Have none of yall ever negotiated a pay raise?

[tennesseeduke]

Yes let’s pay for the education others are paying 100K for, let’s pay for the best housing on campus, let’s pay for the best food you can get, let’s pay for training/medical. Let’s give them the platform to make it to the NFL and make millions(more). Let’s treat them differently than everyone on campus(I attended UT). Yes let’s pay them millions before they’ve ever taken a snap. Then let’s let them bend us over a barrell by talking to other schools every time the portal opens. All sounds great. Some if this I agree with, but when is to much to much?

Yep what a crock of &h!t. CFB is heading to the toilet.

 

[Butch s]

Heupel said recently that once a player hits the portal their time at Tennessee is over. Glad he takes that stand. Otherwise, they’ll all enter the portal

Pretty much are now

 

[Butch s]

Contracts almost certainly means the courts declare the players are professional athlete employees of the school. Doesn't THAT mean college football is dead?

It is the walking dead now. Just a matter of time

 

[YankeeVol]

Exactly. They are all contractors who can bid their services.

I don’t blame them a damn bit

They’re an Inky Johnson odd hit away from not achieving all that’s in front of them.

I’d say he’s done well for himself.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Buddy, do you not think the university is giving them the opportunity? They don’t get where they want to go without these universities. I bet you’re a huge union guy to.

Bring back child labor and the eight day work week!

 

[bpalmer28]

Pretty much are now

I wonder what percentage of SEC seniors have spent time in the portal. Think it’s above 50%?

 

[Carl Pickens]

But they aren’t employees

They’re whores

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Buddy, that University is making millions off these players. They don’t get TV contracts and sponorships for their grades.

Your - and my - degree benefits from the university having a national brand

Quit your whining

If it weren’t for the universities many of these players would never get the chance to go to college or get to the NFL.

 

[Delmar]

I think we’ve only scratched the surface of the ploys players will use to negotiate pay raises. It’s a whole new ball game folks. Better strap it on tight.

On the other hand, when you see a whole department (the wide receiver room this year and the DB’s last year) getting cleaned out, I guess we shouldn’t blame them. It’s every man for himself now. Like it or not, this is the world that’s been created.

 

[Col_Cathcart]

Bring back child labor and the eight day work week!

I was going to like this but was uncomfortable doing so without the blue font making the sarcasm explicit.

 

[Col_Cathcart]

If it weren’t for the universities many of these players would never get the chance to go to college or get to the NFL.

How many people would get the chance to go to college if it weren’t for universities

 

[Ernest T. Vol]

Minor league baseball rosters are more stable than this portal stuff. We're just yelling for our color of clothes.

 

[deezvols]

Instant gratification now for reduced success in the future is a risk these young kids aren’t ready for

 

[Golfprovol]

You get a pay raise by showing your value and then getting market comps to justify your worth.

Some of yall need to realize Portal players can come back.

I don’t blame any kids getting a raise or renegotiating.

A great early lesson in how pure capitalism works

No way in hell I would allow them back. They quit on the team once for a better offer that never came.

 

[C-south]

No way in hell I would allow them back. They quit on the team once for a better offer that never came.

You can’t look at it like that especially when we’re out clamoring for others deserters.

 

[feathersax]

No way in hell I would allow them back. They quit on the team once for a better offer that never came.

Vince Lombardi nailed it long ago.

 

[Butch s]

Buddy, do you not think the university is giving them the opportunity? They don’t get where they want to go without these universities. I bet you’re a huge union guy to.

 

[Volbrando]

I don’t negotiate a pay raise by posting cryptic social media messages with emojis like I’m still in middle school

 

[aaronvol]

If we would have won last week none of these threads would even be here.

 

[Vol8188]

Yes let’s pay for the education others are paying 100K for, let’s pay for the best housing on campus, let’s pay for the best food you can get, let’s pay for training/medical. Let’s give them the platform to make it to the NFL and make millions(more). Let’s treat them differently than everyone on campus(I attended UT). Yes let’s pay them millions before they’ve ever taken a snap. Then let’s let them bend us over a barrell by talking to other schools every time the portal opens. All sounds great. Some if this I agree with, but when is to much to much?

Let each individual school, player, and coach decide what is/is not too much.

 

[EastTNVol6240]

Let each individual school, player, and coach decide what is/is not too much.

I’m pretty sure that’s how it works….. yet here we are on a message board debating our feelings on the subject. It’s almost like that’s what this place is for…..

 

[Golfprovol]

You can’t look at it like that especially when we’re out clamoring for others deserters.

That is a fair point. Guess it would depend on why each player is leaving. Looking for more PT or just simply more money.

Gaston Moore, totally understand. He wants to play and sees no way forward here.

 

[Vol8188]

I’m pretty sure that’s how it works….. yet here we are on a message board debating our feelings on the subject. It’s almost like that’s what this place is for…..

What’s your complaint exactly? They get to negotiate?

Scary…

 

[EastTNVol6240]

What’s your complaint exactly? They get to negotiate?

Scary…

What’s scary is you read, responded to, and now act as if you couldn’t comprehend my first post on the subject. I think the players should be compensated in some way for play. It’s a two way street. I get that. Universities make tons on these kids but they also give these kids the platform to get where they want to go in life, tuition, facilities, millions before they’ve ever taken a snap for some. The complaint is it’s gotten carried away and will only get worse. I know good and well it’s not going anywhere. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

What’s scary is you read, responded to, and now act as if you couldn’t comprehend my first post on the subject. I think the players should be compensated in some way for play. It’s a two way street. I get that. Universities make tons on these kids but they also give these kids the platform to get where they want to go in life, tuition, facilities, millions before they’ve ever taken a snap for some. The complaint is it’s gotten carried away and will only get worse. I know good and well it’s not going anywhere. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

For decades the successful teams felt players should be compensated more than just with the scholarship, education, training, exposure..... and paid them illegally and informally. Decades.

Now that it's out in the open, people act as though they've never DREAMED players were paid before and that "it's out of hand."

What was it before? Okay because we didn't talk about it except to say "Bama buys players" "Duke pays basketball players" or whatever.

Who defines "it's gotten carried away?" The free market economy system is a highly conservative, highly valued, and highly successful system. That's what is happening. The value of the players is being "bid up" by competition. It's as American as you being a valuable employee and sought after by several employers via offers for more money, better benefits, more vacation, etc.

Where is this "carried away" not as American as apple pie?