N.I.L.: Good or Bad?

[Scout]

When a coach is making something-point-something million to coach the team, it's pretty hard to say "free education" with a straight face.

Maybe Dabo will coach Clemson for $150,000 and a free college for his kids, or grandkids?

 

[doctorquant]

Today I learned that Dabo forbids his players from availing themselves of NIL money.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Yeah ok, that explains everything

Precisely.

The student-athaletes are profiting themselves instead of being satisfied with emotional rah-rah school spirit and being grateful that they can represent Ol' State U. Can have that with Republicans who want to go back to 1906.

 

[dixiehack]

I realize holding two thoughts in tension isn't the done thing, but I feel having NIL is much better and much more fair for the athletes and at the same time NIL in conjunction with unlimited transfers* makes for a worse product as a fan.

*Subject to the courts making the injunction permanent.

 

[doctorquant]

I realize holding two thoughts in tension isn't the done thing, but I feel having NIL is much better and much more fair for the athletes and at the same time NIL in conjunction with unlimited transfers* makes for a worse product as a fan.

One thing the transfers thing (along with the post-COVID regime re: eligibility) has done for me is underpin my conviction that the "EXPLOITED ATHLETES" narrative is a crock. There are athletes whose marginal product is significantly greater than the cost of the aid package they receive, but those are a vanishingly small minority.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Today I learned that Dabo forbids his players from availing themselves of NIL money.

RIP Clemson football.

 

[HanSenSE]

I realize holding two thoughts in tension isn't the done thing, but I feel having NIL is much better and much more fair for the athletes and at the same time NIL in conjunction with unlimited transfers* makes for a worse product as a fan.

It's crazier than the free agency market in major pro sports. Gonna take me a while to get used to, if ever.

 

[playthrough]

I realize holding two thoughts in tension isn't the done thing, but I feel having NIL is much better and much more fair for the athletes and at the same time NIL in conjunction with unlimited transfers* makes for a worse product as a fan.

*Subject to the courts making the injunction permanent.

Which makes me wonder if this doesn't lead to a draft at some point. Set "salary" levels based on draft position with performance incentives. Pay more in a player's second, third, fourth year to cut down on the portal madness.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's crazier than the free agency market in major pro sports. Gonna take me a while to get used to, if ever.

I remember reading something that, when free agency first hit MLB, that Charlie Finley suggested the owners only allow one-year contracts, make everyone essentially play for their jobs every year and that except for a few stars, the rest of the players would be begging for work. Needless to say, that didn't happen.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Which makes me wonder if this doesn't lead to a draft at some point. Set "salary" levels based on draft position with performance incentives. Pay more in a player's second, third, fourth year to cut down on the portal madness.

The draft system in the big four sports is something that has been collectively bargained for by unions.

 

[playthrough]

The draft system in the big four sports is something that has been collectively bargained for by unions.

Who's to say there won't be a union in college football or basketball? I never thought we'd see what we're seeing now.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

My old boss at the Herald, Bob Sales, used to say schools should make jocks like "quarterbacks in residence" the way they have artists, poets and playwrights in residence. That'd work. You're not quite an employee, but the school pays you directly.