re: Caleb Williams Deal with Beats Headphones Reportedly Worth $2.5M in 2022

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Now that that Pandora's Box has been opened, why couldn't the NFL, et. al with corporate backing, start a junior league and just annihilate the NCAA?

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They could, they just have no incentive to. They already have a fully functioning one available to them for free

Seems a lot for a shitty QB no one will know about.

Just wait until one of these hot shot freshmen gets a big deal and then under performs and gets benched or has playing time reduced. They will start bitching about the coaches hurting their marketability and cost them potential money. It’s going to happen sooner rather than later. How about that big mouth QB or RB who is full of himself and the OL decides to teach him some humility. That will happen also.

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It will be interesting to see how it changes the landscape.

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It wont change anything.

USC has always had this. Alabama will always spend anything it takes. Ohio State has 11 million people in the state willing to pay with one of the largest expenditures in the world and Battelle Institute two blocks from the stadium.

Its the reason these teams were powers before.

I hope that is the case.

But it already has unfortunately.

And until some measures are in place to make it a level landscape, it will be the Wild West.

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Based on the ncaa having 501 tax-exempt status, there has been a monetary fulcrum for investment in "lower level" pro athletes (i.e. a free farm system).

Now that has been altered.

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Not really tho. The schools status and structure didn’t really change. NIL is not actually tied to the schools technically.

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Basically every other country-- and most have a professional system of some sort in place for the sports popular within their culture-- you invest in people and they advance based on a minor-to-major league system (like MLB).

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And everyone of those countries and leagues would love it if some organization decided to take on the headache of managing those league, keeping those players happy, and developing them into pro ready prospects. The minor leagues are a massive headache for the MLB. Most of those leagues operate at a big loss in order to help funnel developed talent to the bigger organizations. NFL already has a risk free and cost free version of that, which operates independently.

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While I agree with you that major professional sports in America probably are not looking to capitalize on it right now (again playing devil's advocate), do you not think it is being discussed?

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You’re vastly underestimating the level of work, cost, and risk that would be involved in actually trying to overtake the NCAA in that space. Without the actual upside. Everything good for CFB gets funneled up as a positive for the NFL in one way or another, but if anything goes wrong (getting sued for not paying them, potential player unions in the future, managing this entire ecosystem of boasters/admin/coaches/ players) the NFL has no real skin in the game

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The ncaa is becoming more archaic with the times.

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Definitely. And there will be a new version of the NCAA that eliminates the tie to the governing body of the colleges eventually. It just won’t be the NFLs doing, instead it’ll be a collection of the top schools doing it because they don’t want to foot the bill for the rest of the schools anymore

Hence the word "reportedly".

My overall message is that these deals are not out of the realm of possibility for major market (including a town like Athens, GA which is 90 minutes from Atlanta) athletes.

All of that happens already.

Kids go off on Twitter about coaches

QBs and RBs have been full
Of themselves forever.

You don’t make it far as an OL getting your QB destroyed.

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When do you arbitrarily decide that the players are making too much money? Curious to what your line is

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How about they don’t get cash payments because they amateurs and they already have their living expenses covered in full by the universities they attend. If their family needs money so bad, tell them to get a job. 99.99% of all college athletes are a net drain on their universities, most of them substantially so. I’m here to cheer for my university, I don’t care about their personal struggles because the majority of them don’t even care about my alma mater, much less my problems. So in short, frick’em.

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Tim Tebow would have entered the transfer portal ahead of the 2008 season... that would have been interesting.

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There would have been nowhere for him to step up to… now the top guys at FCS and G5 schools would have made bank