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“There’s gotta be some leadership at the very top that kind of cleans all of this up,” Aikman said. “Starting with players that accept money. There’s gotta be some accountability and responsibility on their behalf, to have to stick to a program.

“I gave money to a kid, I won’t mention who. I’ve done it one time at UCLA, never met the young man. He was there a year, he left after the year. I wrote a sizable check, and he went to another school. I didn’t even get so much as a thank you note. So, it’s one of those deals, to where I’m done with NIL. I want to see UCLA be successful, but I’m done with it.”

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Beauw•40 min

Good for him.

HarryBalzack•2 hours

The B1G will never go for regulating it. Money is about the only chance they have to compete against schools that aren't freezing half the year.

cajunmud•2 hours

He didn't know he was just renting the kid for a year?

Lease is up...

TulsaSooner78•2 hours

Private equity firms won't care about "thank you" letters.

lenlews•2 hours

frick them kids

Ssubba•3 hours

Kids should earn a set amount with caps generated from revenue (tickets, tv deals, etc) and legit NIL (commercials) only.

diat150•5 hours

What’s crazy to me is all the schools willingly gave up their power

Havoc•9 hours

I guess I’m naive but I thought NIL required some exchange of service, like being in an ad or commercial or public appearance, in exchange for the money, not just throwing money to players with nothing to show for it.

Rex Feral•4 hours

Yes, you're naive.

TouchdownTony•2 hours

Yes, that was the intention. What most of us knew was the money would be fronted and the players would get X millions of dollars for making a 15 second ad. There is nothing that restricts what a player can be paid. College football is in a bad place right now and I don't see it getting better.

RFK•14 hours

People forget Troy transferred from UCLA to Oklahoma…

Da #1 Stunna•13 hours

Actually, it happened in reverse of that. He hated playing for Switzer and left to play for Neuheisel and got drafted #1 overall out of UCLA.

TulsaSooner78•2 hours

That is bullshite. He got his leg broke and couldn't play. His replacement (Jamelle Holieway) came in and led the Sooners to a national championship. After that, Switzer called Troy Donahue and facilitated Aikman's transfer to UCLA.

grizzlylongcut•15 hours

Imagine your hair being so fricking long and unkempt you couldn’t even put a hat on. Yet we should give untold amounts of money to those people?

Privateer 2007•15 hours

Only a total cuck would pay a college athlete.

TheRouxGuru•3 hours

Holy shite that was suck a zinger because you used the word ‘cuck’!!!! What is this place’s obsession with this word?

TheRouxGuru•3 hours

Such***

JackieTreehorn•3 hours

It's the 300 lb XXXL windsuit wearing fans who think they are part of the team. lol pathetic men

Cherry Cheesecake•16 hours

What did Troy expect? He's the fool for giving a large sum of money to some teenager.

Fightin Okra•16 hours

NIL meant to award players for the use their name, image, or likeness, not to buy players to attend a school

FaCubeItches•16 hours

Nah, it was *sold* as compensation for name, image, and likeness; it was always *intended* as a means to buy players. An awful lot of people get to wet their beak on that stuff.

CajunBullet•17 hours

This is what happens when you start paying some of these disrespectful college football players. They show no appreciation and or respect for trying to help them!

saintsfan22•16 hours

Nobody is trying to help. They're paying for their services.

kywildcatfanone•18 hours

No one should contribute to nil

Turnblad85•14 hours

hopefully all schools except LSU follow this lead.

HagaDaga•5 hours

I wonder what all the "they deserve to get paid" advocates think about the path college sports has gone. People just can't see past their nose.

TheRouxGuru•3 hours

None of the ‘they deserve to get paid’ advocates have forked over a single dollar to NIL

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6R12•20 hours

Legit move. We were told yesterday that one of the guys was using his NIL to pay his alimony to his baby moma.

Datbayoubengal•2 hours

Im pretty sure that was supposed to be a joke. Also, if he was paying alimony, how old was the kid when he got married? That's crazy that the courts even allowed alimony to be taken from a barely 20 year old.