From the Yahoo post:

“There are some concerning trends,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told Yahoo Finance. “We're not seeing name image and likeness activity — we're seeing just straight payments. And I think it's important that we recenter ourselves on what's supposed to be happening here and the desire to keep that activity out of recruitment to benefit young people economically but to do so in a healthy way.”


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-commi...26956.html

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m not upset.

Welcome to the party, pal.

Things are severely upside down. College Football at the top right now is more a reflection of bag man strength than football prowess.

We've come a long way since a player saw his name on the back of a jersey in a video game. Lawyers got involved and made a mountain out of a mole hill.
The small stipend was a good idea since the NCAA rules didn't allow a scholarship player to have a job, but what we are evolving into will completely alter college athletics.
I have to disagree with you CJ. I'm upset because the "solution" has been to expand the problem.

When NC State hired Chuck Amato for too much money, they allowed him to spend (for the first time ever) over a million dollars on his football staff. No other college in the USA had ever had an assistants payroll over $1 Million. Of course is was big news in North Carolina and John Bunting went to the University to get raises for his staff to be over the $1 million mark as to not be outdone by NC State.....the race had expanded from the head coaches to the assistants. During the same time frame "media rights fees" started to explode and now the networks joined the administrators at throwing money at athletics.

Now you don't see young coaches go into lower level positions with the intention to stay. You rarely find that old high school coach that has dedicated his life to coaching teamwork and discipline, but only winning and moving up the coaching ladder so that he can get more money at a bigger program.

Why wouldn't the players want some of the "action" too? It's understandable, everybody around them is getting paid.
It's madness with no end in sight. That's the part that I find upsetting.

(05-22-2022 08:14 AM)XLance Wrote:  We've come a long way since a player saw his name on the back of a jersey in a video game. Lawyers got involved and made a mountain out of a mole hill.
The small stipend was a good idea since the NCAA rules didn't allow a scholarship player to have a job, but what we are evolving into will completely alter college athletics.
I have to disagree with you CJ. I'm upset because the "solution" has been to expand the problem.

When NC State hired Chuck Amato for too much money, they allowed him to spend (for the first time ever) over a million dollars on his football staff. No other college in the USA had ever had an assistants payroll over $1 Million. Of course is was big news in North Carolina and John Bunting went to the University to get raises for his staff to be over the $1 million mark as to not be outdone by NC State.....the race had expanded from the head coaches to the assistants. During the same time frame "media rights fees" started to explode and now the networks joined the administrators at throwing money at athletics.

Now you don't see young coaches go into lower level positions with the intention to stay. You rarely find that old high school coach that has dedicated his life to coaching teamwork and discipline, but only winning and moving up the coaching ladder so that he can get more money at a bigger program.

Why wouldn't the players want some of the "action" too? It's understandable, everybody around them is getting paid.
It's madness with no end in sight. That's the part that I find upsetting.

Nobody is asking why it became a thing. People don't want to wrap their minds around the enormity of it. Corporations buy elections to wield power for perks and support of favorable tariffs, treaties, and to appoint favorable judges. NIL gives them a way to control the competitiveness of sports and therefore outcomes so they can massage profits and maximize markets and control the narrative audiences are forced to endure while watching their networks.

From opportunities for employment, to your school's narrative in education, to the media, and in elections, and in your leisure life whether mode of travel, resorts, theme parks, any sports event, gaming, or watching the tube these overlords are in our lives, surveilling it, using our private preferences against us.

Sports, particularly college sports, was the last reasonably corporate free environment we had. They are willing to pay athletes to control that too. Just wait and watch, NIL money will be pulled from any school which decides not to support a corporate agenda whatever it may be. Displease your overlords and your alma mater will be prominent in nothing, and thus they will completely control the narrative. It's not about paying players. It's about control and it is why the SCOTUS which is controlled by corporate money via the nomination process will be all about pay for play. When everyone is paid, who writes the checks is where all power resides.

Lance I don’t like the “new world of college athletics” either. I am, however, not upset when a conference that had been notorious for Sending Extra Cash to recruits complains other recruiters are paying players.

Louisville lost a player to Alabama. It was all over social media that he was going to Alabama before he entered the transfer portal. Saban claimed they didn’t tamper but the kid ends up in Tuscaloosa. Once it got out, he was no longer welcome with the Alabama program.

A Louisville player, Jordan Watkins, still on the roster, was seen at lunch with Kentucky’s lead football recruiter, Vince Marrow. A day or so later Watkins enters the transfer portal. By that time his lunch with Marrow is all over social media, so Kentucky backed off and Watkins ended up at Ole Miss.

It’s disingenuous at best for any football coach, in any conference, to complain about the NIL. It’s the closest thing we’ve had to a level recruiting field. How else does Louisville get the Number 1 Running Back in the ‘23 class to cancel at June 17th OV trip to Georgia and visit UofL that day instead.

The way it’s looking now every athlete at UofL with have some type of NIL
agreement. We have a women’s basketball player who makes 100K per sponsored tweet.

NIL is giving an urban school like UofL, in a city like Louisville, where college athletics are treated like professional sports by the corporations with dollars to spend, a real advantage.

I’m not sure what kind of deals our NIL Department is putting together for athletes but they have to be impressive. Louisville just beat out Florida for the #2 player in the Transfer portal. (Florida law apparently some how limits NIL some way)

It’s a different world out there now.

Personally I would like to see college athletes be forced to wear logos of their sponsors like NASCAR drivers. That way we’ll know who bought and paid for them. It would certainly be eye opening in the SEC and Big Ten.

Separating sports and academia have been long overdue.

(05-22-2022 06:05 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  NIL is giving an urban school like UofL, in a city like Louisville, where college athletics are treated like professional sports by the corporations with dollars to spend, a real advantage.

https://twitter.com/JohnHRuiz/status/152...4961489920

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(05-22-2022 06:05 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  NIL is giving an urban school like UofL, in a city like Louisville, where college athletics are treated like professional sports by the corporations with dollars to spend, a real advantage.

https://twitter.com/Coach_Gattis/status/...7578674207

https://twitter.com/CanesFootball/status...5406817283

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