NCAA NIL Proposal ( and more)
 

This might be the next conference realignment thread.

https://theathletic.com/5114092/2023...charlie-baker/

College sports are pure shit. "Allows high resources schools to do special things", basically even greater disparity....

How do you feel about Nebraska reaching out to Honda McCord William?

Who is Honda McCord?

The OSU QB

investment of at least $30,000 per year per athlete for at least half of the school’s eligible athletes

Sounds like a reason to reason to start dropping athletic programs.

Obviously, nothing is final, but I’d be very interested in how this would work for teams without a few T. Boone Pickens in their pockets?

I think that’s probably a good idea for Nebraska. Bad idea for McCord.

The Title IX requirement might make it a harder sell.

Requiring 30k will make the rich even richer.

Yep. Suddenly Ole Miss has football, volleyball, women's soccer, and women's golf.

just create a freaking farm league and let the NCAA eat shit

I'd be okay with this.

Take the top 250 'college' athletes out of the pool every year and send 'em to NFL AAA.

And let amateur athletics get back to amateurism.

Because this is just so gross. Y'all see all these tweets and basically fundraising calls to fans? "If you want us to be good, donate to X so we can go buy some players..."

That just sucks so hard.

Yeah asking the fans to donate is pretty gross. Considering most schools have rich donors that could easily afford to cover the payment. As if these shit head universities aren't getting enough from tuition, ticket prices, donors, and everything else they like to charge for.

This has been going on forever… now it will just be legal.

I'm having a hard time enjoying the direction college football is headed. No one cares about a mercenary, you use them until the job is done or they fall off the line. A large percentage of players still need developed over time and a system of essentially being able to hire, fire, and poach them from other programs at will is not going to be good for a lot of these kids.

... and **** these letters essentially asking alumni for NIL donations. We were already getting several fundraising/donation letters a year and now they want us to fund the players too? **** off with that shit.

I did buy some of the football cards that send a percentage of the money to the kids' pockets through an NIL deal. Interesting concept. Shit cards. I now have an on card auto that will probably be worthless forever and a stack of cardboard I should just use to start the fireplace with.

The regular season has been amazing the past few years the playoffs are actually interesting. NIL actually gives more programs a chance to be competitive. The biggest knock is thousands of kids enter the portal but not all of them come out better the supply outweighs the demand. There does need to be some structure.

I know an individual that tutored a DE. The perks and benefits that DE was receiving was sickening. Hard to look at sports the same.

you can’t stop it. That train has left the building. These super conferences run everything from now on.

Because if they don’t, those conferences will start their own version of the NCAA. All the TV and cable money would go with them and the gap between the schools and conferences will widen even more.

I've stopped following college sports outside of KSU football games and don't even follow them like I used to. It's sickening.

Do whatever they want I just want some heat seeking hits crushing each other like animals then go back about my day

Was Kia Morrento not available?

I haven't had a problem with the quality of games and would prefer an even bigger playoff. It could have been very interesting this year with the extra teams in it.

I just no longer care about the players. They're now here today and gone tomorrow. With no loyalty flowing either way there's just no ****s to give. The reactions to injuries is going to be even more interesting. None of this is what college athletics are supposed to be about and I'm not sure it's a positive for anyone in the long term.

We're going to see the affects of this stuff show up in the NFL.

I am souring more and more on college sports. Bleeding hearts have ruined it. Never going to be like it was.

KSU football paid/brought to you by Farmland and IH/CASE! The patches on the uniforms will look nice.

Exactly.

Throwing open the gates and turning it into the Wild West is somehow the most irresponsible thing the NCAA has ever done. That's an INCREDIBLY high bar folks.

yet here we are.

It wasn't the NCAA. It was the Supreme Court, who basically said if the NCAA tries to put any restrictions on NIL they will get sued and lose.

I think that proposal is dead in the water because of the Title IX component.

You can get people to kick in and buy shit for the star recruits/players of a football team or men’s basketball team (at the right places).

For a women’s soccer player or basketball player or a cross country athlete, that’s a much tougher sell.

As it should be a tough sell. Those men basketball and football players bring in the money to the university. They deserve some of that money. Cross country athlete programs cost money. Why should they get any money?

At the same time you look at a school like Colorado yes they suck but that was a program dead in the water the portal & Deion made for some of the most entertaining ball week in and week out. I've never watched as much Colorado football in my life.

Then you have a school like yours. I don't think MU was ever a serious playoff contender pre NIL. Now? I think you can make a pretty strong case we see them in the 12 team playoff team next year.

Then you have your programs like a Nebraska. Not a chance without the portal that team doesn't contend for a bowl next year with the shape it was left in by consecutive awful coaching hires. A good QB addition in the portal and they will be a very competitive team next year.

Then you have schools like Boise St or whoever which to be honest I never gave a shit about and yeah they are ****ed but I never cared for those Kellen Moore era teams. Yeah cute story they beat up on teams in a shit division and got lucky in some bowl games whatever

Yeah, it's a constant question and frustration.

When I was at Mizzou, I dated a member of the gymnastics team. She complained a lot about the gym times they got, and meal times, and how football and men's hoops got whatever they wanted.

I didn't say anything. (I was an idiot back then, but I wasn't THAT big an idiot).

But I thought about her when I saw the stuff from the Oregon athletes suing about uneven NIL division last week. She's not the only female college athlete I've talked to who complained about what football and men's hoops get vs. female athletes or non-revenue athletes (just the only one I know... intimately), so I think there are some who either don't care or don't realize that their sport only exists because those athletes play sports that generate interest and revenue for everyone else.

Dated a gymnast? OHHH please tell us more. Were the nights really fun....;)

"I dated a college gymnast and told her to stop complaining..."

Yeah - I don't figure anyone is THAT stupid.

No complaints here. We had a good time. She was about a year out from retirement and the hormones her training had previously suppressed came out with a bang. Added 2 cup sizes and the posterior was full and could have a quarter bounced off of it.

It was fun, but ultimately a bullet dodged (with some nice things filed away for the occasional daydream).

If there's another league then the NFL could start relegating the bottom four teams in the league to the lower league each year and bring the top four teams from the lower league into the NFL.

Game changer if this happens… the NFL would definitely start taking notice…

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Marvin Harrison Jr. has reportedly been offered NIL deals that would “compete” with what he would receive as a first-round draft pick.<br><br>For reference, a Top-5 pick (which Harrison would be) makes anywhere between $20-$25 million in total cash as a rookie.<br><br>This also doesn’t… <a href="https://t.co/CkUL5k7e7I">pic.twitter.com/CkUL5k7e7I</a></p>&mdash; NFL Rookie Watch (@NFLRookieWatxh) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLRookieWatxh/status/1732817288208756824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This stuff is going to blow up even more now that conference realignment has many of the the sports that are a big net loss flying half way across the country every other week. They're going to have a whole list of stuff to complain about. I wouldn't even be surprised if a lot of the smaller sports programs get dropped all together because of the hassle, while losing money.

Yeah right. Nobody paying a college WR near that much

A&M is paying a coach 77 mil to sit on a couch

Sounds like a great college experience. :D