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Off-Topic Lane says what everyone knows… (NIL Bags)

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Did Lane feel the same when he was at Alabama? Oh, that’s right nobody was paying players before NIL agreements.
 
The only difference is that the money is being transferred 'over' the table instead of under it. Players have been getting paid since TV deals were signed. It's big business now!
 
Nothing wrong with NIL.

If that's the argument, STFU please. The kids deserve the wage.

If a 17 year old prodigy programmer can make millions, so too can a football player.

We have to bend with the times while preserving competitive college ball. Remember, Miami and 'Bama used to have over 100+ scholarship players.
 
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NIL is whack.

If you don't want a free degree and an audition for the NFL, go work at Walmart or pay your own way to college, bub. Stop crying.
 
Expanded playoffs, NIL, portal.

This will be the NFL but without elite players in the world. Why would anyone who didn’t attend 4-5 schools tune in all Saturday. All the nuance that made it great is going be gone. Does anyone watch minor league sports?
 
kgranger17 said:
Nothing wrong with NIL.

If that's the argument, STFU please. The kids deserve the wage.

If a 17 year old prodigy programmer can make millions, so too can a football player.

We have to bend with the times while preserving competitive college ball. Remember, Miami and 'Bama used to have over 100+ scholarship players.
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If you can’t see the slippery slope and what’s at the bottom, then you should probably check out of any discussion. Kids deserve to be paid, bro! is about as simple and myopic a take as it gets.
 
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Generally, almost all professional sports leagues have rules in place for competitive balance of some kind.

College football has nothing, and there is almost no oversight left, since the NCAA, under Emmert, has let the inmates (the
money and power hungry conferences) run the asylum.

Kids deserve a stipend of some sort, but, once they get one, you aren't an amateur league anymore, you are a professional one, and you probably want to make sure everyone is playing by a standard set of rules.

College football is really at the wild west stage, which sounds fun, until you realize that competitive balance gets all out of whack.
 
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dycane said:
If you can’t see the slippery slope and what’s at the bottom, then you should probably check out of any discussion. Kids deserve to be paid, bro! is about as simple and myopic a take as it gets.
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Free market has always won, you fool.

Yet, here you are mocking an 18 year old making money from their talent.


You really ain't that smart, fella. I'm not really sure you understand the context of the modern world. Do you really think we should prevent 21-22 year olds from making money based on their talents? You think you're smarter and more just than the free market, but you're scum. Let others live free.
 
kgranger17 said:
Free market has always won, you fool.

Yet, here you are mocking an 18 year old making money from their talent.


You really ain't that smart, fella. I'm not really sure you understand the context of the modern world. Do you really think we should prevent 21-22 year olds from making money based on their talents? You think you're smarter and more just than the free market, but you're scum. Let others live free.
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Are you against salary caps or other competitive measures in sports to maintain a healthy product for fans so money still comes in? Players can get paid but let’s get some structure here
 
The entire college football industry has become a multi-billion dollar product. Of course, television is the primary driving force for this explosion of revenue. The only way to put the genie back into the bottle and “save college football“ would be to take it off television, forcing people to go watch the games in the stadiums—the way it began. That of course will never happen. So college football will continue to become a caricature of itself, and we will all have fond, nostalgic memories of when the kids played for their school and not their paycheck.
 
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407cane said:
it's an absolute sh*t show and it will ruin the sport imo

they've opened the can of worms and it can never be closed
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They are adults getting paid for work. It will not ruin anything. They've been paying players for this work for a long time. My mentor growing up told me all of the stories of the money he was paid just to visit schools (like Michigan, U of Chicago, etc.), pay for plays, fake jobs, envelopes with money from no one knows where showing up on dorm room pillows and that was before World War II. Its literally been around since collegiate sports have existed.
 
88 said:
Are you against salary caps or other competitive measures in sports to maintain a healthy product for fans so money still comes in? Players can get paid but let’s get some structure here
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It will be a free for all with minimal structure - like it always has been - until the players can collectively bargain...just like professional sports can. Those competitive measures are implemented because all sides - labor, ownership, league - agree to those measures to a certain extent. The NCAA has long had its league and ownership dictating terms and exploiting young men for labor while giving them no access to the wealth being generated without the power in numbers professional sports athletes have with their unions.

Just because there is some disclosure going on, doesn't mean a lot of very similar pay schemes weren't already implemented around college football since forever.
 
The NIL deal allows us to match the bag game legally without depending on a Ponzi scheming rat for help. It needs to be tweaked to balance things out more, but it's a step in the right direction to keep our kids home. Texas did right, offering what they did to keep their OL home. I rather them there than at Alabama. UT never wins squat anyways, so it doesn't matter much. FL, CA, and TX aren't going to be easy pickings anymore.

We need to lay low no because we are already being investigated, but come next year, it's NIL bag-dropping season.

I don't think Miami will spend what they did on Mario, our new AD, and future spending if they didn't feel confident in this new NIL deal CFB world.

Plus, I want to play NCAA for PS5, so yeah.
 
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He's right, a lot of guys are going to go where they can make the most. And there isn't anything wrong with that.
 
NIL will be wild for the next 2-3 years. It will settle when people aren't getting any ROI. Boosters are burning cash right now because they think it will make a difference, but when they realize their teams still suck they'll be more selective
 
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