'22 SC SF Julian Phillips (Tennessee commit)

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LeannaVol said:
I didn't say they didn't have the rights to do it. But there is nothing normal about an 18 year old getting paid $8 million to attend a university and play football. I would like to find some middle ground. I don't like the way college sports, particularly basketball and football is trending where kids are going to the highest bidder and these athletes care nothing about the university they represent except getting a pay day. I guess we are all Kentucky basketball now and I don't like it but maybe it is just me.
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You don’t think that kids were not going to the highest bidder before the acronym NIL created?
 
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LeannaVol said:
I didn't say they didn't have the rights to do it. But there is nothing normal about an 18 year old getting paid $8 million to attend a university and play football. I would like to find some middle ground. I don't like the way college sports, particularly basketball and football is trending where kids are going to the highest bidder and these athletes care nothing about the university they represent except getting a pay day. I guess we are all Kentucky basketball now and I don't like it but maybe it is just me.
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It’s been like that for decades just back then it was under the table money…
 
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johnnybravo said:
You don’t think that kids were not going to the highest bidder before the acronym NIL created?
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I know elite athletes have been getting cars, money other benefits etc from UT and probably every other power 5 school in the country for years. But sometimes Universities were caught and punished and it kept things from devolving into open bidding wars with kids demanding NIL millions and playing one staff against another. I do think there was a difference between UT and Kentucky/Auburn/LSU in terms of how we operated and who we recruited. We didn't get the kids just after a big pay check for a year before going to the NBA and that made it all the sweeter when we beat them.
 
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LeannaVol said:
I know elite athletes have been getting cars, money other benefits etc from UT and probably every other power 5 school in the country for years. But sometimes Universities were caught and punished and it kept things from devolving into open bidding wars with kids demanding NIL millions and playing one staff against another. I do think there was a difference between UT and Kentucky/Auburn/LSU in terms of how we operated and who we recruited. We didn't get the kids just after a big pay check for a year before going to the NBA and that made it all the sweeter when we beat them.
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As soon as the coaches cap their salaries, we can talk about the kids capping theirs.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
People can't seem to understand that some kid from 800 miles away likely didn't grow up cheering for the Vols and doesn't have some great emotional attachment to the program.
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What is this great emotional attachment? Kids are looking to get paid both now and after collage. Find the program that can provide both the NIL and a pathway to the NBA and you will find the stars
 
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germanicus said:
As soon as the coaches cap their salaries, we can talk about the kids capping theirs.
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This.

Don't really have a problem with players trying to make their money since they're the actual ones who decide the outcomes of games more often than not.

Coaches make a ridiculous amount of money. Like you said, unless/until we cap their pay, we don't need to cap players' pay.
 
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For that matter I’m still trying to reconcile this with intellectual property. Along with some classmates we came up with a product which was purchased by John Deere for millions and we didn’t see a penny of it. Which isn’t uncommon. If you use university resources then they own it. Not sure how it’s any different
 
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LeannaVol said:
I didn't say they didn't have the rights to do it. But there is nothing normal about an 18 year old getting paid $8 million to attend a university and play football. I would like to find some middle ground. I don't like the way college sports, particularly basketball and football is trending where kids are going to the highest bidder and these athletes care nothing about the university they represent except getting a pay day. I guess we are all Kentucky basketball now and I don't like it but maybe it is just me.
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An adult being paid for the value he can bring is now "abnormal?" I missed that memo. We've paid 18 year old basketball players 10 times that.

I'm tired of people whining about the death of college football now that players are getting some money. If it's so terrible, use your money to do something about it. Start a new league. Save college football. If you can't do that, it might be because it's not a viable thing to do. NIL is good for EVERYBODY. Get on board.
 
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Fwiw was told tonight that Phillips isn’t coming here, will end up at Auburn…as I’ve said a few times with this recruitment hope to be wrong, but not feeling good.
 
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