Say what you want about Alford, but what he said about the NIL is 100% accurate.
Alford on the NIL
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He's just being honest, kind of refreshing. I've been saying it from the start, the current model will kill D1 athletics as we know it. It's already begun.
It's got to get worse before it can get better. All the school fans with NIL money are pumped they are competing in NCAA tourney with bought players.
All the fans of schools without NIL money are becoming disillusioned. The mid majors are in the worst shape---they're just farm teams for major schools to poach talent after it proves itself.
I am boycotting NCAA football/Basketbal with my eyeballs, but I still watch my Hawks.
I was a MBB season ticket holder until two years ago, now I don’t even catch half of the games on TV anymore. The bloom is off the rose for me.
Well, not quite. Woody proved you can have top 5 NIL budget and still not make it.
I think:
-He's right, in that most "NIL" is just legalized/sanctioned booster payments, and calling it "NIL" is a joke.
-Not all coaches are complaining, which should tell us something.
-If he had a fat cat sugar daddy booster at Nevada he wouldn't be saying s**t right now.
-There were similar growing pains when college coaches' salaries increased at a multiple much faster than inflation, with coaches leaving for more money, and yet athletic directors never really complained about that ruining college basketball***
-Programs will probably settle into this new model, over time, but there are going to be growing pains.
-Schools will get the players that they can afford, and they should be prepared for a sorting of "the have and the have nots".
- It hasn't been focused education for YEARS, so he can get lost with that bull crap. If anything, with NIL, players have never had a stronger incentive to stay all four years and finish their degree.
-No one ever sympathizes with the fans, who usually end up paying the freight on all of this in the end.
*** Tom Davis' first contract with Iowa in 1986 was for $75,000 per year, or about $219,000 per year adjusted for inflation. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/04/07/no-surprise-iowa-hires-davis/
-He's right, in that most "NIL" is just legalized/sanctioned booster payments, and calling it "NIL" is a joke.
-Not all coaches are complaining, which should tell us something.
-If he had a fat cat sugar daddy booster at Nevada he wouldn't be saying s**t right now.
-There were similar growing pains when college coaches' salaries increased at a multiple much faster than inflation, with coaches leaving for more money, and yet athletic directors never really complained about that ruining college basketball***
-Programs will probably settle into this new model, over time, but there are going to be growing pains.
-Schools will get the players that they can afford, and they should be prepared for a sorting of "the have and the have nots".
- It hasn't been focused education for YEARS, so he can get lost with that bull crap. If anything, with NIL, players have never had a stronger incentive to stay all four years and finish their degree.
-No one ever sympathizes with the fans, who usually end up paying the freight on all of this in the end.
*** Tom Davis' first contract with Iowa in 1986 was for $75,000 per year, or about $219,000 per year adjusted for inflation. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/04/07/no-surprise-iowa-hires-davis/
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