FC: Gene Chizik, Kiffin, and Dabo crying about NIL…
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No no no, what he meant to say is he'll quit when colleges start paying the players. Which is completely different.I thought dabo quit because of NIL..
Had the dummies at the NCAA and the Power 5 did *anything* to formalize a compensation package for players they could have bought themselves some time before chaos reigned. But, they didn’t, because they’re twits.
The Coercive Cartel was exposed when they had to face true competition. They were like a semi-retired fighter called into the ring as a last minute substitute to fight a younger, faster, sharper, more powerful, hungrier opponent. They got their a$$e$ handed to them.
College football is so screwed up now and we're so far from the top, I have no problem seeing the whole mountain get nuked.
Same. But start with coach’s salaries.
So until NIL , money spent didn’t impact coaches, programs , and recruits . It was all the “talent “ of the coaches and the prestige of the program . .
Millionaire coaches whining because someone else is getting cash equaling 1% of what the coach is getting paid?? 
Somewhere, Curt Flood and Catfish Hunter are laughing.
If the coaches want to be "leaders of men" they have not set a good example over the past 20 years. This entire problem started when college football coaches became the highest paid public employees in a particular state. They "transfer" with impunity for more money regularly. That's not to say this current model is going to befit the sport in any productive way moving forward. It is a total train-wreck in which the NCAA in their infinite wisdom didn't provide any guardrails whatsoever. Allowing unhappy players to transfer freely should have probably always been tolerated as it would be for students and employees across the nation, but the idea that star players could transfer simply to make more money at another school is asinine. I have 0 problem with players being compensated for their name and likeness, but booster slush funds for entire football units is a disaster. The schools have been corrupt for a long time, the coaches get paid entirely too much money and have been corrupt, now the players will be too. I think honest schools that care about academics should start their own leagues where there is a cap on how much coaches and players can make. I would watch that sport, I would prefer that sport, that is a sport that represents the original spirt of student athletics. Coordinators making 2.5M? Big fundraising AD's? Hired mercenary players looking to maximize earning potential in college? Just stop with it....create a semi-pro league.
The modified Ivy model is the way to go. The details would need to worked out, but athlete's would have to be accepted into the university without regard for athletic ability and NO money is allowed. The details of "no money" would be a short novel, but could be worked out over a long weekend.
College needs to be about education.
College needs to be about education.
If there had been compensation provided directly by schools and/or NCAA, I would think it would have just been a matter of time before someone brought up a lawsuit using Title IX type arguments complaining they weren’t provided equal compensation.
I don’t care for how things have been heading with many aspects.
That's what we have now.
But to your point, the NFL should step up and create some type of D-league for players who don't want to go to college. Pay them $75,000/year. That's chump change for the NFL but the league has no incentive to do that. They'll happily take advantage of the free D-league provided by the NCAA.
This is great and, for now, I love it. It's a fluster cuck. Like a car that has lost its steering and with a stuck gas pedal on a freeway with concrete barriers on both sides.
I’m too lazy to find it, but Jimbo Fisher was quoted as saying that the players have always gotten paid, the difference is that it’s now out in the open.
If that's the way you think Ivy League admissions for athletes works, then you would be wrong.
At this point just allow schools to sign players to contracts. Having to hide behind booster money as NIL is pointless. So, when a recruit visits Dabo, he can tell him exactly what they’re willing to pay him. No manipulation, no moving goalposts. Don’t talk about it - be about it.
This wouldn’t work. No one would watch, and we’d be back to bag men making drop offs in the middle of the night. Best thing about NIL is you don’t have coaches up there lying about paying players. We know who’s getting paid now - no reason to hide.
With all due respect I haven't seen any whining from Williamsport coaches.Millionaire coaches whining because someone else is getting cash equaling 1% of what the coach is getting paid??
Hey Saquon - you have a brand, right? NIL is not close to its final form…
Losing power sucks bruh.
I agree but it does strike me as rather hypocritical of those coaches that are making 6+ million a year to be bitching about it now.
College does need to be about education. OTOH, college ATHLETICS has rarely been about education. An administrator has ever sat in a college admissions office and said, "Johnny Pigskin from that rough Pennsylvania coal town is an excellent football player. Let's offer him a scholarship so he can become educated and make a better life for himself."
what? Were you asleep when Penn State football and the university was happening in the 20th century? That's exactly what was happening. How do we get the kids from all walks of like in PA educated? Do they have a special talent and can they obtain a degree? Those were the exact questions being asked for many years at PSU both by the athletic dept and the school itself.
Here's his quote: "There were a lot of NIL deals going on before all this was going on, they just weren't legal," Fisher said on The Paul Finebaum Show (h/t Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports). "Nobody told nobody."
The Grand Experiment was a great ideal but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?? I guy most of us respect and admire loved that concept. But even he wasn't so naive to believe student athletes played sports by day and were hunkered down in the library at night looking for solutions to the problems of mankind. Another concept he liked was, "We want your money but we don't want your two cents." That's a man who knew what the reality was.
What I don't get is their name, image, and likeness is worth literally nothing (maybe $7.25 an hour... maybe) on its own. Only after they put on a top universities uniform does it gain any sort of value. Kind of ironic.
The great part is you don't have to watch or follow any of if you don't want to, but then what would you have to b!tch about?
Losing power sucks bruh.
I'm sure Dabo thinks Catholic priests should be the only ones to tamper with young men.
I don't really follow it as closely any more. Trust me, if it is a nice day in the fall I would play golf over watch a CFB game. A lot of people around me feel the same way. I didn't renew my season tickets and other season ticket holders are thinking about doing the same.
The problem is that the stupidest people are the loudest. Most Americans think most of this **** has gone too far, but are afraid to speak up because the loons in power will send the idiot mob against them.
That is an excellent and fair evaluation of a football life well lived. Unfortunately on the extremes some chose to hate while others believe a childlike fantasy.
Worse, they had won and decided to go for even more when the writing was on the wall that they would lose. As someone said earlier, twit is highly appropriate.
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