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The school did not offer the money (Gator Collective a separate entity from the school did), the football coach is not even allowed according to the article to know the specifics of the deal.
I, for one, definitely believe none of these coaches know anything about the specifics of these deals. I’m sure it’s never talked about, ever. I’m sure the coaches don’t talk to the donors about how much money it will take or who is a key target, ever. Their hands are clean, no doubt.
Of course they know about it. But that doesn’t mean the school is offering the money.
Sarcasm is hard to read on the internet but that post was marinating in sarcasm
It already has. I am done with college football. I'll stick to high school. NIL sucks.
Greed and money has destroyed all of FBS college football.
and yet you don't hear word from the NCAA concerning this or that other schools have contacted other players on other teams... and all quiet on the NCAA front.... but they want to break the balls of haubaugh for buying some players some hamburgers!!!This is NUTS!
Florida could lose top recruit after massive NIL deal creates controversy
Jaden Rashada, a four-star quarterback recruit, signed with the Florida Gators to begin his college career next year. But his reported $13 million NIL deal was reneged on.
My answer is that I’m not telling them ‘no’. I’m simply much less interested in watching when I know they’re getting paid in addition to getting their schooling, room, board, books, etc. paid for. If it’s true college football I have some interest. If it’s semi-pro teams that are affiliated with colleges, I’m out.
I don't know the inner workings of collegiate sports regarding the funding of each individual sport. I do know that OSU football brings in a ton of money for the OSU athletic dept. whether it be tix. sales, merchandise sales, or tv rights revenue and I would say some of this money helps fund other athletic depts. besides football so why shouldn't the players get there cut? The mistake with NIL was the NCAA fighting it tooth and nail and being stuck with the Wild Wild West show we have now. Instead, the NCAA should have embraced NIL and help form the legislation regarding NIL so we would not have the circus that college football has currently become regarding NIL.
If the schools start to directly pay football players for legal purposes they would no longer students they would be employees and comes will a lot of legal and tax changes. First their tuition room and board they don't pay for becomes taxable. If it is a public school they and the school would have to make payments into the state retirement system. All their pay would be public knowledge and they don't want the look of the highest paid state employee to be an incoming 17-18 year old freshman QB that currently live in another state. There would also be workers comp payments and football players would also be eligible to other (costly) benefits like health, dental, eye and life insurance.
Does the idea that they've always been paid (albeit hidden from view) factor into it?
You missed the point completely. The point was they deserved to be pd. (football players) the how part is up to the experts, the other point is the NCAA should have helped with the legislation of how it was done instead of digging in their heels in opposition to NIL. And OHSAA should be doing the same because it is coming to Ohio whether people want it not. Does OHSAA want to help form the NIL framework or have the courts or the state legislature do it for them.
Possibly. I’m just not a huge college sports guy, probably because the idea of grown men going to teenagers’ houses to entice them to come to their school just seems a little gross. I prefer pro sports where it’s 100% naked greed or high school, where - in my area at least - it’s true amateur sports.
No, they won't, why would they? The players that are going to the MAC now will still be going to the MAC only the 4 star or 5-star recruits are going to get the big NIL deals. OSU and other big-time programs will still play the smaller schools and give them their million-dollar paycheck for doing so.
Wrong...you won't recognize the landscape in 10 years...
OK Nostradamus. Once again it is not the schools doling out the money, so how is this going to affect smaller schools. Big schools have dominated the college land scape for the last 60 years or more. Tell me when the last time a MAC school even finished in the top ten of College Football.
I know a couple of players at Akron...they do not get much NIL....where as the players I know at Toledo they get what I would consider a fair amount. I think a bigger issue then NIL down the road for football especially high school football...and I was saying this before what happened in Cinnci....health insurance. Now that I have muddied the waters...lol
You want to give us some ballpark numbers…”not much”? “ fair amount”?
The two players I know at Akron both said they do not get money...they got sports drinks, sun glasses, shirts. The two at Toledo said they both received money but I didn't ask how much.
In the near future, I think a guy playing at Akron might get the shirt, the sunglasses, the sports drinks…some room and board…and no scholarship. In the world of “you get what you’re worth”…a guy playing at Akron isn’t worth the cost of a bachelor’s degree.
They bleed money now...I don't know why they haven't went FBS...they cut baseball and other sports to save money...now they are bringing back baseball...are on their third coach now, if I am correct
