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Not ruined, just in transition to a place where the players generating the billion$ of revenue get a cut.
I don't think I have a problem with the players getting a cut. (though I would argue a $150,000 education is pretty good compensation).
No coincidence the rate of top tier Hoops coaches finally saying goodbye. Roy, Coach K and Jay Wright all hang it up within a short period once this becomes the rule.
Wow - hadn't heard this.
There have been imbalances forever in college sports with advantages for recruiting. I guess all of the SEC schools now have competition for paying athletes that they have been doing under the table with legitimate payments now.
I don't care what you would rather watch. Colleges shouldn't be paying athletes. It isn't a remotely sustainable system. There only going to be about 10 teams who can field competive football teams and most universities are going to just continue to bleed money.
Buddy there’s like 12 or 14 teams total who have made the playoff in the 8 years it’s been going on. Nothing is going to change except the players get paid. Syracuse still has no chance.
The comparison to SMU breaks down in that we don't have Craig James killing 5 hookers today
I mean, there's rumors of Pitt WR Jordan Addison being offered $3 million in NIL deals to transfer. IMO, doesn't matter if we think a $150k scholarship is good compensation (for example), because clearly his services are worth a lot more than that on a semi-open market. For years, he'd either have to be paid under the table, or be very unfairly compensated if his only compensation is a scholarship was $150k but his services were worth 20x that amount.
Yes, this is like bookies having a complaint when on line gambling comes to their state.
The next possible and very interesting development is when boosters start to decrease coaching pay in order to increase the talent procurement budget.
Correct, but there are intangible benefits to the institutions, such as increases in student applications, that can be driven by athletics.
Patrick Hruby tweeted earlier that schools were just mad that players were getting a cut of the rake now.
Yeah, players used to transfer because they didn’t play. Now it’s basically free agency. They’re transferring because schools are offering them more money, there’s a difference.
My typical excuse for my sloppy typing is drunkenness, but I am currently blaming COVID
Plus they can only transfer once without "penalty". It's not like they can just transfer every year
I am wondering if we see players staying in college longer because, "Hmm I am making 3 million here. Do I want to go sign a rookie minimum deal of 600k in the NFL?"
Really depends on how much money we wind up talking about. 2nd rounder in nfl getting between 2 and 4.5M between signing bonus and that 1st year salary.
Then I guess I’m a hypocrite. I see coaches leaving for other schools as part of the deal. Besides coaches get fired all the time, so of course they’re going to look to get paid.
Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky, who I'm told is pretty good at basketball, will be a good test case. His reps believe he'll pull in around $2 million in deals if he returns for his senior season.
Part of what deal?
It’s only part of the deal because that’s the way the system has been set up to keep money from the players.
But who is committing what and when? You saying there's some sort of contract in place prior to signing the letter of intent. So you can sign a contract agreeing to pay someone before signing the letter of intent, just not pay someone prior to that? What's the point of even having that restriction then?
But if the coach decides to leave, then the school gets a nice payday as well. Maybe there should be a transfer fee like there is in soccer.
