Biggest NIL Deals in College Sports - SOME NOT GETTING PAID

For many of these kids, it’s a way out. Using them for 4-5 years and pretending they are capable of compe in the classroom with the upper echelon of students for a degree is disingenuous to say the least. There are kids out there that a scholly is a great deal for but many athletes are just not there. Their true value is as a football player. The only way they will ever fix this is to model right along with what the nfl does. The nfl has about as perfect a system as there is. It’ll have to be tweaked for sure as a draft is just not feasible as many kids, not most, actually use football as a way to get an education. A kids opportunity to go to Vandy should not be taken away by a draft.

 

More of them SHOULD be concerned with their education, because most of them will not play football for a living.

 

I totally agree it should be the focus for everyone that has the ability. Not all are born to be engineers. There’s a reason that college is for the select few and being good at football doesn’t help much.

 

WOW that is probably the worst thing to say there are other degrees attainable for these kids or they would not be allowed into UF.

 

Agree. And those dollars also support all the non revenue sports at the schools

 

Should football players be responsible for supporting non revenue sports? The schools can spend their half however they want I guess. They will have to make players employees sooner or later if they want rules and fair competition . I just don’t see the sport surviving long term with 4-5 teams staying at the top forever. Fanbases won’t support having no chance at winning.

 

Should someone without kids pay school taxes, no drivers license for roads? It's a big picture thing.

You may be right on the future. I'm of the opinion the current model is not sustainable. The question becomes how do they get out of this mess and survive.

 

Title 9 is a financial problem too. Females don’t comprise half the athletes in the world but in order to have football baseball and basketball, men lose other sports and they have to let the women have a bunch more. I mean, I like it tgat women get those opportunities but from a financial standpoint, football having to support every other sport doesn’t seem right. Why should football support mens golf ? If they can’t make it on their own, maybe they shouldn’t have mens golf.

 

Well of course this would just move the needle toward "why have a college sports program at all." Perhaps its time to discontinue all scholarship sports and sponsor intra/extra-murals for students who are accepted into the University on their academic merit alone. That would satisfy the original concept of strengthening both mind and body and would sharply veer away from the bastardized model our leaders have let College sports devolve to.

 

That’s fine yet football is profitable. No resin to not play.

 

No doubt about it...Football and Basketball funds the rest of the entire sports programs. If Football is split off, as you suggest, why not make it a non-University stand alone entity? You can lease out the Stadium and license the trademarks and fund the rest of the sports programs from it....at least for a while. Because:

no one wants to watch minor league football....so that model would fail.

 

I agree. Not too many people like minor league football. I watch gators football (or other sports UF plays in) because of my affiliation to UF. I don't watch UGA vs Bama because I love CFB in général.

 

Me too. I used to look forward to Fall Saturdays so I could watch the College Football game of the week on ABC with Keith Jackson, especially when my team would occasionally appear. Now, its just watching the Gators because of the affinity to my school and very little else. I didn't even tune in to the last two Playoff championship games. I only watched the SEC Championship game last year because I was with my avid Alabama fan Brother.

Its starting to be similar to my NFL viewership....zippo.

 

I’m with you but mostly because when it comes to postseason, we aren’t involved. If we were in the playoffs, I think I’d be more interested in watching our competition.

 

Do you (or anyone I guess) know how the womens programs got funded before football made tons of money and that money was used to fund them? Was the endowments used? Did the school just budget it through the state?

Did the success and money made via football just cause the school to use the money that would have been budgeted for womens and non revenue sports on other things and instead used football money to replace it.

 

That's a good question. Women's varsity programs were limited to extremely limited before Title IX. Many schools just didn't have, for example, a women's basketball team . . . which is unthinkable these days for a Power 5 school. The girls mostly played like club sports or intramurals but then they became varsity sports.

 

Women didn’t play ? Lol

 

I just read these articles and was blown away! I'm really behind in this NIL world! Anyone else see these two articles?

Quarterback Jaden Rashada Said To Have Inked Largest NIL Deal In History For A High School Recruit At $9.5M - AfroTech

Smart says Georgia has some of ‘highest-paid’ players

 

Cash wins