Which he will make up by plenty in his second contract which is when the real money starts.
NIL’s
- Thread starter Demo
- Start date
When to dinner last night with 7 guys, 2 my brothers, but the bond was we all played ball together for decades. Sad that not one was “bullish on ball” anymore as evidenced by the genuine lack of opinions on the upcoming NCAAs, a lot of “I haven’t watched much college ball“ outside of “insert favorite team”. One of the guys, a Rutgers grad, was pretty militant about not buying into the RU recruiting class after seeing Spencer given a shot by Pikiell and then run to UConn. Didn’t blame him in the least, just had a “what’s the point” kind of attitude.
A great night but a lot of talk about the “good old days” and the effect that NIL and free agency has had in sapping the interest out of college ball for us “old timers.” Best line of the night was an observation about the change in “wait ‘til next year“ to “I’ll see if I wait ‘til next year after I see what next year looks like”.
A great night but a lot of talk about the “good old days” and the effect that NIL and free agency has had in sapping the interest out of college ball for us “old timers.” Best line of the night was an observation about the change in “wait ‘til next year“ to “I’ll see if I wait ‘til next year after I see what next year looks like”.
That’s true but as you know, there’s a lot of guys who don’t make it that far. Whitmore has shown a lot so I agree with him in general
Rocket
Well-known member
Remember where this is coming from! These athletes at these elite Ivies are espousing the socialist principles that has been instilled in their psyche for years now.
Socialist workers unite! The UNION will protect our rights! Redefine EVERYTHING!
Promote sex identity politics. Is identifying sports as "mens" or "women" sexist?
If athletes on scholarship are employees, are students on scholarship also employees because they take part in mock trials and other academic competitions?
Are the basketball players receiving payroll checks with tax deductions?
College sports will have to be REDEFINED!
Mullins Revenge
Well-known member
Make the kids employees of the school, not students. They are being paid 200-300k, thats a pro. The charade that they are students is over.
Have them sign contract 1-4 year contracts.
Lets just get to the point of where college sports is going now.
Have them sign contract 1-4 year contracts.
Lets just get to the point of where college sports is going now.
carmineabbatiello
Well-known member
This is America. We're all socialists. Don't kid yourself.
sounds pretty clearly that they are espousing capitalist principles, lets get what we can get!
either way, curious how this all resolves itself.
Rocket
Well-known member
Capitalists despise unions!
The names of 99% of athletes signing NIL deals would be seriously devalued without the IMAGE and NAME of a blue blood university associated with their IMAGE.
Players like Dickinson at Kansas are few who can command professional level deals.
Long term, colleges will wake up and disband basketball at smaller schools reducing the opportunities of kids to go to college on athletic scholarships. The larger schools and conferences will form leagues and bolt from the NCAA. Capitalism will keep those leagues alive but let's not fool ourselves, traditional college sports is dead.
NIL money will be a great help to so called mid majors. The big schools will steal each others players, so there will be far less HS players offered scholarships. Mid majors will get far better players because of the glut of players not offered and will now accept scholies at mid majors.
You are ignoring the fact that players who play well at the lower level, like Ledlum and Dingle, and yes I know they had no more eligibility at the Ivys , will be poached by the majors.
Didn't Dingle have a year left @ Penn if he stayed?
Not sure how eligibility works for Ivies but he and Ledlum both played three years at their respective schools.
totally agree on the HS players. There is only so much money and so few schools to go around and I absolutely agree with I think class of 72 that the NCAA Tourney will be ruined what I disagree with is let's say Hofstra. They will their freshman. What will suck is they lose their seniors. Basically they will be a farm system
Just concerned for those who are likely not pro level who transfer for playing time, don't get any meaningful $... then get shorted credits as switch schools and don't complete degrees in their four scholarship years.
they were each in their respective Ivies for 4 years but only played 3 years as the Ivies totally shut down bball for the covid year. Don't know if they could petition NCAA for 5th year but I am sure they would like to get on with their lives.
L J S A
Well-known member
Both can play somewhere in the world after this season. But if the difference is finishing grad school for free and a potentially better league in the world, I would petition if I were them.
Under current rules, can NIL's only be for 1 year or can they be multiple?
And assuming currently, the NIL agreement cannot specifically state a school they'd have to attend ?
And assuming currently, the NIL agreement cannot specifically state a school they'd have to attend ?
I'm not saying this to be a smartass but there's no rules. It's a pretty terrible situation for everyone involved
