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re: NIL is not free market capitalism
Posted on 12/16/21 at 5:13 pm to Ghostface_Killa
Posted on 12/16/21 at 5:13 pm to Ghostface_Killa
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If this was to happen. No one would give a dog shite about LSU or Alabama. It’s about the players. People want to see the best players play each other.
Right. The Bama and LSU alums are going to attend games for Troy instead because they’re a top 5 team.
bullshite…
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Posted on 12/16/21 at 5:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
I won’t disagree with your thoughts on how it always was at LSU.
I had a geography class with Glen Davis. I didn’t know this until about halfway through the semester when I walked in and he was sitting in my customary spot by the back door. All he did was scroll through highlights on a website the school made for him to promote him for the Wooden Award or something. The girl next to him liked it. When we walked out, Andy Katz and an ESPN camera crew were there. That’s the only time he was in that class.
With that said, if you think it’s the same now as it was 15 years ago, you’re wrong. Now that money can legally change hands, the amounts will become higher and higher, further allowing money schools to get blue chip athletes.
I had a geography class with Glen Davis. I didn’t know this until about halfway through the semester when I walked in and he was sitting in my customary spot by the back door. All he did was scroll through highlights on a website the school made for him to promote him for the Wooden Award or something. The girl next to him liked it. When we walked out, Andy Katz and an ESPN camera crew were there. That’s the only time he was in that class.
With that said, if you think it’s the same now as it was 15 years ago, you’re wrong. Now that money can legally change hands, the amounts will become higher and higher, further allowing money schools to get blue chip athletes.
Posted on 12/16/21 at 5:21 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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Regardless of your opinion on NIL or pay for play, the take that NIL is the “free market at work” is asinine.
The value of these athletes is derived from being attached to the universities they play for. Those universities, public and private, are government supported. If the universities were exclusively for-profit businesses, they would not have boosters lining up to pay athletes to play for their alma mater.
The price of NIL deals are determined by those willing to pay said NIL deals and the price at which players are willing to accept NIL deals for their name, image or likeness. That's almost the definition of a free market. The only thing not making it a free market is that you have to report the deals through the University and NCAA for regulation.
Your argument that their NIL is boosted by playing for a large public university with built-in fans doesn't affect whether or not the market is free. The value of the NIL is based on exposure and it is common sense that exposure is going to be larger at a larger university. It's like a player choosing to go to a big market team vs. a small market team because their brand value can increase dramatically in a large market.
Posted on 12/16/21 at 5:49 pm to castorinho
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and why do you think owners do that?
Because they want to compete. Why else? And boosters want to compete. That is why the NIL "market" is not going to "stabilize", in my opinion.
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