Just like with paying politicians for speeches after they left office it is a signal to everyone else what’s waiting for them if they play ball.
I think the boosters immediately become irrelevant in a world where Nike can offer athletes endorsement money for going to X school. The reason why the local car dealer was a booster was that he liked being treated like a big shot around town and it wasn’t that expensive.
You’re going to have to do a whole lot better than buying some meals/cars and hiring some sex workers now. A whole lot better.
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Particularly locally in their home town the region their college team is popular. 225 NBA players have shoe deals, some of which are for as little as 50k but still. I can tell you for absolute certain that the starting five for U of L could sell quite a few shoes in Louisville. The starting 5 for UK could sell shoes nationally but that’s because @Chuckleslovakian is absolutely correct about Calipari being made for this world.
I also expect this will result in high school players soaking up a lot of what used to be college booster money.
I don’t get it. The trumpers don’t get paid to block for the uber wealthy in real life but they do it whole heartedly.
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But like, why? It doesn’t seem that enticing when most people are going to be getting fronted straight cash, homie. There’s no need to hide it anymore or disguise it as something it’s not. I also don’t believe these performance contracts will necessarily be legal as the lawyer pointed out with the Florida state law. Seems to me like the athletes could straight up do GoFundMe or Patreon and just reap the cash outright. No contracts necessary.
Right I suspect it’s going to attract all of the shadiest vultures now that the canopy has been lifted.
I think it’s more complicated than that. For sure the Top X (where X is a small number) will be taking down the lion’s share of the money which is one of the problems with NIL as the only way to claw back labor value. It’s closer to a winner-take-all economy where that unrated left tackle from Deep State U gets nothing for donating his CTE brain even though his actual labor value is worth far in excess of $0.
However, three grifting sneaker companies basically control college basketball down to the lowest levels of AAU where they were bribing coaches. It’s non-satirically referred to as “grassroots” involvement, and it’s one of the bigger issues beyond just how much monetary value the athletes are able to reclaim. These companies were basically acting like organized crime hence the enormous FBI investigation, and it feels like this ruling helps them. They have so much money and have penetrated the system so deeply that it’s hard to imagine anyone will be able to compete with them out of the gate.
Players getting paid seems to directly leading to this OU/TX exodus from the B12. I think they see the writing on the wall. Sure there was already a large recruiting disadvantage but when Alabama players are making multiples of what OU players are in the B12 that’s pretty much ballgame.
As someone who thinks OU is terminally overrated it will be interesting how this shakes out if it does indeed happen.
DJ Uiagalelei just signed a deal with freaking dr pepper and bryce young has almost 7 figures of deals despite never starting. Harriot is a fucking moron. There is no ‘data’ on this at all.
Right and they also fired Larry Culpepper who was extremely popular with the neurotic college football fans that seem to be harboring some kind of, uhh, cultural anxiety:
https://twitter.com/SodaCitySitdown/status/1425483346608640003
https://twitter.com/RushRush74/status/1425598901281857540
https://twitter.com/GamecockPride01/status/1425477256697294848
I’m not surprised fans from clemsons historical rival aren’t fans