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the $13.85 million high schooler
brave new world, ain't it Miranda?
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OldMacManaic wrote:
brave new world, ain't it Miranda?
That is just insane.
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worth remembering, in the context of SC & BruCru bolting the Pac-12, that this started in Cali. the legislature passed and Gov Newsom signed a bill enabling athletes to profit from their NIL, effectively neutering the authority of the NCAA to regulate (not that it did much, anyway). other states followed suit.
so right now we have no uniform national standard on NIL; a crazy-quilt patchwork of individual state laws (). the Wild, Wild, West, and there's no sheriff in town. this is the pond where the Ducks (and everybody else) have to swim.
I can easily see football becoming even more detached from the university and from conference affiliations over the next 5-10 years. evolving into some kind of English-soccer Super League, where the only oversight or regulation comes from the TV networks. expansion of the season and the number of games. Tuesday night college football. the concerns of the fans who actually buy tickets and donate to the program will take a back seat.
was about a decade ago when UO received significant sanctions for paying a non-staff person to assist in contacting potential recruits (a service he performed for a dozen other schools). seems now like something outta the 18th Century.
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Honestly, it feels anymore like I am cheering for laundry than players. There is virtually no loyalty anymore from the mercenary coaches and mercenary players- at a level where the mission is student first and athlete second. And let's be honest, these NIL collectives rely on generosity of giving, nothing more. If the NIL collective at a mega school hits lean times it can be a kick in the junk to the program for years to come. Even with this all out in the open, it is still shady AF.
Yeah, this is truly evolving to the haves and have-nots and it will not be long before a new league emerges apart from the have-nots occupying G5 conferences and lower. Any time you have an arms race, it tends to whittle away pretty quickly who can and who cannot keep up. And even at the P5 level, there will be programs that will fall to the side, leaving a handful of mega-programs that can sustain their programs without direct university monies.
Can't wait for fall camp to wrap up so I know exactly who has committed to play for the Ducks in 2023. Up to that point, it is all in flux...
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Linked article behind paywall.
You guys seriously pay dues to "theathletic" ??
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Linked article behind paywall.
You guys seriously pay dues to "theathletic" ??
Here is where I read the story: no paywall..
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Linked article behind paywall.
You guys seriously pay dues to "theathletic" ??Here is where I read the story: no paywall..
Thanks O.R.G.
I feel you Jiffy Jeff. This whole thing makes we want to puke.
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1) Late last year I signed up for an annual subscription to The Athletic for $1 a month via some type of promo. Well worth it. I believe their standard rate is $7.99 a month which I will not pay but they have promos all the time.
2) I still believe recruiting itself is the problem...the idolizing, worshipping and glorification of high school kids is absurd... before they have even played a minute. As long as the kids themselves, head coaches, fans and the media promote that warped nonsense and often via social media...it will only get worse. To me every high school recruit in every sport is a 1* until they prove otherwise.
3) Maybe I am in the minority but NIL and the Transfer Portal don't bother me at all and fuel some growing dislike of college football. It is all good. "Dirty money" has always been a part of college sports. I find it amusing since it is now legal, people are outraged!?😂
What I find much much more annoying and definitely impacting my enjoyment factor are rules and how those rules are officiated; the officials themselves; the instant replay review process; players getting flagged for a penalty that prevents them from playing in the NEXT game and millionaire head coaches being so arrogant with their game management decisions they defy common sense.
I really don't care as much about the process which creates the product I am watching because essentially all of it takes place out of my view, as I do about the process of watching the product itself.
NIL isn't going to make my viewing experience awful. But you keep taking 5 minutes to review a play; hiring incompetent officials and I have to watch arrogant millionaire head coaches decide to go for it on 4th and 7 from their ownd 30 yard line in the third quarter because their punter is having a bad day...I will gladly move on.
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