re: Per Kirby: recruits are getting up to 20k per month to not decommit

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pay the players! they said the schools are greedy and this should have been done a long time ago! they said these kids DESERVE it! they said sure hope yall enjoy this dystopian hellscape of a sport we're left with now.

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They did deserve to be paid, but by the schools. The schools are STILL trying to have their cake and eat it too

I think its hilarious that the coach of one of the teams with a NIL budget in the top 5 if not top 3 in the sport is almost constantly complaining about NIL and the portal

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Our WR coach is exactly why we get those highly rated receivers and as long as he’s there that train isn’t stopping.

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Ok well you’re 1 school

I have a lot of respect for Kirby. While we are on opposites of an in state rivalry, Kirby used what the NCAA turned a blind eye to and built a complete roster at UGA. He took what he learned from Saban and used it to build UGA. The portal and NIL has completely destroyed that model. 4 star bench players portaled out to get starter money elsewhere. Recruits who normally would be easy gets at UGA now being picked off a few at a time. That adds up. So even though the Bama’s and UGA’s still have highly ranked classes the rankings aren’t comparable to years past. And half the class will portal out the first time they get their feelings hurt by a coach or lack perceived playing time.

For schools in the average middle this has been a huge positive course of action that enables them to get players that would never have given them a look in the past. So I totally understand Kirby’s mindset. We’ll see how a good a coach he actually is now that he won’t have the huge talent disparity he is use to having.

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The athletes don’t give a shite about the school. They don’t walk the same halls we did. They don’t chow down next to you in a dining hall. They don’t struggle through a test the same way we did. A huge chunk of football and basketball players aren’t real students. But hell, lets give them some course credits, chef prepared meals, premier training facilities, private academic instruction, constant promotion on social media. It’s great for the game…

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That's been going for like 25 years at this point. Don't think NIL has anything to do with it, other than upping the scale

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pay the players! they said
the schools are greedy and this should have been done a long time ago! they said
these kids DESERVE it! they said

sure hope yall enjoy this dystopian hellscape of a sport we're left with now.

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The entire reason it's a shite storm now is the the NCAA (which was created by and run by the member schools) fought pay for play tooth and nail and refused to come up w/any kind of plan to set up rules for payment.

The greedy schools are still the major problem here just like they were before NIL. They want to get in on the all money streams but don't want to actually be the people who pay the players who are the reason the money comes in first place. Stop falling for their propaganda blaming the players when they could have easily had all this shite sussed out decades ago had they not been such gigantic babies about the reality of what major CFB and CBB had already become.

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I was told they just wanted to make a little pocket money signing autographs so they could afford to take their girlfriend to Applebee's and shite.

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This is what is was supposed to be.

It got out of control along with everything else in the world involving covid and the blm riots... saying the players were slaves and all that, never valuing education only looking for another reason to be a victim for the noble cause. These guys before NIL in the big conferences weren't going hungry... they got everything given to them for free. I blame the NCAA for letting this spiral way out of control. They handled this way wrong and look where we at.

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his is bullshite. I had players at D2 schools that were getting paid. Every team paid, maybe to different degrees, but they were all doing underhanded stuff.

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Yeah I know and that’s arguing about semantics but the point remains. There was an imbalance in enforcement and certain schools were willing to give crazy amounts and “cheat” to win. Because thats what it comes down to. It’s legal now and nobody fears repercussion. Get over it.

ETA: the hand-wringing over how this has ruined sports is hilarious. Everyone can see it’s mostly fans of a short list of schools