NCAA finally waves white flag on NIL

With all due respect, that sounds like silly Boomer hypothesizing which, even if it came true, is way more than offset by the opportunities that arise from this. Sounding even more dumb by the fact that players in the big two sports have watched their coaches get fired, and proceed to make up to 10 figures doing nothing. So *now* they are going to get pissed that a teammate is making some bank?
I'm thinking that these young adults are going to get creative, and its going to be fun to watch.

 

It’s been going on for more than 100 years. George Gipp was getting paid while playing at old Notre Dame.

 

I think this is a good take. I knew a kid who was a kicker UCF, he was making money on YouTube with his kicking ability. And he had to stop or quit football because the NCAA wouldn't let him use his own image. He eventually left the team because he was making bank. That kid on a team now can make six figures, probably, now if he can generate a following on social.

 

So sick of seeing the network tv sports personalities get all the college commercial ad spots. It sickens me. Bilas, Herbstreit, Vitale, et al. Same frigging half a dozen people. Time to get some new blood in there.

 

Good god, has anyone besides a TV exec said, "I need more Herbstreit in my life!"
Look at how many ads this guy does

Kirk Herbstreit TV Commercials

 

Rugby Union went away from the amateur code sometime around the 1995 RWC. A guy from my club was one of the first to go pro, signing with Japan. In addition to playing rugby, he had some sort of job with with the club owner.

Prior to that, it was an open secret that guys were getting paid, referred to as shamateurism. Boot money, no show jobs, things like that. Even the English had to admit it was better to just put everything on the table.

I'd love to see golf stop romanticizing amateurs, most of whom are basically full time golfers who have their pro career mapped out.

 

Now that the players will be paid, cash, plus scholarship, room,board,medical and clothing and the coaching staffs for football and basketball will be paid $10-30 million a year, the schools should stop having the students-academics (as opposed to the student athletes), who are getting as in debt as the players are making bank, pay student activities fees, and any sports related fees. Now that we’ve established that Football, men’s and to a certain extent women’s basketball as well as some baseball have very little to do with education and all to do with money, let’s skip the facade that college sports are part of the educational portion of a student’s university experience.
Charge for intramural sports if you have to, but the athletic departments should kickback something to the student-academics.

 

I don’t disagree with that. He is the epitome of the young guy who got on ESPN at 25 and, 25 years later, doesn't want to lose any of it. (Again, he's also not interesting either.)

Places with good culture (Alabama/Stanford in football come to mind for me) will be fine in NIL.

But a lot of places don’t have culture.

The smart programs will have a true plan in place for the impact, perhaps with in-house specialists in "team building" for the financial discrepancies that will emerge within a team and between athletes on different programs. Also, a department that helps with taxes. All of us who have been freelancers throughout our past newspaper days know that can quickly turn into a mess.

 

If anything about NIL is going to soak up player's time and efforts, it's building a social media presence. I'm sure that the big players will have people who work on doing this for them, whether it's P5 power schools or actual players who seek professional assistance. There are a lot of ways to spin cash off of the internet. It's a question of who thinks of them first, finds them, who comes up with original ideas.

Some of it is also going to depend on who is photogenic and well spoken enough to make a good spokesman. If you're a great player but you're an idiot in front of a microphone you're going to be limited to something on the order of still pictures and personal appearances, endorsements that are simple.

 

Had lunch today with the head coach of a D1 non-revenue sport. He's a little concerned some of his smaller program donors ($500-$1,000) will give straight to the kids now, instead of the program, which would really hurt him since his program isn't funded at a high level.

 

Good!

 

Yeah, because the players will have money but the program may not have as much for the institutional support it needs to operate at a P5 level. Win win!