Every Oklahoma Football player on scholarship will receive $50k in NIL money a year

[WiseOlVol]

Every Oklahoma Football player on scholarship will receive $50,000 in NIL money a year. Plans are to start enrolling players for payment the day after the Spring Game with everyone onboarded by the fall.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

It's like watching a slow motion train wreck.

 

[bpalmer28]

Some of these boosters have too much money

 

[SpookyAction]

About to become a common theme.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Will that even FIT in a McDonald's bag???

 

[Mr_Henley]

This is always where this was headed and it’s going to destroy the sport, and the young adults in it.

 

[tennrich1]

It’s certainly going to be an interesting journey. I wonder if these guys will be considered self employed or employees of the contributing business/individual/NIL committee or whatever they’ll be called. IRS could make life miserable for these guys if they’re not on top of all the “in’s and out’s!

 

[jpope9]

Wasn’t their AD just bitching about the NIL? Lol

 

[MAD]

No closing Pandora’s box now.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

How much you want to bet they were already getting this?

 

[JarFly]

The Jeanie is officially out of the bottle.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Really not that much.. 50000 times 78 is 4 million.. if sprye is planning on doing up to 28 mil a year..
Every team should do this and save the big bucks for the feature players.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

I did the math and got the following results:

corr(youth, hormones) = inexperience + stupidity
std(massive induction of cash) = reckless abandon
E(coed environment and IRS coming to call) = wrecked players, wrecked careers, and wrecked lives

 

[Boston Vol]

Good for them. And it’s not just football, basketball and softball as well.

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

Well, there’s no danger of anybody from Bammer transferring there.
They get $50k just for shoes…

 

[ArmchairQB]

Really not that much.. 50000 times 78 is 4 million.. if sprye is planning on doing up to 28 mil a year..
Every team should do this and save the big bucks for the feature players.

This. Giving the entire team $50k means the entire team, together, makes what coach makes in a year. If you’re going to start having key players make 6-7 figures, this’ll go a fair way toward keeping the locker room from getting toxic. Even if it’s “just” 50k it’s still a fair bit more than most have ever made above the table at this point in their lives.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

This. Giving the entire team $50k means the entire team, together, makes what coach makes in a year. If you’re going to start having key players make 6-7 figures, this’ll go a fair way toward keeping the locker room from getting toxic. Even if it’s “just” 50k it’s still a fair bit more than most have ever made above the table at this point in their lives.

Yup. The nil was created to give the student athlete an opportunity to make some money playing college ball.. Theirs plenty of pie for the whole team to get a piece. 50k for all the players is totaly doable and fair,
Why should teams just pay 3-5 players while the rest gets nothing and is broke college kids??
Oklahoma made a smart move here and I think we should follow.

 

[Volnanza]

Every Oklahoma Football player on scholarship will receive $50,000 in NIL money a year. Plans are to start enrolling players for payment the day after the Spring Game with everyone onboarded by the fall.

Sometimes it just doesn't seem real.

Once upon a time long ago, gambling was seen as the devil for sport teams and athletics . Pete Rose was banned for life from the HOF for betting on games. Now the gambling orgs are running the show and even advertising inside stadiums while games are going on. It's even worse now that players are getting paid big money to go to one school or the other. How long before these orgs. start buying the players and sending them places that will increase their gambling profits? I think this will end very, very badly. This is Pandora's Box and it has been opened. Maybe we should open it again to see it hope still resides there.

 

[MontyPython]

Next stop: High School.

 

[Zues1]

Will that even FIT in a McDonald's bag???

Bojangles box

 

[Carl Pickens]

Here comes the arrests for hangin’ out big pimp in’ and what not

 

[tnutater]

How much you want to bet they were already getting this?

No mention of the signing bonus.
That would be against the NCAA rules.
How much you wanna bet this 50k is just a maintenance fee given to all so the 2nd string kicker does not get pissed at the 2m dollar QB.
OK boosters know what top QBs cost. 50k would get one laughed at.
NIL is a last ditch effort to avoid players being called employees.
Nothing more. To think all 85 players have a recognition worth 50k a year is as silly as those that think paying players has not been going on for decades.
The end of NIL will occur when a school and their non profit money handler is challenged in court. There is no disconnect, coaches HAVE to choose who they want and how much their non profit pays to buy the player. Choosing the player and deciding the pay by a school employee (HC) could be thought of as an employer/employee relationship.
The current NIL is not sustainable. It is obvious that the NCAA intends to not enforce their rules, again. Using NIL deals to recruit players is supposed to be against the rules. LOL, sure.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

Eric Gray ... Why am I getting a pay cut ???

 

[0nelilreb]

We should enjoy the ride since we are sitting in a good seat . Maybe offer Elon Musk an honorary degree and get some of that fattest cat money rolling in .

 

[Voltopia]

Remember all those people saying that warnings about NIL were overblown and that most of it would be local deals that would put extra pocket money in some players’ pockets? Yeah. About that.

Anyway, welcome to the new reality. The price floor for a talented college football player is now 50k a year. And you can bet it’s gonna go up - at least until the whole thing implodes. Which at this rate it will.