Good points but it doesn’t seem to diminish enthusiasm from fans of Texas, Oregon, Ohio State et. al. Unfortunately, Iowa doesn’t appear to have the kind of wealthy donors who can/will support this at Iowa.
You are really going to be upset when revenue sharing starts
That won’t help with this NIL stuff. It’s in addition to NIL.
Yes, I know that
NIL isn't the problem. The lack of rules is. And now you're about to see how that stupidity plays out in the larger society, so buckle up.
Nobody gives a shyte about your political drivel.
Genie is out of the bottle and this is the "new normal." - buckle up
Your Queen raised a billion dollars, had more billionaire donors, and ended up 20 million in debt. Seems like that could've done a lot of good elsewhere.
This is a discussion about football. Take your ignorant CNN talking points somewhere else.
I think people care about the topic OP brings up. Personally, my interest in college and pro sports has dwindled significantly in recent years. I’ll watch and cheer, but Iowa winning and losing doesn’t have nearly the impact on me as it did as recently as 5 years ago. The transfer portal and NIL are big reasons why. In a way it’s making me despise college football. So I think, if I’m feeling this way, there are many others who are, too. I have too many other things that require my money than some 18-22 year-old football or basketball player.
Your first sentence seems on point. College football has entered a dark place but this can't go on forever one way or the other. Corporations and high dollar donors won't want to continue this indefinitely. The future seems hard to predict but as this plays out it seems certain the landscape will look different with some time than it does now. I feel grateful that with all his flaws Kirk has put an emphasis on maintaining stability and I think it will pay dividends down the road.
That doesn't make him wrong. This whole thing has gone so far out of bounds. The original lawsuits were for players to be compensated for use of their likeness in mkt. (When they actually had some marketable skill). Now we have high school juniors and mercenaries getting paid millions and some of those "players" haven't done a thing in college football. They're being paid on their supposed potential, and we have fans lining up to support this nonsense. Did someone call for "ludicrous"? And NO not the State Farm commercial either....
And yet we have fans even here chomping at the bit to throw their hard earned cash at this mess, and even worse ridiculing people who see how clearly ridiculous this is and refuse to take part in this madness.
See I was always the other way where I liked watching the “kids” play and be able to cheer for the same ones on “my” team for a few years. Now with the new way of doing things that’ll likely be gone soon.
NIL is a shit show like so many other things no a days
And why are they not expected to pay for their education?
Disagree. TL offense looks clearly different than the BF offense and he did produce some good performances on that side of the ball this year. I’m sure KJ played a big part in that, but we used new personnel, formations and schemes that we didn’t before.
