DurangoDuck wrote:

DucksReign wrote:

DurangoDuck wrote:

Anyone who believes all these sudden flips for any school are because a recruit has a last minute new found like for a head coach...is living in a fantasy world. Oregon fans should never again criticize the NIL.
I agree this likely wasn't based on some new found joy, but I remain steadfast in criticizing the whole concept of NIL, whether it helps the Ducks or not.  It monetizes a sport played by a bunch of immature kids at a stage they should be figuring out how to balance life, said sport and a base education, not contract deals on getting their number on a jersey.  They will get used by adults with ulterior motives. 

I think just the opposite...after decades of fake summer jobs, secret cash payments, new cars, basket weaving classes and a wide range of illegal "benefits" to entice athletes to come to a school AND stay...NIL offers real life education / income.

Given less than 2% of college football players even get drafted each year let alone actually make an NFL team, NIL gives players a chance to learn about contracts, business protocol and the like.

I chuckle when I read all the complaints about the "monetizing" of the sport...look I am old enough to remember when all the traditional powehouses monetized college football(see benefits above) virtually unchecked for decades and squashed any team which got in their way i.e. no scholarship limitations so USC could "afford" to have 120 football players on scholarship. Notre Dame has had its own TV Network (NBC) long before conference networks and "media rights deals."

Players are not responsible for monetizing the sport...universities coaches and alumni have monetized it for years(adults using kids for ulterior motives) and years to say nothing of the media.

Yet now that players are getting some benefits of the monetizing, people are horrified 😂 Please.

I am all in favor of NIL because perhaps the whole facade of pretending it is anything other than a monetized sport will cease to exist.

I'm not "horrified", nor am I complaining.  Just stating I don't think it's good for a college level sport.  Time will tell.  I hope they find a way to regulate it fairly.

Yes, I think this could quickly devolve into something horrific for college sports. I DO think the athletes deserve a piece of the pie. I hate it, but it's time to call athletes employees and they should all be working under contracts that are publicly disclosed. No more secret and sleezy NIL deals. Let;s get it all out in the open and cut the BS!!