Given the kind of debt some kids are racking up these days, it’s probably negative for many.
Actually thinking about this more, it seems to me it would be highly beneficial for schools to employ the booster paying the kid model as it allows them to circumvent title IX issues. If Kentucky pays the men’s basketball players directly, then they would have to pay the women’s players equally. But if the booster pays the kids for NIL stuff, then the school doesn’t really have to change what they do for the women.
I’m not 100% sure on this point, so if I’m missing something feel free to correct me.
Your question feels like a weird “Gotcha,” since you’re implying that my belief that many players are unprepared for college and shouldn’t be given useless scholarships in lieu of cash is somehow robbing them of opportunities?
Tbh, I didn’t know that there was a meaningful number of people that were “apprehensive” about this. A bunch of old farts on the Supreme Court across the ideological spectrum decided unanimously that it was cool.
That’s how I am interpreting the decision. But maybe a lawbro who has read the whole thing can comment.
100% legit to do this.
Nope, they used to have to pretend, but they can know now. It’s all above board.
From what I’ve read the colleges can’t explicitly say if you come here we can guarantee you X amount of money from these sponsorships.
But at the same time if the Walton family gives every Arkansas player a million dollar contract this year, recruits will be lining up to play for Arkansas next year…
Oh and wrt the master p son thing. The website was “hiring” a 2019 intern until they updated the website sometime today. It’s pure nepotism at best, money laundering otherwise.
@Chuckleslovakian but the dealership can contact the player and make a deal contingent on them attending or whatever.
What about contracts based on performance? For example, booster will pay player
100K for 500yd rushing
300K for 1000yd rushing
600K for Heisman
etc.
or let’s get even crazier
$50K per unpenalized sack resulting in QB missing rest of game.
Kosher or not?
Kosher… except for the sack one, that might actually break a rule, but it’s not codified yet anywhere that I’m aware of.
Pretty much every school has created an NIL program for their athletes. Who knows where this ends up, we’ll see.
Big schools already have all the players. If oregon gets added to the mix of big schools (it currently is not top tier), it would be a significant improvement in the concentration of talent.
Well they won’t be “unstoppable”. We know from other sports even if you have really deep pockets, you may not spend them on the right players and you still have to coach them up. And because of the ages of the players involved, there is going to be a lot of changes in how good the players are relative to each other.
It would be very easy for Phil Knight to spend millions and still not ship.
The top teams were already getting all the best recruits, now at least they will have to pay them.
If anything, this will allow for more random upstarts to try to challenge the top teams. Maybe more in basketball than football, but now a random rich alum can put up say $10-20 million and buy his school an elite team. Before, the small schools had no prayer of getting those guys.
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That just seems like yet another win.
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I am looking forward to the pressers where coaches bitch about their players getting paid more than them.
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No. I always thought his quote there must have been taken out of context because I know that players on that team were getting paid. I think he meant that sometimes they’d have practices/games late and by the time they got back to their dorms/apartments there wouldn’t be any place to buy food.
That being said, I always thought it was ridiculous the system was the way it was and am 100% on board with paying the players as much as possible.
A related issue that I’m not sure has been addressed is players ability to transfer. Again, I always thought it was ridiculous a player had to sit out an entire year of their playing career if they transferred. Yet coaches/administrators/staff are free agents and can go wherever they please while raking in the $.
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I’ll be surprised if anyone lets that slip. But I’ll be there for the lols.
Spent a lot of time around D1 players and it was absolutely 100% true then. It’s less so now as cost of living stuff is allowed in scholarships, but that’s a recent development. Specifically it’s after that video was published. Y’all wrong on this one.