College players getting PAID

[WAR]

CFB already suffers from a total lack of competitive balance at the top, so I doubt this will make it any worse.

[Melkerson]

@00cooler00

A related issue that I’m not sure has been addressed is players ability to transfer.

This could actually reduce the ability to transfer. Booster just has to say that contract is contingent on staying at Bama for 4 yrs, otherwise they must repay any income received. I don’t see why everyone won’t just do something like that.

[MrWookie]

@CaffeineNeeded

If oregon gets added to the mix of big schools (it currently is not top tier)

wat. If Oregon isn’t, then is the whole Pac-12 not also?

[CaffeineNeeded]

Well I suppose it becomes a definitional game at some point, but the p12 has one cfp participant and zero wins. USC being down and the awful commissioner y’all had are a problem for the conference at large.

[MrWookie]

@CaffeineNeeded

Well I suppose it becomes a definitional game at some point, but the p12 has one cfp participant and zero wins

wat.

[WAR]

P12 is pretty trash

[CaffeineNeeded]

i forgot one, sue me :)

[MrWookie]

Forgetting one of THE most hilarious games of all time is prettay, prettay, prettayyyyy bad.

[WAR]

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[MrWookie]

But anyway, are your “big schools” precisely Bama, Clempson, Okie, and anOSU, and no one else? Because if you start expanding the list beyond that, it gets hard to exclude Oregon really quickly, especially if we’re focused more on the financial side of things than the results side of things.

[MrWookie]

Ref taking a dive in solidarity never gets old.

[monetary_expert]

@JonnyA

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.

yep i remember about 8-9 years ago Ole Miss, historically one of the worst football programs in the SEC, started getting #1 ranked recruiting classes and even beat Bama for a few years before they got put on probation for paying players. The argument that only top teams will get the best recruits is bad because even if it were true, is still not a good reason for colleges exploiting young 18-22 year old adults and making millions off of their unpaid labor.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Oregon is 26th in revenue. If you start adding that in you have to look hard at some other schools with less success.

All irrelevant though really. I would say that the results bear out that the bama/osu/clemsons of the world are on a different tier, with LSU/Georgia next up.

Oregon does have a unique advantage though.

[Lawnmower_Man]

@Melkerson

Booster just has to say that contract is contingent on staying at Bama for 4 yrs, otherwise they must repay any income received.

I dunno, the problem with this contract is that it’s starting to sound an awful lot like an employment contract from someone who isn’t actually the employer. I’m for paying the players (actually I’m for the entire fucking system collapsing and NCAA officials going to prison), but this is more like bribery-type shit you all are describing here that seems destined for a ton of lawyering.

[Chuckleslovakian]

Selfishly this is going to be great for Kentucky. So Kentucky’s one bright spot from last season (which shall not be talked about again) waited until July 1 to decide to come back. Pretty clear dude wanted to make some money, and was debating between Euro and UK. Also the #1 player in the 2022 class has always been thought to be a lock for G league. But there is talks he is thinking about college now and just visited UK after this passed. Also, stud player out of Illinois just entered the transfer portal…might still go to NBA…but if he doesn’t UK is supposed to be the leader

TL:DR-Calipari is made for this new world

[Lawnmower_Man]

Who’s representing the players in these deals? You need agents/legal for that shit. In pro sports, the framework for this is fairly established with rules in place. Wild west with high school kids is going to be a ton of angling and fraud. Presumably the negotiations will begin when kids are still in high school (or younger). Can university boosters negotiate contracts with minors? Seems sketch as fuck.

[MrWookie]

They won’t be getting as much as they could, but I won’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[Marksman]

Lolklahoma

[Marksman]

I assume endorsement contracts have a lot of varied and sometimes unique conditions.

Also while perhaps not an IRS version of employee they definitely are working for the company they endorse.

[amead]

Of course there will be 12 year old prodigies getting huge deals. People are always willing to put their money behind “the next big thing” and gamble. It’s like development deals in TV.

If a human being exists that might make a ton of money, there will always be people out there trying to hitch their wagon to them.

It’s not like it didn’t happen for young athletes, lol at thinking there wasn’t billions of dark money dollars coming to them and their families. Now it can happen in the daylight.