billionaires or corporations from buying colleges or starting new ones and bringing in all the best talent. It would actually be profitable for them because they can control their advertisement, keep ticket sales, concessions, tv contracts etc without funneling that money into huge college libraries and expensive professor pensions. They could operate a mostly online university with little expenses other than the athletics.
I hope I’m wrong about all this. But this guy from Michigan with 230 billion and others like him will realize that they can profit off of college sports and not just donate money into them. They can essentially own their own professional sports franchise
I hope I’m wrong about all this. But this guy from Michigan with 230 billion and others like him will realize that they can profit off of college sports and not just donate money into them. They can essentially own their own professional sports franchise
Posted on 11/29/24 at 9:14 am to SupermanSlim
This will be a pattern......arrogant cash pigs will flex their muscles and throw money around to show off.
They do it in politics, and they will do it in athletics....
They do it in politics, and they will do it in athletics....
Posted on 11/29/24 at 9:17 am to BTRtoIAH
I believe I am being naive when it comes to college football. The SEC earnings is 777.8 million, so that being said, paying the players a percentage of this sum does seem reasonable. I see where revenue sharing concept would be beneficial. Now the thing is how does NIL, and scholarships and all that fit it. I think a financial cap limiting each school to a set amount would level the playing field. Like NFL salary cap. NIL really is not NIL it is more free agency buying a players services. I do not like it, wish it had never happened but you can not unring the bell. It is this way until some rules and regulations change the way things are. Now recruiting is primarily about the $$$ . Schools, Coaches, facilities, etc are secondary to the $. I am not blaming the athletes. If some school NIL is offering millions to a 17 year old, he would be wise to accept the offer. The structuring is going to have to be approved by the courts. Otherwise a law suit could undo all the efforts to bring sanity back to college football.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 9:23 am to SupermanSlim
Man I’m gonna push my 1st grader into college football. He doesn’t even have to make it to play a down of college football but if he’s a five star out of high school I am set for life. Me and the rest of the family will live debt free.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 9:24 am to TigerPlate
A law would have to change things to make NIL illegal in college sports.
As of now it’s still illegal for a school to pay an athlete, but it is happening in the wide open under the name “NIL”. No one is even pretending that it’s anything else. The NCAA has made no attempt to crack down on these obvious recruiting violations and soon they won’t be able to at all. If corporations start Investing in college sports ownership, the NCAA will lose power. Once enough corporate teams exist, they can leave the NCAA all together, taking the very best athletes with them.
As of now it’s still illegal for a school to pay an athlete, but it is happening in the wide open under the name “NIL”. No one is even pretending that it’s anything else. The NCAA has made no attempt to crack down on these obvious recruiting violations and soon they won’t be able to at all. If corporations start Investing in college sports ownership, the NCAA will lose power. Once enough corporate teams exist, they can leave the NCAA all together, taking the very best athletes with them.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 10:23 am to SupermanSlim
Back to the old days of the southwest conference. Except it was millionaires.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 10:31 am to atxfan
Saudi blood money fueling the football program! What a great idea
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