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I agree with OP, but sadly this has been us the last two decades except for the end of HC tenures when blame shifted to the HC

Glad that has changed in just 7 short months
 
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k9cane said:
so basically they are now crying about money being over the table(and legaL)...

as opposed to under the table(and illegal)
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It's deeper than that...

They were FINE with a system that paid $250K in ILLEGAL money to a recruit, and ensnared him in a level of tax fraud that essentially guaranteed he would not be able to blow the whistle on the illegality...

But the are NOT FINE with a system that pays $1M in LEGAL money, with income tax withholding, to a recruit, and which does NOT bind the recruit to a particular school due to being a criminal accomplice.

I'm tryyyying to remember a system where minor below-prevailing-market amounts of money were paid to procure future labor by physically fit individuals in the southeast United States, and where it was impossible to escape from that servitude...someone help me out here...

EDIT: and for the record, this was not the only type of arrangement like this in the United States in earlier history, let's not forget how the railroads from the midwest to the West Coast were built, I'm just using the southeast US because most of the complaining over NIL seems to emanate from SEC schools...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
It's deeper than that...

They were FINE with a system that paid $250K in ILLEGAL money to a recruit, and ensnared him in a level of tax fraud that essentially guaranteed he would not be able to blow the whistle on the illegality...

But the are NOT FINE with a system that pays $1M in LEGAL money, with income tax withholding, to a recruit, and which does NOT bind the recruit to a particular school due to being a criminal accomplice.

I'm tryyyying to remember a system where minor below-prevailing-market amounts of money were paid to procure future labor by physically fit individuals in the southeast United States, and where it was impossible to escape from that servitude...someone help me out here...

EDIT: and for the record, this was not the only type of arrangement like this in the United States in earlier history, let's not forget how the railroads from the midwest to the West Coast were built, I'm just using the southeast US because most of the complaining over NIL seems to emanate from SEC schools...
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People do not like when the status quo is ****ed with. That is especially so when those same people hold more influence and wealth than those that are trying to **** with said status quo.
 
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Mackmiller974 said:
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Tennessee is a clean football powerhouse, only way they lose out on a recruit to Miami is because Miami threw 15 Million dollars per year at him. 😂
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How tf did you add that long *** gif? I can't post anything over 5 secs because of @bAndrew server.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
It's deeper than that...

They were FINE with a system that paid $250K in ILLEGAL money to a recruit, and ensnared him in a level of tax fraud that essentially guaranteed he would not be able to blow the whistle on the illegality...

But the are NOT FINE with a system that pays $1M in LEGAL money, with income tax withholding, to a recruit, and which does NOT bind the recruit to a particular school due to being a criminal accomplice.

I'm tryyyying to remember a system where minor below-prevailing-market amounts of money were paid to procure future labor by physically fit individuals in the southeast United States, and where it was impossible to escape from that servitude...someone help me out here...

EDIT: and for the record, this was not the only type of arrangement like this in the United States in earlier history, let's not forget how the railroads from the midwest to the West Coast were built, I'm just using the southeast US because most of the complaining over NIL seems to emanate from SEC schools...
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Great points up and down. I find the same irony in the uproar over young men making money legally. Which also permits WE THE TAXPAYER to get our cut of their income as it does from all other income. Don’t ever forget that the IRS collecting tax revenue is a good thing for those of us who are forced to pay taxes on our income. And that the IRS has been pushing for this income to be over the table and taxable for years.

Imagine the conference commissioners complaining to members of Congress that players are getting taxable income, and asking for that to be regulated. Congress loves taxable income. They hate untaxed income which is what the old system was.

And imagine a bunch of old men, I won’t get into race because its irrelevant, complaining that young people are being paid for their labor. I hope people understand that you are giving them a real history and civics lesson.
 
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I mean, kinda goes without saying, but Tennessee hasn't done **** on the field in years. The ONLY reasons they were in the picture for FM were because they rather publicly threw a ton of $cratch at Iamaleava and the possibility that FM would a) want to play with him and/or b) get a similar deal. Make no mistake though, Tennessee got beaten at their own game if this was an NIL loss. I tend to think it had a whole lot to do with the relationship with Mario and Mirabal. But either way no one swooped in and beat Tennessee by playing dirty.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
It's deeper than that...

They were FINE with a system that paid $250K in ILLEGAL money to a recruit, and ensnared him in a level of tax fraud that essentially guaranteed he would not be able to blow the whistle on the illegality...

But the are NOT FINE with a system that pays $1M in LEGAL money, with income tax withholding, to a recruit, and which does NOT bind the recruit to a particular school due to being a criminal accomplice.

I'm tryyyying to remember a system where minor below-prevailing-market amounts of money were paid to procure future labor by physically fit individuals in the southeast United States, and where it was impossible to escape from that servitude...someone help me out here...

EDIT: and for the record, this was not the only type of arrangement like this in the United States in earlier history, let's not forget how the railroads from the midwest to the West Coast were built, I'm just using the southeast US because most of the complaining over NIL seems to emanate from SEC schools...
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They were fine with it because they also had the NCAA complicit with it and ensuring that they were the only ones who could pay out that illegal money. NIL has destroyed their monopoly on paying players.
 
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Poptimus said:
I feel like we have entered into the Upside Down world from Stranger Things and we are not just flush with cash, but freely tossing it around in a completely legal manner, meanwhile $EC schools like UF struggle to scrounge up some pennies for recruits.

And I love it.
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Does that make Mario…Vecna?!

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