For you pantywads worrying about NIL

[Majors]

This is asinine! The guy is a walking injury and how in the world can anyone expect, even an elite athlete, to be automatically in shape days after ANY respiratory virus. Get real! And Barnes throwing him under the bus again is uncalled for, especially after Fulk got a broken face and his coach did absolutely nothing about it! Barnes should be getting on JJJ, not Fulk! Barnes is on the clock now with is 6m salary! He needs to help his basketball team’s offense or step aside!!!! His gross failure of roster management and recruiting past three years and his entire tenure on post players is unacceptable!
Now on NIL, I can only hope the football staff (admin and coaches) is doing everything they possibly can despite their restrictions because we need defensive players as much as any time in our history ASAP!

How’s it asinine? I agree on JJJ, but Fulk in keeping with the NIL topic isn’t getting a return on investment. Production has to equal endorsements and right now much like Clemsons QB Fulkerson is headed backwards. It’s business not personal now.

 

[AurantiacoFan]

I’m gonna say this one time:
Get the car key out of your ear and pay attention.
NIL is GOOD for football. It is not ruining it, putting UT at any kind of disadvantage or anything else.

All NIL (and functioning exactly as it should)- is doing is exactly what it is intended to do: making the paying of players legal and in the open.

This is important (beneficial) for many reasons:
1- It allows the NCAA to function without having to waste millions of dollars trying to investigate and prosecute cases where every school and sport in the nation breaks the rules.
2- It makes the paying of players legal so that the kid actually gets what he is promised, the payer can run the money through payroll, and neither party is breaking any laws. This is very important for those handing out the cash and for those taking it.

3- The coaches and institutions no longer have to deal with the seediness and hypocrisy of having “plausible deniability.” Not to mention the time it takes to teach kids how to hide money and not flaunt etc. etc. This is grimey and horrible.

4- The schools can truly know what the top offer for a kid is - unlike before when the kids agent (dad, uncle, HS coach, etc) handled the bidding.

5- These kids aren’t getting anymore money than before. It’s just legal now. NOTHING else has changed. Let me repeat that one more time:
NOTHING else has changed. We will still outbid Georgia for Jamal Lewis. We will still outbid Bama for Tee Martin. We will still outbid FSU and UF for Travis Henry. Our ladies basketball team will still outbid UConn. Our ladies golf team will still outbid Georgia - ( hell yes - even this happens - Ex UGA ladies head golf coach gave me some great stories about this).

In Sum - nothing has changed and this is better for all parties involved. Each team can have 85 players on payroll. Same as in 1995.
So can we drop this please?
Thank you.

Perhaps most telling is that this post has 9 likes. That gave me a chuckle.

 

[beachvol23]

How’s it asinine? I agree on JJJ, but Fulk in keeping with the NIL topic isn’t getting a return on investment. Production has to equal endorsements and right now much like Clemsons QB Fulkerson is headed backwards. It’s business not personal now.

He’s had Covid TWICE, last time within the past 7-14 days! Jeez

 

[Majors]

He’s had Covid TWICE, last time within the past 7-14 days! Jeez

Great. Moving forward if things dont change will that still be used as an excuse? Chandler is coming off it too and had a nice night. No two cases are the same but can’t always use it in a negative.

 

[TNnative]

Until they're out of School working to pay mortgage, property insurance groceries to live on, electricity, cell phone bills etc, they are kids to me. They're closer age wise and mentality wise to kids than they are adults. In my opinion.

If they're not to you that's okay with me, I mean it's really not worth getting upset over.

Keep telling yourself that Behr. Just turn them into brats who underachieve. Personally, and I don't mean this as an insult, just as a matter of fact. I think you all are morons. This is why so many act like twerps into their thirties. And yall are just too damned ignorant to see you are the root cause of it.

 

[Behr]

Keep telling yourself that Behr. Just turn them into brats who underachieve. Personally, and I don't mean this as an insult, just as a matter of fact. I think you all are morons. This is why so many act like twerps into their thirties. And yall are just too damned ignorant to see you are the root cause of it.

That's the dumbest thing I've read today. I do regret being nice in my first post now. Lol.

 

[TNnative]

That's the dumbest thing I've read today. I do regret being nice in my first post now. Lol.

WTFE Behr. WTFE. The OP was right about pantywads.

 

[FLVOL_79]

Until they're out of School working to pay mortgage, property insurance groceries to live on, electricity, cell phone bills etc, they are kids to me. They're closer age wise and mentality wise to kids than they are adults. In my opinion.

If they're not to you that's okay with me, I mean it's really not worth getting upset over.

I have found that as I get older most adults never really seem to actually act like how I thought adults were supposed to act..

 

[FLVOL_79]

Keep telling yourself that Behr. Just turn them into brats who underachieve. Personally, and I don't mean this as an insult, just as a matter of fact. I think you all are morons. This is why so many act like twerps into their thirties. And yall are just too damned ignorant to see you are the root cause of it.

 

[Behr]

WTFE Behr. WTFE. The OP was right about pantywads.

And the rest of us are right about you and the OP.

 

[TNnative]

And the rest of us are right about you and the OP.

That we are not the numbskulls you all are? Thanks for the compliment.

 

[Delmar]

That's the dumbest thing I've read today. I do regret being nice in my first post now. Lol.

Behr, there is no point in getting into a battle of wits with an unarmed man. You’ll just get frustrated. How that is the fault of a random citizen talking about “kids” is beyond me. And I don’t think the poster knows what he was saying anyway. Just spouting to hear himself talk. Just a ridiculous take.

 

[Behr]

That we are not the numbskulls you all are? Thanks for the compliment.

No, that you both use grade school playground tactics when you're wrong and then others embarrass you in public by letting you continue with your naming calling wrongness.

What else is there to this pitiful excuse for a discussion between the two of us? They're college kids playing a football game and you're butthurt because I consider them kids? Lol EAD.

 

[Behr]

Behr, there is no point in getting into a battle of wits with an unarmed man. You’ll just get frustrated. How that is the fault of a random citizen talking about “kids” is beyond me. And I don’t think the poster knows what he was saying anyway. Just spouting to hear himself talk. Just a ridiculous take.

Well to be fair I am a nubskull, but I was way before he called me one.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

I hate to be the one to break it to ya but the entire landscape of college football has changed. No school or booster was giving kids $SEVEN$ figure deals. Caleb Williams has been promised $1,000,000.00 if he transfers to Easter Michigan. Do you think Jackson State gets the #1 player in the country without NIL deals. It’s being reoriented that Texas A&M “boosters”has spent between $30-$40 million this recruiting cycle and it shows with the amount of 5* they have pulled in all of sudden. I agree players need to be paid something but to not regulate it and put rules on is bad for college football. This is free agency of college football and if the NFL and NBA has a salary cap or rules surrounding free agency then why can’t college football have similar rules that regulate and monitor it? You can have your OPINION all you want because it’s yours, but don’t mean it’s right. But for you to sit here and say it hasn’t changed college football is flat out wrong and makes me wonder if you even know anything about the NIL rules. The top media pundits and top college coaches have all said it’s changed college football for better or worse but I guess you know more than Nick Saban or Bill Obrien which both coaches have compared to NFL free agency. And both coaches would know very well about it as Bill Obrien was a GM and head coach in the NFL. I’ll take his word over your about it changing college football.

And many giving out 7 figure deals get burnt a few times and things will settle. Not going to be very many making millions a few not many. And getting that money doesn’t guarantee success automatically. It still goes down on the field. Steinbrenner tried to buy a World Series many years with limited success. The devil rays won the World Series with the lowest payroll. Just saying there is more too it than just being the highest bidder. It could make some young players lazy and fat fast.