Only a matter of time - NIL

[Herkey Ohio]

NIL is going to get interesting. A lot of people are putting up a lot of money and they are going to want result - ROI = Return on investment.

If Alabama doesn't win a championship in the next 3 or 4 years. They are going to have a hard time getting money from their supporters.

Florida offered 13 Million to a kid and then didn't have the money - see link below.

https://www.on3.com/college/florida...ada-from-national-letter-of-intent-4-star-qb/

 

[uihawk82]

NIL is going to take NCAA football back to the 1950's thru '70's when teams could and would have more scholarships and people would pay decent high school football players tuition and expenses to be a walkon, practice for 2 years, and hope to become a starter for good OLD State U.

Nebraska had quite a network of county fan clubs who would pull together money to pay for one or a few of their big, beefy guys to go to Nebby as walkons. Bama, Texas, A&M, Cali schools, etc would do the same thing. Transfer rules were hard back then so get them on campus and they were your players.

One bad thing this did was it kept many, many smaller schools, schools without the population nearby, without the money, and without the big name from getting some of these players to build depth on their rosters to compete. (Gee this sort of sounds like our culture of disparity).

By 1980 scholarship numbers were being reduced and you couldn't have 160 guys on your team. Not sure when but they took away the county fan clubs from paying for walkons to attend school as a legal inducement to play at good ole State U.

NIL deals are now going to let big money schools pay players who are off scholarship to come to their school

And I dont think the NCAA wants to fight this or any of this crap that unlevels the playing field.

Just ask yourself if you think without scholarship and roster reductions if Northwestern would have ever won a couple of Big 10 titles. Heck Fry might not have won 3 of them.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

NIL is going to get interesting. A lot of people are putting up a lot of money and they are going to want result - ROI = Return on investment.

Oh the irony of this statement!

Players are allowed to be paid for their NAME, IMAGE AND LIKENESS. But the folks putting money in don't give a hoot about any of those things. They are paying for the players abilities and their contributions to wins.

Can what we have today been imagined by the SCOTUS when they passed their ruling?

 

[cmicek1]

NIL is going to take NCAA football back to the 1950's thru '70's when teams could and would have more scholarships and people would pay decent high school football players tuition and expenses to be a walkon, practice for 2 years, and hope to become a starter for good OLD State U.

Nebraska had quite a network of county fan clubs who would pull together money to pay for one or a few of their big, beefy guys to go to Nebby as walkons. Bama, Texas, A&M, Cali schools, etc would do the same thing. Transfer rules were hard back then so get them on campus and they were your players.

One bad thing this did was it kept many, many smaller schools, schools without the population nearby, without the money, and without the big name from getting some of these players to build depth on their rosters to compete. (Gee this sort of sounds like our culture of disparity).

By 1980 scholarship numbers were being reduced and you couldn't have 160 guys on your team. Not sure when but they took away the county fan clubs from paying for walkons to attend school as a legal inducement to play at good ole State U.

NIL deals are now going to let big money schools pay players who are off scholarship to come to their school

And I dont think the NCAA wants to fight this or any of this crap that unlevels the playing field.

Just ask yourself if you think without scholarship and roster reductions if Northwestern would have ever won a couple of Big 10 titles. Heck Fry might not have won 3 of them.

You’re paragraph about Nebraska is utter urban legend bullshit.
You know nothing.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

You’re paragraph about Nebraska is utter urban legend bullshit.
You know nothing.

You're probably right.

But in the 70's I lived in a small town near Iowa City. One night my Dad came home from work and announced he had just given $20 to the recruit Jon Lazar fund. The local bank president was running the "campaign".

He's also a player that committed to ISU first and switched to Iowa. Coincidence?

Obviously it was common, but the money was probably not very much.

 

[uihawk82]

You’re paragraph about Nebraska is utter urban legend bullshit.
You know nothing.

And how do you know it is urban legend bullshit when I read about the opposite in sports magazines 4 decades ago.

 

[uihawk82]

You’re paragraph about Nebraska is utter urban legend bullshit.
You know nothing.

Are you a Nebby fan!!!!????

 

[JPR95]

It’s the legendary NE county scholarship program the above is referring to.

 

[Hawk and Awe]

If someone is dumb enough to pump money into NIL - they are probably dumb enough to keep doing it regardless of the result