This has to be the best thread from the Bama boards

#51
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Pride85 said:
Not really. I know a whole lot of people that work very physically challenging jobs, for a lot more hours in a lot worse working conditions, for a whole lot less money. I don't care how long the average career of a player is, that doesn't justify making vast multiples more than the people that actually pay those salaries. I am NOT talking donors. I am talking the fans that spend more than they should to try and support their team. That goes for coaches, ADs and anyone else associated with high contracts.
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I don’t disagree with your point completely, but SEC athletes are the absolute cream of the crop in their field. There’s 1,360 of them in the entire country every year. 99.9% of the population could not do what they do. They’re the elite of the elite and some are getting compensated for that.
 
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#52
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LadyVolette said:
Can’t say I blame him
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Nope. He's a pretty smart guy. He built a monster down there even he wasn't going to be able to sustain it.. NIL pretty much killed any chance of that lasting much longer. They would have been calling for his head eventually.
 
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UT is making it mandatory to contribute to NIL now, if you want to attend a game. I think a lot of big donors are going to feel like this after a while. If you gave OU a million to pay Jackson Arnold, what are you getting for your money? I'd be closing my checkbook too. What about literally any Gator to play this year? The season is already lost
 
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madbamahater said:
Right. Saban is an embarrassment to college football. That punk quit and took his football home, because it's a more level playing field with NIL and with Tennessee FINALLY has a real football coach and doesn't have a coach that Saban endorsed for the Tennessee job.

Saban actually said of Dooley, Jones and Pruitt that they were good for UT. Sure, they were great for UT, because he knows he would stomp the asses of all three coaches forever.

He got mad and quit, because he can't just outright cheat by paying illegally and doesn't want a more level playing field. He thinks that's unfair to him.....
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Good lord, the man is 72 years old.... he's earned it.
 
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JBD_Vol said:
Why do so many hate paying players.? It happened for years everywhere.

Why should a player like Chuck Webb have not been paid legally. He lost a great career playing for "free" while helping UT make a lot of money.

And don't start on room, board, and an education take care of all of that because UT made tons more than Chuck and others made with room, board, etc. People who go with that either did not go to college and / or were too stupid to go out in the world and make money. That is unless listening to an Ethiopean prof who graduated from one of the SUNYs spending a whole semester blaming so-called white man's hegemony for screwing up the world is the problem which all should know about (kinda like certain politicians who support everyone except those who go out and try to do it right (i.e the radical racists). (Why professor oppressed came over and probably did not go back if he was indeed teaching students correctly is unknown).
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I don't mind a payment but it is not a seven figure amount. That is gross and stupid. I think there should be a cap to it and a minimum 2 year agreement. You can break it and move to another school but sitting out a year should come back into play and a max of one transfer in a career.
 
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allstar34bd said:
It feels good waking up in the Heart of Alabama today. The sun is shining, the cows are moo’ing, and the bama tears are flowing. I may listen to Rocky Top all the way to the Falcons game today. Go Vols! My drive to Huntsville will be so much more enjoyable knowing I’ll be wearing orange all week but not saying a word 😆 act like we been here
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Go Vols
 

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Carp said:
It absolutely justifies it.

In a capitalist society, you get paid what the market thinks you are worth. If regular Joe's could get the same money playing a sport, don't you think they would?..

Not to mention, most of these players aren't getting paid that much money. Certainly not more than your average factory worker.
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I agree.

The person you're responding to does not grasp how value is determined.
 
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S.C. OrangeMan said:
Yeah, because no Vol gets NIL money...right?
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It’s just a different culture. You can see it and hear it in the way our players talk and conduct themselves compared to the way theirs do. I could be wrong, but they definitely are an undisciplined football team and you can hear bama ppl saying the same thing.
 
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Volhoops said:
I don't mind a payment but it is not a seven figure amount. That is gross and stupid. I think there should be a cap to it and a minimum 2 year agreement. You can break it and move to another school but sitting out a year should come back into play and a max of one transfer in a career.
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We don't need wage controls Wage and price controls do not work. The market may be freaky at times, but it is the best regulator. Yes to some regs, but let the market decide.
 
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I’m still trying to get my head around paying 1K per month as a fan for NIL like the Bama poster says he was doing.
 
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Alabama has had kind of a form of NIL since the 1960's ....
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Edit: Probably much further back than the 60's now that i think about it......
 
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