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High school freshman QB signs NIL deal. (Article)
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Can someone tell me why some of the talking heads of football such as FBaum and several others are saying this "new era" of college athletics is "good"? I would love to hear Rece Davis' and Kirk Herbstreit's real opinions on all of this.
It will stop itself and sooner rather than later. These kids and the current pros better soke it all up right now because I truly believe a sports crash is coming. The model is just unsustainable, from NIL all the way up to the highest paid pros. The money is drying up, but no one wants to admit it right now. I think within the next decade there will be a major payroll shortage for all pro sports.
Just look at what is happening with Bally Sports (Diamond Sports Group) and ESPN keeps laying people off. Eyeballs continue to disappear as folks keep dropping cable. Providers are pushing back more than ever on cable network fee increases when contracts are up. Soon there will not be enough eyes watching the TV screen to justify the money being spent on ads, which means the networks will not be able to afford the huge contracts they sign with leagues. When those huge contracts start drying up, so will the teams payrolls and it will all come crashing down.
I've never been good at predicting the future so maybe I will be wrong. MLS and Apple are the only pro sport so far to successfully join the streaming era in a meaningful way. It's the model other leagues should be striving for, but they are blind. I did a free trial of Apple's MLS Season pass last year and it was a great product. Being able to watch multiple games at once, chose the home or away radio announcers or no announcers with stadium audio. Plus, no blackouts! I'm not even an MLS fan and I almost subscribed because I found the product enjoyable to use. I would gladly pay for his kind of product for MLB, and they are so close with similar features with MLB.tv but the blackouts ruin the product.
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Guys like Finebaum love chaos...it's basically what they live for.
Cause they are paid to say it is good. You really think ESPN wants them to go on air and talk about how the sport is dead and we should all stop watching. ESPN is already losing enough viewers, don't need the staff to encourage more to abandon ship.
No one has to say stop watching it, but if they want controversy (because controversy draws eyeballs to the tv). Then going against the grain would be a recipe for great controversy. But I've yet to hear one talking head say this may not be good for college sports and I find that very odd.
Saban is the only one that has been publicly against it. Now that he’s working for ESPN, I’m curious to see if his public position changes.
there have been a couple of radio talking heads that have said this will eventually fall apart unless some regulations happen, but for the most part it has been people just saying everything is fine and just go with it.
I knew all of this would happen the second some folks compared the old way to slavery.
I knew all of this would happen the second some folks compared the old way to slavery.
This is just mind-boggling to me, probably since I've never really been interested in trading cards. I've even got a box of them in my office that were from my dad and older brother, but I don't think they are worth anything as they are all out of the package and not perfectly preserved. I consider it a big-time gamble by Leaf to sign a kid who has done absolutely nothing to a deal like this. Does anybody know how much the deal is worth?
If he signs with GA, he doesn't need a license.
I posted this on the recruiting board. He is a player we "were" recruiting hard but his high school NIL bag will look like play money compared to what his bag will be at whatever college he chooses. As another poster said, these first few classes should get what they can now because it is unsustainable and there will be rules against this excess in the next few years.
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USC 5-star QB commit Julian Lewis purchases car for father through NIL earnings
Julian Lewis is an NIL pioneer at the high school level, and the five-star quarterback is using the success to give back to his family.
I'm sure, legally, you can still affix your "mark".I wonder how they sign a physical contract...?
these are the same folks who will be upset that they're under a lot of pressure to perform or that people follow them around everywhere and "I deserve some privacy" or when they screw up royally by getting a DUI at 17 or get into a fight that gets them expelled, or they are dirtbag guys that assault their girlfriend or abandon her when she's pregnant that "everybody makes mistakes and people shouldn't judge."
And 15-yo 5* never started a HS game dude: Good luck being as good as your "autographed trading card" makes you look on the day it is photoshop'd. Time to let these guys go be pros and reconstruct college teams as being actual students first. Bama won nearly 15% of the NC's given in the 132 years of playing college football pre-NIL. Let all these guys "go do their thing" in whatever pro league wants them and let's turn student body left back into representing the actual student body.
/old man rant
And 15-yo 5* never started a HS game dude: Good luck being as good as your "autographed trading card" makes you look on the day it is photoshop'd. Time to let these guys go be pros and reconstruct college teams as being actual students first. Bama won nearly 15% of the NC's given in the 132 years of playing college football pre-NIL. Let all these guys "go do their thing" in whatever pro league wants them and let's turn student body left back into representing the actual student body.
/old man rant
Exactly what I was thinking. It would be refreshing to hear some "plain talk" from these talking heads. I think the lack of it has hurt ESPN's brand.
So what happens when the schools get together and agree they aren’t going to pay the absurd amounts some kids want,, and follow through on it together? Will they be sued on anti-trust grounds?
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