re: UF’s Jack Pyburn’s NIL demands

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I get your point but I think you’re wrong here

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No chance. Players always want other players to get the bag. It’s better for them all

It doesn't sound like he's an NFL prospect and if he made it, it wouldn't be for long. I guess you have to try and get the money now. I wonder if he knows the government is going to take 50% of the 45K?

FWIW I saw a post that said NIL agents are taking 20% of the deal. For reference,Marketing agents take 10% and NFL agents take 1-3%.

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The NFL, MLB, NBA, etc are ALL monopolies than cannot legally exist in the US without an antitrust exemption. The leagues get that antitrust exemption through collective bargaining between management/ownership and labor (i.e. the players). Those rules have all be negotiated and agreed to by both sides.

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I don’t think that’s true. I’m pretty sure the only league with an antitrust exemption is MLB. The rest aren’t protected.


These aren’t contracts and these players aren’t getting paid based on NIL. 99% of them have zero NIL value. shite most actual pros in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL etc have little to no actual NIL value.


These are straight up bribes to come play for “my” school. Makes what Christian Dawkins did seem childish.
5 years ago-FBI wiretaps, you go to federal prison.
Today - do the exact same thing, it’s fine

Who knew the best post grad jobs back in 2023 were crypto brokers and NIL agents

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Hell, there's no need to put in "guaranteed to play on 3rd down" and "more snaps in the rotation".

Uh, son... if we are paying you $45,000 a month to play football here, you will play on every snap of every down on BOTH sides of the ball.

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Question about the 45k a month… is that just during the football season or 12 months a year?

That’s a half million plus if it’s for 12 months

Did you think playing football for no money was more
similar to the real world workplace?

Maybe the schools should simply stop accepting transfers and then these guys would stay because they have no where to go. This isn’t societies fault. It’s the schools who want to win just like paying guys under the table. Just stop it all. Recruit kids out of high school and then win or lose with them. Losing isn’t he end of the world, but it’s us fans who jump all over coaches who do t win enough. Look at Napier as a perfect example. He’s a decent enough coach that most here have been making fun of him for years because he hasn’t won enough games? How stupid is that. Kirby has had people around his program die yet he’s a genius because he buys enough players to win a few more games, It’s a joke because the schools let this crap happen,

Coaches can’t coach or discipline players.

Coaches are also distracted with way more bullshite than the past having to manage and re-recruit their entire roster every year, recruit HS kids and also track other players in portal to recruit.

None of it is good and definitely doesn’t make a better product on the field.

The fans do not demand it. About 20 teams fans demand their coaches lie, cheat, and steal to win. The rest don’t. You don’t see Arkansas, Virginia, Boise, and 100 other schools fans freaking out when they lose. It’s about 20 schools that have fans who are totally out of control. The rest of the schools and fans enjoy the sport but don’t poison trees or get in fist fights because our team goes 6-6. It happens.

As a fan of one of these mid pack teams, I love NIL because it stripped away the major advantage those 20 teams had for decades being able to buy players with little competition.

We should all applaud Napier for telling this player to kick rocks. But the problem is some coach who pose fanbase will destroy him if he doesn’t win will absolutely take in this player and yet no one will say a thing. Maybe the shame should shift from the school losing a player to the school signing the player. For all the poaching a school like Ole Miss has done the last 3 years, where has it gotten them? No where.