I would like to thank the Supreme Court, the NCAA, the universities, and players and their parents for ruining college football

[Boone&Crockett]

Tennessee high school sports org votes to allow NIL deals

Of course. Child actors get paid all the time for NIL..... being in commercials, their face on stuff, autograph signings, etc. You'll get the hell sued out of you trying to stop an athlete from doing the same thing.

Well there ya go, High Schoolers now, 8th Graders after that, hell before long they will be evaluating talent at the Pee Wee level, we are a spoiled country when we give our hard earned money to kids so they will attend the college we root for, its stupid.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Oh good grief. They get paid a portion of the profit they generate. You're too stuck on a word not the idea

Yes, they're pro athletes, with a union, who get paid.

If that happens to "college" sports it's just another pro league.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Well there ya go, High Schoolers now, 8th Graders after that, hell before long they will be evaluating talent at the Pee Wee level, we are a spoiled country when we give our hard earned money to kids so they will attend the college we root for, its stupid.

The problem is how much emphasis WE place on sports vs education. In TX there are full on huge stadiums for high school football costing millions to build at schools.

It's not the fault of the students and athletes who come along into this...... it's us. We've LOVED the big and bigger and biggest stadium and the ability to watch the Vols on TV easily and the success of having highly paid and talented coaches. We made this so damn profitable that there's money everywhere....... and now the kids are getting some too.

But it didn't start with the athletes. They didn't get much until recently but there's been big money flowing for decades. It's us, not the athletes that created this.

 

[0nelilreb]

Have you read your own football forum threads about this before you started a thread about it here in VN ? What I read was that your “ Gators are to cheap to pay the money they promised the kid and his family and that your new coach should try to find a way out if his contract and get away from the dumpster fire if he can “ this isn’t a we problem , it’s a your problem @lawgator1

 

[SpookyAction]

UF is the news of the day..... but look over your shoulder...

Yes.
The Rashada case will be fairly common going forward for players that have not yet signed their NIL and gone to classes.

To me, the Rashada case sounds very similar to the Cam Newton sweepstakes a decade ago.
Is Dad trying to encourage bidding for his son's services?

 

[YankeeVol]

Is this..."Crocodile Tears"??!!

Crocs and gators are far different.

Alligators will see you later.

Crocodiles will see you in awhile.

 

[kcvols1]

Years of accumulated knowledge

A notoriously reliable source!

 

[CINCYVOL]

There will be no such thing as loyalty to a program, school, or coach. The best players will force universities into bidding wars. A QB that wins the Heisman as a junior? He'll put himself on the free agency list for the portal the day after the bowls are done. Gone will be the days of sitting in the stands and watching a player progress over 2 to 4 years, maybe 5.

I'm not naive, I know it happened before on a lesser scale when it was not legal to make offers like we see now. But the scope of it now, and the fact that its going to just get worse....

There is no solution. NIL cannot be capped. I don't know, maybe student athletes never really did have much loyalty or allegiance and we romanticized it off the strength of the very few that seemed to embrace it, Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow. But now school fan bases are going to needle each other about how they stole this player or that player.

Time to realize that it was really just all about the show in years past? TV rights, pageantry, fight songs. The whole thing is just so depressing.

The schools and coaches haven’t been that loyal to players in the past, now they will reap what they have seen.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

For once, I agree with LG.

 

[kcvols1]

LOLOLOL

I wish unbridled capitalism was the American way.

People say shat like this because they think it sounds tough, and it always makes me giggle.

You sound like a Vanderbilt fan.

Not the school, the railroad tycoon.

 

[J C Higgins]

Tennessee was very shrewd to get ahead of this with the collective before most major schools decided it was a big deal.

We might have been among the first to set up the system but it doesn't mean we'll be able to continue to compete. There are several schools with greater numbers of wealthy supporters or with super wealthy supporters that will be able to out bid us. Oregon, Texas, TAM, USC are among that group.

 

[OrangeBoro]

I hate the transfer portal way more than NIL. I think over time both will work themselves out but short term probably going to have a lot of issues

 

[GAVol]

Rough letting kids go to college where they want to and make money huh?

 

[temptn]

I think that all of the players moving around will put more emphasis on good coaching, and we have the edge there.

 

[OrangeBoro]

Rough letting kids go to college where they want to and make money huh?

They are free to go anywhere they want but leaving anytime for any reason isn’t good. The old rule was perfectly fine and the NIL is making the sport become semi pro. Will cause fractures among teams and players will now go to the highest bidders

 

[Gladiator1]

I've hated the NIL since the beginning. It will end up being a good thing but will take several years to work itself out. It's like the wild west now and will only get better when people finally see the abuse being done right now.

 

[temptn]

Rough letting kids go to college where they want to and make money huh?

Yeah giving them a good education, i.e. scholarship, and then them saying "screw you".

 

[Vol8188]

I'm not upset they are getting paid. I'm just bemoaning the effect of it on college football in the big picture. I really think it's going to make fans and even the game just really transitory.

The college game has always been transitory. Just like how your job is transitory. If someone offers you a great deal to work for them, why shouldn’t you be able to take it?

 

[Vol8188]

Scholarship athletes do get a modest stipend for "living expenses" and have for some time.

The issue is: if all athletes are compensated by the school, aren't they employees? I believe they are. Can't they unionize for a better amount of compensation? I believe they can. Does the university want to share that massive TV revenue? I'm sure they don't.

The school can't start compensating athletes and still claim they aren't employees.

The compensation isn’t coming from the school. It’s from the fans and businesses that support the athletes

 

[Vol8188]

Yeah giving them a good education, i.e. scholarship, and then them saying "screw you".

If someone offers you a better job tomorrow, should you be forced to decline it?

Why do you think these players should be?

 

[Crew]

Viva la revolución!

 

[vols40]

The NFL has a salary cap. Why can’t there be a cap for NIL?

NFL has no cap on what a specific player can earn on his name

 

[utvolpj]

A notoriously reliable source!

Are you claiming the Utad does use state funding to run?

 

[JoAllan]

The NFL has a salary cap. Why can’t there be a cap for NIL?

the NFL does not say “hey player A you can only earn X $$’s on endorsements”………because that’s done between the business and the player.

 

[LordVOLdemort]

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