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Post by villagepub on Jan 27, 2022 15:01:52 GMT -6
Someone give me a call. I can still broker this deal...  |
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 27, 2022 16:24:48 GMT -6
What pisses me off is how the NCAA totally cocked this up. Now taxpayers are subsidizing the tuition of kids making bank (some of them, a lot of bank). What the NCAA SHOULD have done is institute a rule that if you sign an NIL for any amount, you are ineligible for an athletic scholarship. You would still count towards the max number of schollies the team can carry, but you have to pay your own way. Maybe some kind of graduated income tax type deal. Mid major schools where a kid gets pocket money on top of a scholarship, maybe that's the original idea.
But I don't know that there is a good solution. The NIL will be small at so many schools, and large for a very few players.
Plus the big schools with potential for the big bank and especially where the best players are not even there for 4 years, the scholarship money may not be that important to the kid anyway.
A cap on NIL of some kind maybe is a good step. The idea kids have a right to make money is one thing, that the money can be grotesque is worrisome, bound to lead to recruiting abuses as jburton pointed out.
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Post by jburton on Jan 27, 2022 17:22:47 GMT -6
From a personal standpoint, this might ruin college sports for me. A handful of elite universities with steep sports traditions will pay for the best athletes that money can buy... Half the schools in the SEC, USC, UCLA, oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Duke in basketball, Kentucky in basketball... I'm not interested in watching another professional League that will squeeze out all of the mid majors. It's hard enough with the new transfer rules... Kinda like the New York Yankees.
It's the transfer rule combined with the NIL contracts that make it so jacked up. The mid major level will be delegated to a developmental League where your best players are Cherry picked and offered cash to transfer.
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 27, 2022 18:59:27 GMT -6
Yes...
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jan 27, 2022 19:28:46 GMT -6
Yep your right
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Jan 28, 2022 7:10:46 GMT -6
A handful of elite universities with steep sports traditions will pay for the best athletes that money can buy... So, nothing will change. |
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 28, 2022 9:24:13 GMT -6
A handful of elite universities with steep sports traditions will pay for the best athletes that money can buy... So, nothing will change. It will change for the worse. Mid majors will be farm clubs for majors with easy transfer and a bidding war that includes NIL which no mid major can match. |
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Post by jburton on Jan 28, 2022 10:10:25 GMT -6
In general, it might be fun to see how your mid major team competes with other mid major teams, but it's pointless to schedule high level teams, worry about strength of schedule or think about postseason games which will only draw more attention from the poachers.
Even then there will be mid major teams that can pull together enough money to be more competitive than others (like mid major schools in large towns).
Good players will turn into primadonna's, demanding the ball and being more concerned with padding their stats to build their value than whether their team wins.
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 28, 2022 10:34:19 GMT -6
If we want to imagine negative consequences it is easy. Obviously this will give schools in big TV markets and with large alumni bases some extra appeal to advertisers who will be willing to pony up NIL money to attract a great player to that school.
Granted the big money will be to the schools with the most attractive national TV audience available to them which could well be at schools which have the best conference affiliation and a well established national brand already. Surely that would be true at first.
But a school in a large market like NY, LA, Chicago might break out. A big company might want "branded athletes" in all those big markets. It may be that leads to "lesser" but still very lucrative NIL opportunities for some schools that are located in big markets, but not national brands already, and now not all that attractive to TV. Then with the better talent they might get better national attention too.
I can see the advertisers jumping into AAU sponsorship to "develop" players to be associated with their brand. And of course ultimately control their recruitment. That's all we need is more muscle to AAU programs!
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