scholarship players can’t opt out. i like it. wth pay for a player to sign and pay expenses??? 17 them!!
It is an interesting idea I’ll say maybe a good one. However if we’re the first ones to do it it will be off putting to a lot of players regardless of their NIL money I’m afraid that’s the downside. What do y’all think?Leach floated this idea; Either you're a semi-pro employee or you're a student-athlete.
I agree with the sentiment without the expletives.
I’m not sure about the Juco thing but I think your right as I thought I’ve heard my uncle speak about it or something like it. It would be a good thing to have them pay their way. Just don’t think it would be a good idea at this stage of rebuilding. Maybe in a few years when hopefully we’re a lot more established. Like I said if we were the first to do it it might put some guys off. Which a person could say “screw em then” but honestly we need em. So I don’t know if the time is right. If it would work I’m all for it.If I remember correctly back in the old days in MS juco didn’t a certain % of players have to come from the juco’s territory? Maybe on something similar, cap the number of paid players at a certain % of the roster and have the rest be traditional “student athletes”. Doesn’t matter if you pay a guy $1 million or $10k they count the same.
Legally they are NOT getting paid to play. NIL contracts are not supposed to have any language about location or performance. There should not be anything preventing a kid from taking from a collective and go somewhere else. If that ever gets tested the collective should lose.At minimum, if they are getting paid to play and still getting scholarship money they should have to pay Federal and State
taxes on the "value received" for tuition plus room and board.
Blast away at the idea.
not a "new" member, I was not able to bring my old account over.
And a kid couldn't on scholarship to another juco unless the one whose territory he was in waved his right. I worked with a guy whose kid was in Hinds territory. The coach wouldn't offer him and wouldn't wave his rights so that he could got to one of the two other juco's that were willing to give him a scholarship.If I remember correctly back in the old days in MS juco didn’t a certain % of players have to come from the juco’s territory? Maybe on something similar, cap the number of paid players at a certain % of the roster and have the rest be traditional “student athletes”. Doesn’t matter if you pay a guy $1 million or $10k they count the same.