re: 7 Figure NIL Backing

I’ve said this before. Institute an NIL Cap on each team. If they want to exceed the cap, the university pays a hefty “luxury tax” back to the NCAA. This has turned college sports into professional sports, manage it the same way to keep some semblance of balance.

Hopefully they set it up as a public donation, too. That should easily hit another 1 million if it's publicized correctly.

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We went from "players can't afford a slice of pizza" to

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I remember reading Dale Brown's book and he mentioned taking the team to church and when the offering plate was passed, one of the players didn't have any money to drop in the plate so he "loaned" the player a couple bucks so that he wouldn't be embarrassed. Well, I guess we're way beyond that with NIL.

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$100k per scholarship player per season

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Who on earth is going to continue paying this when the kids transfer and opt out every year.

Time will tell that the market is simply not there to pay a kid that bides his time on the team to leave. Where is the return on investment?

The funniest part about this is that those who opposed NIL predicted it would devolve into this, and it wound up not even taking a full year to get to this point. Meanwhile you have idiots like Moscona, that make their living off of peoples interest in college sports, actively rooting for “player empowerment” but seem oblivious to the effect it is having on the audiences’ interest.

And here come the tigers finally

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The NCAA brought this upon themselves those greedy old men University Presidents, AD, Administration . They could have avoided all of this by agreeing to split the money with the athletes but they were so greedy everyone lost out now it’s a free for all bidding war .

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Give me a break. Title IX makes what you are proposing virtually impossible. Are you going to have across the board payments to every athlete on campus across all of D1? You realize this is why we don’t already have a pay for play revenue sharing system for college athletics, right? Schools are already losing money on half of their athletes who don’t play revenue-generating sports without paying them some kind of adjusted revenue sharing. Schools beyond the very top of the P5 could never afford what you are suggesting.

NIL may be an absolute shitshow right now, but it’s the only way to pay players above board in a way that matches the financial impact of the sports they play. It’s how you get around the forced equity of Title IX.

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That’s revenues not profit. They’ll have to reduce spending on other items in their budgets then (coaching, equipment, buildings, recruiting expenses, etc.). That’s suicide…

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Let them commit financial suicide. It has gotten ridiculous. They hate us and our beliefs but want our money.

Once it all falls apart financially and they have to choose between a real job, reality or a decent paycheck as a college athlete, reality will set it. We are in the wild Wild West of it right now but at some point, it’ll balance out. If it doesn’t, then oh well.

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Bama will give 125K per

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And then OKLA STATE will pay $200K....and so on.

NIL went form signing $15 autographs to massive welfare payments to already scholarshipped players!!!

They opened up a monsterous can of giant worms!!!!

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At this point why even pretend that they are college students.

Just acknowledge that they are revenue generating entertainment.

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They essentially are, but it’s not like they no longer have to stay eligible. Long overdue IMHO. “Amateurism” at major college programs has always been a farce. I know so many people HATE seeing college aged kids make money for providing them with entertainment while putting their body on the line, but life goes on.