NCAA finally waves white flag on NIL

A lot of FCS and D2 schools use athletics to boost student numbers. Locally, D3 Hiram has something like 50 guys on the baseball team. That's almost 5 percent of its students, just on one team. That's $2.6 million in revenue to field a team that nobody knows exists, and it's one of many teams. Schools like those in the MAC have plenty of students with or without athletes. They don't need them to exist. I'm not sure why they have sports at all. They add nothing.

 

Rosters will be easier to manage and you won't have anywhere near as many 5th or 6th-year guys like every season since 2020 because the athletes won't have the extra year for Covid as an option. Athletes will be done in four or five years, the historical norm.

 

Ole Miss has a sophomore running back who bought his NIL-funded Mercedes through Nick Saban’s dealership in Birmingham.

 

That's an awesome story. Welcome to College Sports Inc., baby. Share the wealth!

 

What happens when your big NIL booster’s financial empire collapses? The Miami Hurricanes are about to find out.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/lo...ueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

Mario Cristobal suddenly longs for Eugene.

 

That’s a hell of a story about Ruiz and his companies. Dang.

 

I'll reserve judgment on that until Georgia actually loses a game.

 

That story was long enough to take up the Herald's A section and B section. All two remaining reporters get the day off.

 

This was supposed to an eight-team event in Vegas with promises of massive NIL payouts. Apparently the NCAA raised a red flag a couple of weeks back and now …



Pretty loaded field too.

 

The Players Era Festival dies. I am amused.

First, they said the system was unfair because the players weren’t sufficiently compensated, and I agreed.
Then they said there should be no limits on what they could make while getting a free education on the side, and I paused.
Then the vast majority of intercollegiate sports died.

While those in which I was most interested survived, I grieved at least mildly for the thousands of students who no longer had opportunities to compete beyond high school.