NIL will kill the NFL

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The Original Fade said:
I’m not underestimating how much people love money, but you are definitely overestimating how much these athletes love football.
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You're underestimating how much they love money if you think they're going to stop cold turkey at 22 making $10 million a year. They'll still go to the NFL....to keep making millions.
 
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jeff1vol said:
The ONLY solution to this WHOLE problem is for the NFL to create a farm system and draft out of HS just like baseball. You dont want to go to class.... go to the NFDL. Get the PROS OUT of college athletics!!
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I don’t know if directing all the good talent out of college football would be a great thing for the product. JMO
 
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BearCat204 said:
I don’t know if directing all the good talent out of college football would be a great thing for the product. JMO
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Not all of it would go to an NFL farm system. Look at baseball, plenty of high draft picks out of HS are electing to play college ball instead.
 
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I thought it was going to kill college football?

Seriously, why is everyone worried about the business model of rich billionaires that make money off the tax payer?

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VolsSportsFan said:
You're underestimating how much they love money if you think they're going to stop cold turkey at 22 making $10 million a year. They'll still go to the NFL....to keep making millions.
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Playing college football is an absolute grind, and many are burnt out by the time they are seniors but go on to the NFL because of the money. But if that money were available in college, why keep up the grind and risk permanent injury? You already have enough to live comfortably and still be able to walk in your 50s
 
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The Original Fade said:
Playing college football is an absolute grind, and many are burnt out by the time they are seniors but go on to the NFL because of the money. But if that money were available in college, why keep up the grind and risk permanent injury? You already have enough to live comfortably and still be able to walk in your 50s
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The vast majority will not have any money. There will be no "live comfortably".

You aren't paying attention.
 
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BP4Prez said:
I think these ridiculous 7 figure deals will die down in the future when these people realize there is no return on investment.
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This. You can either pay it from a company and see no real return. Or pay it from your own money, which highly successful people generally don’t do.
 
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McDad said:
The vast majority will not have any money. There will be no "live comfortably".

You aren't paying attention.
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I never said the vast majority will. The top talent could though, and if they opt out of the NFL then the league talent level will be diluted
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I’m not so sure about that. What makes you say that?
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It would open up the talent pool for the NFL, lots of talented players out there that can't get into school or through JC. On the college side it would get the kids out of the college game that have no business being in college or just don't want to go to college. Opening up spaces for more kids.
 
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Players who have the talent to make it to the NFL will (generally) continue to play the game as long as they can. Making more $$$ in college will not change that one iota.

First, because fame can be addictive. But leave that aside, and we'll focus on $$$.

We know by long experience watching NFL (and NBA) players live out their lives that making millions of dollars a year doesn't satiate a desire for more money. Witness the fact that many pro footballers earning 7-figure salaries for multiple years are broke and working for some real estate agency a few years after they leave the league. Sure, they made a lot. But the lavish lifestyle they got used to had them spending it just as fast as they made it.

Starting this make-a-lot, spend-a-lot llifestyle four years earlier (for the few who get the opportunity) isn't going to change the cycle for the better. May even make it worse, since the lads will begin the transition when they're even less mature.

The NFL has nothing to worry about here.


p.s. Many of the arguments in this thread about multi-millionaire business founders and/or CEOs shelling out NIL $$$ neglect to differentiate between corporate capital and personal wealth. A Jeff Bezos, Phil Knight, or Elon Musk type who wanted to (some of these guys care not a whit about college football, others are just as obsessed with it as you and me) can spend tons of $$$ on NIL without ever touching corporate finances. They have a lot of freedom when using their own money.
 
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BP4Prez said:
I think these ridiculous 7 figure deals will die down in the future when these people realize there is no return on investment. These college players have little to no marketability outside of their own fan base.
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The ROI is what happens on the field. These NIL deals have zero to do with improving the individual business
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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Let’s hope the NFL goes away! Oh happy day! Quit watching that political expression group three years ago!
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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We love football and a certain state school. The average CEO cares about neither.
 
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