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Year One and I am not impressed so far. The only player seeming to live up to the dollars being paid is the QB out at 'Bama. The rest of the high profile players being paid buckets of cash have performed underwhelmingly to date- KT among them if I can be so bold.
My real concern is that with players receiving sponsor cash that this will trickle down to reduced giving to athletic departments, which will trigger more increases to the price of tickets and concessions to a game anymore. And like at Autzen, where you no longer have re-entry privileges it can really spike the cost to attend a game.
What does this all look like in five years? Ten?
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Jiffy Jeff wrote:
Year One and I am not impressed so far. The only player seeming to live up to the dollars being paid is the QB out at 'Bama. The rest of the high profile players being paid buckets of cash have performed underwhelmingly to date- KT among them if I can be so bold.
My real concern is that with players receiving sponsor cash that this will trickle down to reduced giving to athletic departments, which will trigger more increases to the price of tickets and concessions to a game anymore. And like at Autzen, where you no longer have re-entry privileges it can really spike the cost to attend a game.
What does this all look like in five years? Ten?
When the discussion about players first began, I did feel they deserved help if needed...I never realized it would get to this. I'm afraid we are seeing the slow demise of college sports. How much will the "Big Uglies" get..the ones without whom no QB or RB can be successful? I dunno.
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I am unwilling to pass judgement barely a month into the season. Nor do I believe it represents the end of college sports.
Will college sports be different? Yes but different doesn't mean the end.
What I do know is athletes have been paid ILLEGALLY for decades and the NCAA was a terrible administrator of the rules regarding those illegalities and all related issues.
Which begs the question if college sports didn't end with illegal payments, cheating and a host of other problems with an inept organization (NCAA) overseeing it...why would it end with "legal" money?
College sports is "big business" and honestly I think the NIL gives athletes an opportunity to work and live in that "business world." Sounds like a good college education to me... certainly more realistic than reading a text book.
And just like the "real" business world...if the athletes don't pay attention to their business skills(the sports they play) they will see the opportunities disappear...playing time, sponsors, reputation and so forth.
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This is crazy-cool for our UofO!
I wonder if it'll be cool with the NCAA.
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