NIL casts cloud over college football’s early signing period

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10 thoughts on “NIL casts cloud over college football’s early signing period

  1. They need to come up with some rules on this! It is going to ruin college sports as we know them….The NCAA has been asleep at the wheel since this started. They had absolutely no clue on this which is strange because they are the most controlling institution I have ever known!

  2. Agreed with the above responses. These NIL deals are already getting out of hand. The variations of deals from one athlete to another is crazy. Seniors in high school with social media influence (fuel for this fire) are making $300K BEFORE freshman year of college. That’s absolutely changing college sports.

    1. Compared with what came before — namely the draconian limitations on students’ ability to earn income just because they’re athletes — I’ll gladly take an over-correction in this direction. If college sports‘ existence is predicated on unpaid labor, maybe it shouldn’t be saved.

    2. Sure, they get a scholarship.

      It should also be noted that the time requirements for them to be athletes in the big revenue generating sports are such that most of them can’t take full advantage of said scholarships, and they’re dissuaded from majors that take serious academic commitments.

      Go look at the Purdue football roster. Whole lot of guys learning to be salesmen. Not very many engineers. Heck, I don’t even see the majors listed for IU and Notre Dame football players.

      And that’s leaving out the travel schedules for basketball players, what with their 9pm start times for TV. Think they’re making that 7:30 am class the next day?

    3. So should students who are attending school on academic or arts scholarships also be prohibited from making money elsewhere?

  3. NIL is the response to the previous situation, which was colleges taking advantage of players in revenue sports, while also punishing kids who find themselves stuck with a new coaching staff with sitting out a year if they want to transfer.

    I’d have preferred the NCAA show some leadership then … as opposed to their response, which was to just throw everything to the winds and hope it goes so badly that people ask them to do something. A better solution was there to be crafted and they totally dropped the ball.

  4. You can always count on Nike to do the wrong thing. Also, it should surprise no one that 2 morally bankrupt programs like Oregon and Miami are leading the way

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