NCAA Football Championship Can Now Be Bought by the Highest Bidder

[MontyPython]

GROUNDRULES:

* 85 max scholarships per team
*125 max players on the team
* NO LIMITS on NIL deals whatsoever
* No "salary caps" like the NFL
* NCAA afraid to regulate NIL

RESULT:

Unfettered ability to attract recruits.

Teams can have 85 players on scholly and another 40 with killer NIL deals.

Similarly, teams could, theoretically, have 125 players all earning $10M+ NIL deals. Why ever go pro?!?

NET RESULT:

Whichever football team fanbase coughs up the most donations for NIL (e.g. Tennessee via Spyre Sports Group, etc.) will pay the highest "salaries" to players and, likely, attract the most talented players and, likely, therefore win the NCAA Natty.

PARITY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED

Apply this to ANY NCCA sport. Rinse. Repeat.

... until states, colleges and/or conferences step in with new regulation/legislation.

 

[VOLfrombama]

Everyone at College Station disagrees. aTm spent whatever, rumored to be 30 mil, and commenced to crapping the bed. They have a $95mil coach, $30mil NIL collective, and not a dang thing to show for it.

Getting into the playoffs requires A LOT of things going your way. It also requires your team, coaches, fans, collectives, etc, all pulling in the same direction, all while getting some lucky breaks along the way.

I do agree there needs to be more rules about how much can be paid. I would also rather see the whole team get something than 1 guy get 8 mil or whatever. I think it will happen eventually.

 

[McDad]

 

[happy-go_vol]

View attachment 521586GROUNDRULES:

* 85 max scholarships per team
*125 max players on the team
* NO LIMITS on NIL deals whatsoever
* No "salary caps" like the NFL
* NCAA afraid to regulate NIL

RESULT:

Unfettered ability to attract recruits.

Teams can have 85 players on scholly and another 40 with killer NIL deals.

Similarly, teams could, theoretically, have 125 players all earning $10M+ NIL deals. Why ever go pro?!?

NET RESULT:

Whichever football team fanbase coughs up the most donations for NIL (e.g. Tennessee via Spyre Sports Group, etc.) will pay the highest "salaries" to players and, likely, attract the most talented players and, likely, therefore win the NCAA Natty.

PARITY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED

Apply this to ANY NCCA sport. Rinse. Repeat.

... until states, colleges and/or conferences step in with new regulation/legislation.

Welcome to premier soccer.

 

[Woke]

Everyone at College Station disagrees. aTm spent whatever, rumored to be 30 mil, and commenced to crapping the bed. They have a $95mil coach, $30mil NIL collective, and not a dang thing to show for it.

Getting into the playoffs requires A LOT of things going your way. It also requires your team, coaches, fans, collectives, etc, all pulling in the same direction, all while getting some lucky breaks along the way.

I do agree there needs to be more rules about how much can be paid. I would also rather see the whole team get something than 1 guy get 8 mil or whatever. I think it will happen eventually.

Agreed. College ain’t the NFL.

Can we stop with the doomsday NIL exaggerations already?

I’ve been a Vol football fanatic for way over 50 years and if I had a dollar for every doomsday prediction that was going to destroy P5 college football as we know it from scholarship limits to TV and everything in between then I could afford to drive to Knoxville on Monday and buy one of those $100 gameday footballs LOL

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Wait until Title 9 sniffs this out!

 

[Hulavol]

This is exactly the same way it has been operating forever. Only thing that has changed is it’s now legal and out in open.
Just as coaches salaries have gone up (Liberty paying a coach 5M a year !!) players salaries have gone up accordingly. QB used to cost a car and 200k..now it’s a million. Otherwise business as usual.

 

[kyvol98]

WHOO HOO, Texas A&M 2023 National Champions!

 

[DaddyChad]

What a unique and original discussion.

 

[volmandu]

These will all settle out in time. Soon local companies will realize that outside of few positions the 'big' NIL deals aren't really worth anything for them. National companies are already very selective on star players with NIL. Boosters can only give so much every year to pay 85 or 125 players. Soon it will be few players on each team get big money and rest are sharing 100k-25k each depending on their position. Backups and third stringers may not get anything.
Just like coaches extension, players each year will jump into portal to test their NIL worth. Starters to get bigger deals, backups to get some deal with playtime etc. Only few schools can afford decent NIL money so a lot of smaller schools will be JUCO type development place for 20-25 major colleges.

 

[TatudVol]

My only gripe with the NIL is that it is not what was advertised. It was said to be for athletes that had their name, image, or likeness used by companies. The athlete could get paid from that. It was not sold as athletes getting contracts from companies to be their spokesperson. Unless I am missing something or it changed before it was put into practice and I missed it.

 

[Sudden Impact]

Who is going to regulate salary caps? States - No, NCAA - No, Supreme Court - No, Conferences - No.

No one in charge nor any restrictions applied.

Cat is out of the bag and running wild.

 

[CNCVol88]

Wait until Title 9 sniffs this out!

Title 9 has no control over what private citizens decide between each other. NIL isn't touched by the school.

 

[Voldawg1970]

Wasn't this determined when NIL came about? Pockets are going to have to get deep.!!!

 

[Go aeiou]

Welcome to premier soccer.

By far the best in the world.

 

[USCGVOL]

You could use that same logic and say that national championships were already being bought. Look at Bama, USC, Texas, and Auburn. You Dont think Reggie Bush, Cam Newton, and Vince young were paid more at their schools than all the others? its always been a bidding war and always will be. You are crazy if you think otherwise. Nothing new here and nothing to see. Move along.

 

[JRobbins]

You could pay everyone on the team an extraordinary amount for a year or two. There is a ton of money in college football but not limitless money.
This will all settle down over the next couple of years as best practices are established. Paying players is a good thing. Amateur rules only existed to exclude poorer people. Schools and the NCAA learned to use those rules to exploit young people. While the pendulum may swing a little too far the other way temporarily, the long term correction is in the best interest of everyone.

 

[woodpusher]

Title 9 has no control over what private citizens decide between each other. NIL isn't touched by the school.

So why was Kellie Harper promoting it last night, wink-wink?

 

[Golfprovol]

Justify paying a second team OL or the second team punter multiple millions in NIL......you can't. So 125 players making 10+ mil is not even close to realistic.

 

[Dadof2Vols]

View attachment 521586GROUNDRULES:

* 85 max scholarships per team
*125 max players on the team
* NO LIMITS on NIL deals whatsoever
* No "salary caps" like the NFL
* NCAA afraid to regulate NIL

RESULT:

Unfettered ability to attract recruits.

Teams can have 85 players on scholly and another 40 with killer NIL deals.

Similarly, teams could, theoretically, have 125 players all earning $10M+ NIL deals. Why ever go pro?!?

NET RESULT:

Whichever football team fanbase coughs up the most donations for NIL (e.g. Tennessee via Spyre Sports Group, etc.) will pay the highest "salaries" to players and, likely, attract the most talented players and, likely, therefore win the NCAA Natty.

PARITY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED

Apply this to ANY NCCA sport. Rinse. Repeat.

... until states, colleges and/or conferences step in with new regulation/legislation.

Agree 100%.

This is exactly why the Big Spending NY Yankess have won the last 10 MLB Championships.

NIL will help even the field. At end of day though it will all come down to how the money and talent is accumulated and managed. You will have to have a good team to evaluate, recruit, teach and coach talent. Without that your name is Jimbo.

 

[kcvols1]

Welcome to premier soccer.

FINALLY!

Can we relegate Vandy and promote Tulane?

 

[kcvols1]

My only gripe with the NIL is that it is not what was advertised. It was said to be for athletes that had their name, image, or likeness used by companies. The athlete could get paid from that. It was not sold as athletes getting contracts from companies to be their spokesperson. Unless I am missing something or it changed before it was put into practice and I missed it.

What is being a spokesperson if not providing rights to your NIL?

 

[rocky top buzz]

One thing I don't understand. The NCAA basically says they cannot regulate NIL, the supreme court says you cannot inhibit a players access to the free market. But...

... using that same logic, in the NFL what stops someone like Jerry Jones from giving his top QB a minimum contract but then donating $100mil to Gentle Giants Horse Rescue who just happens to have offered to pay the cowboys top QB $99mil to be a brand ambassador. Seems like if the NFL stepped in the way they would be subject to the same issue of inhibiting access to the free market, right?

Of course if Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder could do that they would. And they would probably have the same results as TAMU lol. But with UT having the Haslam family and them owning an NFL franchise seems like NIL should benefit Tennessee as much as it would any team.

 

[Vol737]

My only gripe with the NIL is that it is not what was advertised. It was said to be for athletes that had their name, image, or likeness used by companies. The athlete could get paid from that. It was not sold as athletes getting contracts from companies to be their spokesperson. Unless I am missing something or it changed before it was put into practice and I missed it.

My sentiment as well. This thing spun out of control quickly.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

View attachment 521586GROUNDRULES:

* 85 max scholarships per team
*125 max players on the team
* NO LIMITS on NIL deals whatsoever
* No "salary caps" like the NFL
* NCAA afraid to regulate NIL

RESULT:

Unfettered ability to attract recruits.

Teams can have 85 players on scholly and another 40 with killer NIL deals.

Similarly, teams could, theoretically, have 125 players all earning $10M+ NIL deals. Why ever go pro?!?

NET RESULT:

Whichever football team fanbase coughs up the most donations for NIL (e.g. Tennessee via Spyre Sports Group, etc.) will pay the highest "salaries" to players and, likely, attract the most talented players and, likely, therefore win the NCAA Natty.

PARITY HAS BEEN ELIMINATED

Apply this to ANY NCCA sport. Rinse. Repeat.

... until states, colleges and/or conferences step in with new regulation/legislation.

That’s good in theory but terribly bad in reality. If that was the case the Yankees would have won a ton more World Series. In fact 1 year the devil rays won it with the lowest payroll in baseball. Highest dollar does not automatically make you a winner. There are many examples to prove you wrong but I don’t have the time. All power 5 schools have big money donors. Actually the old under the table method guaranteed the same teams more. Because a few could wheel and deal and never have to worry about getting caught. Now all power 5 schools have the ability to do what a few have been getting away with for years. GBO