Tennessee preparing to add 10% 'talent fee' to ticket prices to raise money to give its players
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I understand, but at some point its time as fans to say, F NO. Look at what happened with T A&M. That shows that throwing out all the $$$ doesn't mean your going to win more. I feel the same way about this as the deal with the Chiefs trying to hold up the Jackson county tax payers to replace or rebuild Arrowhead. Sorry, but HELL NO! If they can afford to pay just three players on their 53 man roster 110 MILLION $ a year, then they have the financial ability to pay to keep their house in order, and not go to taxpayers, many of whom can't even afford the cost of "the game experience". This is going right down the same road. Take in 80-90 million $ a year in just TV revenue, and then ask the fans to pay for the courts 22% of revenue to the players. Absolute nonsense. If it comes to that, I'll be fine watching Iowa play teams outside the top 12-15 teams that want to go down that rabbit hole, knowing full well that most of them aren't going to win shit either.
You'd think, but somehow people just keep on paying. Like with all the prices going to the moon the last few years. You'd think there would be a ceiling, but people keep paying.
I'd pay 10% for talent like ?Iamaleavaela or whatever his name is.From the story:
Up to $22M in revenue sharing is expected to come next year (it still has to be approved by a federal judge) and this is one way Tennessee fans will help pay for it.
Tennessee hopes to recoup about $10M through the surcharge, which will come in addition to a football ticket price increase averaging 4.5 percent across all seats.
So, a $100 ticket last year would cost $115 this year.
Tennessee to add 10 percent 'talent fee' to ticket prices to raise money to give to players
Tennessee plans to add a 10 percent "talent fee" to ticket prices that would be used to pay players starting in 2025.www.on3.com
But don't the players still go to school? Don't they still have to meet academic requirements to remain eligible, at least in the Big Ten? If so, they are definitely still "student athletes." It's just that with the vast amounts of money college football is generating, the athletes must receive a fair share of it, since they're the ones creating it.
I don't know that the academic side of things has changed one bit. Anyone have any info in that regard?
Will see who the first athletes are the IRS goes after. Some people are gonna F up.
The NIL thing isn't the problem. The problem, as others have noted in this thread and on and off since this all happened, is the lack of control, the lack of enforceable rules so that every team is on a level playing field. That's where the NCAA failed most miserably. Had the pay for play system been introduced years ago and done so with fair guidelines, all would be fine today. Instead, it's a mess. But don't blame the college players. They are the ones generating all this money. Obviously they should be getting their fair share.
Need salary caps and more parity. We will get there.
In the NFL there is no cap on deals that Mahomes can do on his own, right?
In the NFL there is no cap on deals that Mahomes can do on his own, right?
I don’t see a cap happening. Who is negotiating for the athletes?
I think any artificial limits imposed lose in the courts but I guess we might find out.
I don’t see how the ncaa can say how much an athlete can earn doing commercials or endorsements. No league does that.
How do? What can possibly go wrong with giving an 18 yr old kid a few (hundred) thousand dollars coming out of high school? You think these kids are self-centered or immature or something?
I was thinking more like 1/2 TV revenue goes to reduce tuition for all students.
Thats never going to happen, nor should it honestly. Its one thing to say that the players who put in all the work should get a piece of the pie they helped create, but jonny and joany going to business class have no skin in this, and I have a grand daughter going to college next year. Now I do think all students should get free passes to all events as part of their room and board....
IIRC, the NCAA has lost every court decision so far when they tried to put guard rails on NIL.
And don't forget this, when it comes to Tennessee: The Athletic reported that Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava signed an $8 million NIL deal.
the "student" athletes don't won't to be employees....I wonder why! LOL
yep.
Tennessee (3-0) is #6 in the country and likely on their way to the 12 team CFP.
He's getting $2M a year in just NIL, IIRC.... and he would get a cut of the $22M in revenue sharing (if the judge allows it)....
Cade got what from NIL/SWARM? A couple hundred grand per year?
Not sure how Iowa is gonna keep up....
And people want to protect the player's widdle feewings by not booing at the coaches.
**** it. If the universities are now going to start charging fans extra to pay you to play the game they are watching, you better perform in a way that you don't get booed - if booing assaults your fragile sensitivities.
Welcome to the continuing shitshow that the NCAA has turned into. College sports are truly now just the minor league equivalent of their professional sport counterpart.
It’s never enough money. Schools would say they need marble floored hallways to compete if the revenue was high enough.
Will be a union. That is as clear as can be. It is coming.
This will be initiated by attorneys organizing players.
It might be best for schools to jettison sports and educate. I can watch the NFL and NBA.
If the NCAA had made & enforced a regulatory process to all this when it all started, it might not be so 'off the rails' out of control now.
I would hate to see CFB & CBB disappear, but its getting stupidly ridiculous. And all this crap we've already seen is still only near the tip of the iceberg, I fear. The continuing journey is a long, loooong way down the rabbit hole.
Who remembers when seat premiums took effect? Remember that uproar? Yet stadium is full.
So 10%? Say $40 or $50 a seat for season? Yeah, I would do that.
So 10%? Say $40 or $50 a seat for season? Yeah, I would do that.
Honestly, I don’t see how, either. The current system is skewed heavily to about 15-20 teams… and UIowa isn’t one of them. Nor should it be.
We need the Big Ten and SEC to become the NFL lite model and have caps and a little more parity and acceptance by all that is better for all than the continued arms race alone.
One additional thing that absolutely should happen is players should have unlimited years to play. That would help parity also. If a kid is a great college player but not really an NFL type he can stay as long as someone wants to pay him to play in college.
What will that money do? Plowed back into sports in a never-ending cycle. The real losers are the non-revenue athletes and the students that need the athletic scholarship to get an education.
Maybe just have an NFL G League without any affiliation with schools. Students study, athletes play ball.
Not sure the G league thing commands the money. Schools have built in fans (students) that strongly identify with that school and related teams. Decades of history and ties. Now you throw that out the window. And a G League type deal will command that kind of money??? No way! I give you MLB triple A ball as example 1. How many of their games are on national TV and command BILLIONS?
Maybe the NFL could kick in some money as they benefit greatly from players going through training in college. I am sure they would say get lost to that idea.
Look at any NFL team and their PSLs and season ticket prices are way way above ticket prices in college. Tickets generally in demand unless the team sucks.
Talent is nothing without good coaching, are we sure that Tennessee didn't out-scheme/coach us while leveraging their superior talent?
Seems like the majority on here (prior to the start of the season) felt that our elite defense was primarily due to PP and him out-scheming our competition, and not because we had superior talent on that side of the ball.
Same goes for the offense, while our talent is far from elite, it is also not being coached up like it used to be and the schemes are predictable and ineffective to say the least.
I for one don't care if they want to charge an additional $15-$20 per ticket and treat the athletes like semi-pros instead of students. It's what it is now. My joy for the game is beginning to wane, so 5 years from now I doubt I'll be invested much on whether Iowa is a "solid/competitive" program like they are now, or a bottom feeder program. One thing is for certain, it won't be a dominant program consistently making the playoffs, let alone fighting for championships.
