College Athletes can now be paid directly by schools to play

[Khyber53]

Honestly, sports fuged up education.

And it isn't even close to be done.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

NIL is terrible. This is terrible.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

"You scored the lowest score possible on the SAT? But you play QB? Welcome to Harvard!"

"You're a sophomore in high school? But you're the best RB prospect in 50 years? Welcome to Michigan! You start tomorrow!"

[kungfoodude]

16 hours ago, csx said:

As entertaining as college football is it has ruined everything about college sports.

Agreed. I really hope it collapses so that college athletics can be interesting again. 

[MillionDollarCam]

A CBA will be coming in the next few years.

Also, I suspect the other 27 conferences to eventually break away from the NCAA and form some other entity because the NCAA approved the settlement without giving any thought to the little guys.

I suspect we’ll then see a group of teams outside of those 27 conferences that are on board with paying players join together and create a 5th power conference to go along with the P4. Basically G5 schools that generate $50M+ in revenue (JMU, Fresno, Boise, UNLV, Colorado State, SDSU, UConn, Liberty, USF, Memphis, ECU, etc.).

Edited May 25, 2024 by MillionDollarCam

[PantherPhann89]

This is terrible for college athletes as a whole and I completly disagree that college athletes should've been receiving a portion  of the money they generate from the college they represent. 

I think he colleges, that were, making money from Names, Images and Likenesses should have been forced to use that money to decrease overall tuition cost to accomplish what the purpose of the institution, which is educating the people, instead they've all been linking their pockets and raising tuition every year. 

Now they're going to monetize these kids directly because they don't give a Fat Albert about them, but their development, not their mental health, Nothing!

[jasonluckydog]

What is the market for overweight 50 year old bald men that can play QB? Asking for a friend.

[Davidson Deac II]

I am wondering if it will eventually get to the point that a guy like Bryce Young, if he fails in the NFL, can go back to college and pick up where he left off and make a lot of money.  

[Tbe]

1 hour ago, Davidson Deac II said:

I am wondering if it will eventually get to the point that a guy like Bryce Young, if he fails in the NFL, can go back to college and pick up where he left off and make a lot of money.  

Funny… get a 2nd, 3rd, 4th degree.

Thats terrible for the sport though because that behavior would block opportunities for younger guys which would impact the NFL down the line.

[strato]

It sort of does open up an NFL farm league though. 

[AggieLean]

Sucks for my small university. Oh well I guess

[Chaos]

So what happens when the kid underwhelms relative to his compensation to play college football for Whatever State University?  Can they now be cut/fired, because they're employees more so than student athletes, or will the "their just kids, let them grow" narrative remain?  Business is business, can't have the cake and eat it too.

[MillionDollarCam]

35 minutes ago, Chaos said:

So what happens when the kid underwhelms relative to his compensation to play college football for Whatever State University?  Can they now be cut/fired, because they're employees more so than student athletes, or will the "they’re just kids, let them grow" narrative remain?  Business is business, can't have the cake and eat it too.

Think questions like this among other things is why we’ll see a CBA in a couple years. Eventually I think we’ll see college athletes, at least the elite one’s, signing contracts.

[LinvilleGorge]

6 hours ago, PantherPhann89 said:

This is terrible for college athletes as a whole and I completly disagree that college athletes should've been receiving a portion  of the money they generate from the college they represent. 

I think he colleges, that were, making money from Names, Images and Likenesses should have been forced to use that money to decrease overall tuition cost to accomplish what the purpose of the institution, which is educating the people, instead they've all been linking their pockets and raising tuition every year. 

Now they're going to monetize these kids directly because they don't give a Fat Albert about them, but their development, not their mental health, Nothing!

Ummm... they've been monetizing them for decades. Now they're just forced to actually pay the help.