(07-01-2021 04:35 AM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(07-01-2021 12:08 AM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  

(06-30-2021 09:10 PM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(06-30-2021 08:51 PM)BIGDTiger Wrote:  

(06-30-2021 07:13 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  We will see fewer athletic scholarships offered & a greater divide between halves & have nots. The NIL will prove to be good for a handful of athletes but bad for most… many who would not have the opportunity to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

Why would we see fewer athletic scholarships offered? Maybe there’s something I don’t know here, but This extra money will not be coming from the school. It will be coming from local businesses. And national entities through social media. Teenagers are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for dancing on TikTok. Gamers are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for letting people watch them play a video game.

I think this is amazing for our athletes that they finally get to jump in on this. Get tens of thousands of followers, and national and even worldwide entities will be paying these kids big bucks to post videos of them drinking their soft drink, or wearing their clothes, or listening to their music… I think it’s about time. And schools like Memphis in large cities will do very well under these new rules. under the current archaic system, there was nothing we could ever do to level the playing field. As a matter of fact the playing field was slanted against us. As a true conspiracy right in front of everyone of us. Keeping low class Joe (non power conference) down and high-class trust fund schools (power conference) up by funneling tens of millions of dollars to each school from the same television partners who only give us a few million dollars a year.

Now, there’s nothing keeping Memphis’ sponsors from being able to jump in and legally pay players. I love it. And how anyone at a small conference doesn’t like this is beyond me. Because now new money that was illegal as of yesterday is now legal today.

When the athletes end up getting the majority of the conference TV money, things are really going to get interesting.

Money would have to get rerouted. And that can’t happen until current tv contracts are up. I believe the more likely scenario is, the conferences continue to get their usual slice of the pie and we see a whole new industry, so to speak, for the players. NIL money will be coming from different sources. And most players will not get NIL money. Only the top players most likely. I honestly don’t understand why people are making such a big deal of this. All that’s changing, if I’m a college sports player, I can now be in commercials, have a jersey for sale, get paid for autographs and memorabilia and social media posts….the overall infrastructure of college sports and the NCAA will stay the same.

I’m a high school basketball coach. If it were legal, and a local gym wanted to pay one of my players to work out at their gym and be in
Commercials, in order to boost their enrollment, my player would rightfully make money, but my team/program would be unaffected. This is essentially what’s about to happen.

The NCAA is being a bit naive, though, when they say colleges can’t arrange or use the NIL rule to recruit players, lol. Can’t wait to see
the NCAA’s selective enforcement of that rule.

The TV money can most definitely be rerouted to the athletes whether or not the current contracts are up. If they lose this lawsuit, the NCAA (and the member schools as they are essentially the NCAA) will be paying out treble damages.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoda...7777027002

This is a much bigger deal than purported from your response.

I’m not gonna say this is a bad thing. Give them some of the money. Why wouldn’t the players deserve it?

I’m just not ready to predict the end of the NCAA or amateurism like many folks are. Adapt or die maybe? But if the NCAA and individual colleges are willing to adapt, they will be fine. The current system that they have benefited from for decades is akin to having free child labor in China.