Miami coach retiring mid season and the implications of NIL
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The new rule in college athletics is "shit or get off the pot". I think some of these older coaches will bail, both FB and BB, some of them will take the KF/Dabo/FMcC route and supplement their rosters in miniscule increments, while the rest will jump in with both feet.
Also worth noting that his Final 4 team was like half transfers
If college sports are now professional sports, then this status should be reflected with contracts. Give athletes a revenue-sharing agreement similar to those in other professional sports. An athlete signs a 3-year contract when they enter the college league. If a player leaves as a free agent for another college team, then the college from which the player leaves receives another roster spot as compensation, and the team receiving the player loses one. (Unless the player goes to a lower competitive division.) If a team doesn't want to renew the athletic contract after three years, the college is still obligated to pay the cost of attendance for another year unless the player transfers. NIL deals are out of the college teams' hands. The players and their agents can seek such compensation just as they do in other professional sports.
If this is the case the athlete should also agree to certain performance metrics in those contracts.
Money for nothing is the current situation.
I wish there was a way to have an NIL cap like the NFL has a salary cap, but since NIL comes from boosters not the school that probably can't happen. I also think there should be a limit to how many times a player can transfer.
there is; collective bargaining. which may be the way to go at this point, because college athletics are probably making their way through their first swirl around the drain.
BTW, always like larranaga, going back to his days at george mason
The NIL should cancel the portal. In other words, you sign a contract, you are bound to it. You want to reneg on the contract, you sit out of ball for however long you had left on the contract. If you choose to bypass NIL and not sign for anything, you can move freely about.
it is pretty screwed up that college sports has essentially become all free agency, all the time, and yet the nfl isn't.
NFL would make a billion a year on jersey sales alone doing that.
I'll never give a dime to these little bastards.
Hopefully the U of I will be able to sustain an athletic department without your $50 dollar donation.
Exactly. NIL is a joke as is, but excuse me if I dont feel terrible for the coaches that have made millions coaching these kids.
Honestly, it's kinda bizarre, if not full-on pathetic, that people actually seem to get their rocks off by doing so. I don't understand it at all. Like some star****er groupie.
Maybe you should hang out in the Nebraska board….Clark is doing just fine. So many sponsorship possibilities out there.
I don't feel bad for anybody involved in this. The coaches got paid, the universities got their publicity, tv got its content, fans got every game on tv, and the players got paid.
I can promise you that this horse racing model where every group is out to get his own and not further the broader product will ultimately lead to its demise.
I can promise you that this horse racing model where every group is out to get his own and not further the broader product will ultimately lead to its demise.
The only thing I disagree with is I do feel bad for the fans because you're right, it'll never be close to the same going forward which is to bad for the younger generations that will never get how cool college football and basketball was at one time. But F the rest of them.
I’m certainly not going to be feeling bad for coaches making millions but how exhausting is it to have to be rebuilding your team from the bottom up year after year? At least pro sports has a general manager and contracts. College sports is a complete free for all right now. There is no loyalty in college sports and my interest is virtually non existent anymore.
The fans would be losing their minds if they went back to 30 years ago when half or more of the games weren't on tv. The fans fed this whole boondoggle that we have now
Just depends on where you live, living here in Iowa every Iowa football game has been on for the last 30 years of my lifetime. Now if you life in Texas your probably not getting all those Iowa games so I get that. Basketball is a different story, 15 years ago they were all on TV now they are not in the preseason sadly.
Larranaga didn’t imply jack shit Northern….He flat out SAID it! And he is right…..The $$ and the portal as it exists today in college sports, has put the inmates in-charge of the insane asylum. If there ever were any adults “in the room” they have been removed.
This is a case that in a couple of years will absolutely prove what has long been understood by most sensible people…….Money IS the root of all evil. Money isn’t evil by itself but $$ for its own sake is an illness. (It is one of “The 7 Deadly Sins” we are all familiar with.)
Did he complain when coaches salaries are buy-out clauses were spiking through the roof?
That is NOT the coaches problem. His argument is 100% spot on. What we have in big time college sports is unsustainable……and it will demand big time changes in how the game is supervised/regulated. What can possibly go wrong with a bunch of acne scarred faced kids demanding more money to play a GAME?!
These aren’t comparable things.
You don’t look at the vp of sales at McDonald’s and ask why they have it better than the line cook.
Most assistant coaches are only making 3-5x more money than the players prior to nil. There are only a handful of players in college more important than an OC/dc.
With NIL and the transfer portal I'm afraid many of these student athletes will never get a degree. Transferring credits from school to school usually don't all apply to a chosen major at a new school. I worry that many of these athletes are like most of us at their age, thinking it will be a long time before the get "old" so they are just living in the moment. Rich in your 20s and 30s with no investment or savings and no degree to fall back on.
They're not in it for a degree, room and board, food and working their way to the NFL.
All about making NIL money now.
Hellsbells, with the portal rules and NIL rules as they are, does a kid even have to go to class?
That's true I guess, I can remember getting most of the Illinois football games on tv as a kid though not all. Northwestern was almost never on tv. For some reason, I think that most of the Northern Illinois games were on tv. iirc almost every Illinois and DePaul basketball games were on tv
I still have no idea how proctor could do what he did last year from a schooling standpoint.
They are absolutely comparable things. I don’t love NIL, but if a McDonalds VP was making a bunch of money because the restaurant workers weren’t allowed to earn any money, I would find it hypocritical if that same VP whined when the workers finally got to earn money. Why were you okay with a coach earning $5+ million and then get upset if a player makes money?
On the only a handful of players more important than the OC/DC, do you believe in capitalism? Boosters and collectives could spend more on an OC/DC if they thought it was the most important. However, it seems like those with money think QBs are more important because they are spending money on them.
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