TSSAA opens high school sports to NIL deals

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The article is misleading on the 20 other sports who have it. After some research, Tennessee is the first to allow HS students. The rest are states that have NIL laws in place applying to colleges. I may be wrong but that is what I found.
I think it will kill schools because now a person can have an elite player give lessons to their child or grandchild and pay them $1,000 or per lesson if they will attend such and such school. It will move toward the pay to play like is happening in college and I think once you open the door it is hard to close it or control it. Plus the fear is among coaches that their next step will be to allow transfers like college with no sit out year without a move by the entire family. Players are already changing schools like crazy. It will also allow private schools to offer NIL deals to players (legally).
 
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preacherman20 said:
The article is misleading on the 20 other sports who have it. After some research, Tennessee is the first to allow HS students. The rest are states that have NIL laws in place applying to colleges. I may be wrong but that is what I found.
I think it will kill schools because now a person can have an elite player give lessons to their child or grandchild and pay them $1,000 or per lesson if they will attend such and such school. It will move toward the pay to play like is happening in college and I think once you open the door it is hard to close it or control it. Plus the fear is among coaches that their next step will be to allow transfers like college with no sit out year without a move by the entire family. Players are already changing schools like crazy. It will also allow private schools to offer NIL deals to players (legally).
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California allows it. There's 1 or 2 other states that do too, but can't remember which. I was thinking Texas maybe. Anyways, Tennessee isn't the first, but is getting in the game super early.
 
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5FingerVolPunch said:
California allows it. There's 1 or 2 other states that do too, but can't remember which. I was thinking Texas maybe. Anyways, Tennessee isn't the first, but is getting in the game super early.
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I'm pretty sure Texas does not. Quinn Ewers didn't play his last year of Texas high school football specifically because he couldn't receive NIL $. He instead reclassified and enrolled at Ohio State to make some cash for a year and then turned around and went right back to Texas...
 
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preacherman20 said:
The article is misleading on the 20 other sports who have it. After some research, Tennessee is the first to allow HS students. The rest are states that have NIL laws in place applying to colleges. I may be wrong but that is what I found.
I think it will kill schools because now a person can have an elite player give lessons to their child or grandchild and pay them $1,000 or per lesson if they will attend such and such school. It will move toward the pay to play like is happening in college and I think once you open the door it is hard to close it or control it. Plus the fear is among coaches that their next step will be to allow transfers like college with no sit out year without a move by the entire family. Players are already changing schools like crazy. It will also allow private schools to offer NIL deals to players (legally).
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I agree with you that if the TSSAA does allow players to move around freely that it will cause problems.

The TSSAA already has a private school divisions within the classifications. And that private school division, I think, is divided between schools that do give athletic scholarships and schools that do not give athletic scholarships.

I don’t keep up with high school athletics as much as you do, but I’m aware of a lot of grumbling about the football program at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville. Apparently it’s a small school with a super high number of players who have received D1 offers. Perhaps somebody in middle Tennessee who knows more about the situation could post more.
 
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5FingerVolPunch said:
California allows it. There's 1 or 2 other states that do too, but can't remember which. I was thinking Texas maybe. Anyways, Tennessee isn't the first, but is getting in the game super early.
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NIL is a no in Texas currently. Attached is a link to a site listing NIL by state for high schoolers, which was already updated for TN.

NIL High School Rules (on3.com)
 
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TSSAA used to be so stringent that they didn’t allow a buddy of mine to play baseball after he moved from his Dad’s home in VA to his Mom’s home in TN. His parents were divorced but TSSAA ruled he had to sit out a year. He was a senior so he was done. Lost his appeal and a season of baseball due to a bureaucratic rule. Wow, has the pendulum swung in a totally opposite way. Money will ruin high school sports.
 
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taylorvol said:
TSSAA used to be so stringent that they didn’t allow a buddy of mine to play baseball after he moved from his Dad’s home in VA to his Mom’s home in TN. His parents were divorced but TSSAA ruled he had to sit out a year. He was a senior so he was done. Lost his appeal and a season of baseball due to a bureaucratic rule. Wow, has the pendulum swung in a totally opposite way. Money will ruin high school sports.
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TSSAA has been historically obtuse. Guaranteed this has their panties in a wad.

Their skin is sucked up so far into their a**, the skin is pulled tight across their face….
 
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I don’t really have an issue if the article is indeed correct. If a HS QB can make some money teaching young QB’s in his spare time, that’s a good thing. If a kid gets a Chik-Filet deal which benefits him and the team, good. Let’s be real here for a second…the vast majority of schools both public and private, their resources are so thin. Parents might pay for some road trip food, work the concessions, drive equipment, there’s just not a ton of money floating around.

As for transferring to the highest bidder, that’s been going on forever, at least here in Knoxville. ‘Johnny’ can’t play in the school district to where he’s zoned. So he wants to get into a different school zone. There are parents that will move. There are creative ways to game the system, have been for as long as I can remember.

If my son came to me and said, I wanna mow yards this summer, we’d sit down and come up with a plan. Likewise, if he came to me and said, I think I could make some spending money giving RB instruction, we’d sit down and make a plan. Once these kids get to HS, they end up working camps for free anyway.
 
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I agree with you. I dont think this will become a huge deal. Kids are already being recruited to private schools in TN and do whatever they have to in order to attend, including moving. Same goes on with the non-private schools. I’ve seen people take jobs in the school system just so their kids can go to a certain out of zone school. Kids “live with their uncle” who is in the right school zone, etc.
 
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I don’t really have an issue if the article is indeed correct. If a HS QB can make some money teaching young QB’s in his spare time, that’s a good thing. If a kid gets a Chik-Filet deal which benefits him and the team, good. Let’s be real here for a second…the vast majority of schools both public and private, their resources are so thin. Parents might pay for some road trip food, work the concessions, drive equipment, there’s just not a ton of money floating around.

As for transferring to the highest bidder, that’s been going on forever, at least here in Knoxville. ‘Johnny’ can’t play in the school district to where he’s zoned. So he wants to get into a different school zone. There are parents that will move. There are creative ways to game the system, have been for as long as I can remember.

If my son came to me and said, I wanna mow yards this summer, we’d sit down and come up with a plan. Likewise, if he came to me and said, I think I could make some spending money giving RB instruction, we’d sit down and make a plan. Once these kids get to HS, they end up working camps for free anyway.
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I was Nationally ranked in tennis starting at 12 years old. By the time I was in high school, I was giving lessons on a regular basis. I never considered that could be a TSSAA violation.

like you say though, my school was a small rural school without much of an athletic budget…. And it was the only high school in the county.
 
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txbo said:
I was Nationally ranked in tennis starting at 12 years old. By the time I was in high school, I was giving lessons on a regular basis. I never considered that could be a TSSAA violation.

like you say though, my school was a small rural school without much of an athletic budget…. And it was the only high school in the county.
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I would add…kids start specializing in one sport now much earlier, folks spends lots of money almost year around now. My kid is in marching band in the fall and concert band in the winter, it sucks up as much time as any sport I ever played. If there’s a way for the cultivated talent to off set some of the costs, why not?
 
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