Recruiting in today’s world is just a big game. Most of the big time athletes are not looking at a school for the education. They want to major in making money. They want the biggest exposure for their brand and the quickest way to the league. If you are not playing the sleazy game, you are let in the dust. The scope of big time college athletics has dropped to a new shameful low. It is hard to have integrity and compete with those who don’t. Something has to be done to bring it back to reality. I fear there is too much money involved for that to ever happen. Greed usually wins out in the end.
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Yeah....it seems like often times issues like no pay for players, over corrects and swings way to far one way or the other. This current NIL is just ridiculous....the question for me is, can we ever just get some balance? A workable and reasonably solution?
The real issue is that players and schools are using NIL to cover up pay for play. The latter means you are a professional athlete and this cannot compete at the college level.
If the NCAA really wants to fix the problem, the real solution would be to take NIL out of boosters' and schools' hands. Require any NIL to not be contingent on a kid going to a particular school. Any NIL contract would be connected only to the kid, not a school. The best players in each sport could earn NIL money AND decide where they really want to go based on the education received, the team, and the coaching staff. I
Anything less than this is just a coverup.
If the NCAA really wants to fix the problem, the real solution would be to take NIL out of boosters' and schools' hands. Require any NIL to not be contingent on a kid going to a particular school. Any NIL contract would be connected only to the kid, not a school. The best players in each sport could earn NIL money AND decide where they really want to go based on the education received, the team, and the coaching staff. I
Anything less than this is just a coverup.
When is the last time that anybody has seen or heard the term “student-athlete” used? Been years probably for me
in todays world? Its been a game for decades. But only one side was getting paid (legally) to play the game.
I agree. Although it's probably never been more than 20% of the athletes that are looking for something specific - education wise. If you are going to major in business or PE or Communications, and you're not a top student, how much does the school really matter?
But now for a lot of these kids, money is the ONLY factor.
College sports is supposed to be a level playing field, which distinguished it from the pros. Today, many of the pro sports have done things to level the playing field because it's better for the sport. Not college football and basketball.
College sports is ......
The NCAA is waiting for the 'final crunch' - and Mark Emmert resigned a few weeks ago because he did not want to be around for it. They are done. Everything is now legal. How bad is it? The commissioners of the PAC and SEC traveled to Washington DC two weeks ago to appeal to legislators to get involved because this whole thing (college FB and BB) is about to be torn apart. Talking heads at ESPN are talking about the final step coming which will be the establishment of a 32 team, football super conference, which will be a professional, minor league.
No, not all professional sports have a salary cap. Most actually do not have a salary cap.
In the US, the most popular sports (sans MLB) have implemented a quasi socialist system between teams (salary cap), but it’s not very common in the rest of the world.
Who cares about the rest of the world. And all I said is the sport that is most popular by a significant margin in the US has a cap
You said successful leagues have salary caps. I said that’s simply not true. Of the top ten richest sports leagues, only three have salary caps. You may not care, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
Will they be untethered from universities? Will the universities allow a pro team to wear their logos? Who will pay the salaries of these pro coaches? Can we finally fire Barta?
The ND athletic director - Swarbrick - was interviewed by SI on these very questions. He indicated that the new model will be athletic departments that are completely separate from the universities but will continue to use the school name and logo. He maintains that ND will maintain the traditional model of student-athlete (are there really any of those left?) and the athletic department as part of the university. He also stated that the legislators in DC that he has spoken with do not want to get involved. In the end, it is not the conference commissioners and athletic directors, and ESPN idiots that make the call (thank god, too many of them are like boys in a locker room) it will be the presidents and chancellors of the universities, and they will likely have a completely different view of this discussed comedy.
Yes, I can. I'm just waiting for him to make that first mistake and then, boom!, he's gone!
where did I use plural. I said the most successful ONE. ONE is not plural last I checked
He was replying to this post, not yours:
You jumped in later. Get with the program!
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I think many schools will eventually de-emphasize athletics. If I want to watch pro sports, I will watch pro sports.
I do not disagree (unless something is done asap) with the above and collegiate athletics will no longer be a cash cow. IMO the best sports available are/used to be college sports.
I was initially replying to Iowalawhawk who said successful sportS have a salary caps.
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Why would a booster give money to an individual player unless he already knew exactly what school that would steer him to?
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