NIL - The Death Knell of College Football

[MontyPython]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

Enjoy watching TN compete for 5* and 4* football recruits? Bad news. If we don't have the deep, deep pockets of our big boosters compared to other schools, we won't be able to compete.

Consider: Jeff Bezos. Princeton graduate. Let's say our buddy Jeff decides that he's sick and tired of his Alma Mater being a total crap school for football. To fix this, Jeff donates 5 BILLION dollars to the BOOSTERS supporting the school.

The boosters then create a massive NIL program that provides EVERY football player on the team with one million dollars per year in NIL compensation. Guess what... completely legal.

Not enough to attract every 5* athlete in the US to Princeton? No worries... Bezos says raise the NIL deal to 5 million per player per year. Still not enough? No worries, 10 million per football player per year. No big whoop... it's only money right?

Now apply this Jeff Bezos / Princeton situation to ANY school and ANY rich person who wants to wag the dog.

Illegal? Nope. Possible? Absolutely.

End result: Game over for TN and/or any traditional football school without the wherewithal to compete FINANCIALLY with other schools.

NIL is a giant, unregulated clusterf*ck that effectively creates "NFL Junior". Worse yet, unlike the NFL there's no "salary cap" on NIL money directed towards these kids.

College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

Enjoy watching TN compete for 5* and 4* football recruits? Bad news. If we don't have the deep, deep pockets of our big boosters compared to other schools, we won't be able to compete.

Consider: Jeff Bezos. Princeton graduate. Let's say our buddy Jeff decides that he's sick and tired of his Alma Mater being a total crap school for football. To fix this, Jeff donates 5 BILLION dollars to the BOOSTERS supporting the school.

The boosters then create a massive NIL program that provides EVERY football player on the team with one million dollars per year in NIL compensation. Guess what... completely legal.

Not enough to attract every 5* athlete in the US to Princeton? No worries... Bezos says raise the NIL deal to 5 million per player per year. Still not enough? No worries, 10 million per football player per year. No big whoop... it's only money right?

Now apply this Jeff Bezos / Princeton situation to ANY school and ANY rich person who wants to wag the dog.

Illegal? Nope. Possible? Absolutely.

End result: Game over for TN and/or any traditional football school without the wherewithal to compete FINANCIALLY with other schools.

NIL is a giant, unregulated clusterf*ck that effectively creates "NFL Junior". Worse yet, unlike the NFL there's no "salary cap" on NIL money directed towards these kids.

College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

You are correct

 

[TnVol!]

Truth.

 

[lilesrt]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

Enjoy watching TN compete for 5* and 4* football recruits? Bad news. If we don't have the deep, deep pockets of our big boosters compared to other schools, we won't be able to compete.

Consider: Jeff Bezos. Princeton graduate. Let's say our buddy Jeff decides that he's sick and tired of his Alma Mater being a total crap school for football. To fix this, Jeff donates 5 BILLION dollars to the BOOSTERS supporting the school.

The boosters then create a massive NIL program that provides EVERY football player on the team with one million dollars per year in NIL compensation. Guess what... completely legal.

Not enough to attract every 5* athlete in the US to Princeton? No worries... Bezos says raise the NIL deal to 5 million per player per year. Still not enough? No worries, 10 million per football player per year. No big whoop... it's only money right?

Now apply this Jeff Bezos / Princeton situation to ANY school and ANY rich person who wants to wag the dog.

Illegal? Nope. Possible? Absolutely.

End result: Game over for TN and/or any traditional football school without the wherewithal to compete FINANCIALLY with other schools.

NIL is a giant, unregulated clusterf*ck that effectively creates "NFL Junior". Worse yet, unlike the NFL there's no "salary cap" on NIL money directed towards these kids.

College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

With coaches making upwards of $7 Million a year, recruiting players, then leaving at the drop of a dime to whore themselves out for “better opportunities”.. I fully support evening the playing field between players and coaches. We, the fans, have created this monster and the betting component (in college football) makes it worse.

Ironically, the players make the wheel spin and, unfortunately, are exploited the most. The players need regular & predictable compensation, aside from NIL earnings.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Yep. People were like oh NIL is gonn be great and it’s gonna help TN. No it’s not. The only ones it’s going to hell are the teams that are already signing mega top ranked classes. In my opinion, the NIL is definitely the end of college football as we know it.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

Sadly, you are likely more correct than I wish you were. But money and the greed of schools was already an issue. It's just now the playbook on the matter has been rewritten. As usual, when the workers revolt and insist on a share of the revenue they generate, the bigshots bemoan the scene change. This whole thing could have been avoided if they had been less mono-optically one-sided and greedy to begin with. NIL? The worst is yet to come, I fear.

 

[Volunteer16]

That's the free market and if there is the demand for football talent at that level of investment, so be it. It already was a facilities and coaches arms race. Now players can get a piece of the pie as well.
But guess what, the recruits will still make decisions based on coaches, systems, development, and relationships as well. Huge fan bases will still matter.

 

[knoxvol16]

Which is why I never liked the idea of NIL in the first place.

At the very least, I think as soon as a STUDENT athlete receives any compensation related to NIL, that value should be deducted from their scholarship.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, NIL will turn college sports into a Jr. Pro league.

 

[VolPack22]

They need to stop shelling out these ridiculous contracts for coaches. That’s what started all this.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Kids used to play for the school.

Now, it’s all who pays more.

Kind of takes the fun out of sports but whatever.

 

[onevol74]

The Texas schools and Oklahoma are about to put Alabama and Georgia in their place.

 

[sonofUT62]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

Enjoy watching TN compete for 5* and 4* football recruits? Bad news. If we don't have the deep, deep pockets of our big boosters compared to other schools, we won't be able to compete.

Consider: Jeff Bezos. Princeton graduate. Let's say our buddy Jeff decides that he's sick and tired of his Alma Mater being a total crap school for football. To fix this, Jeff donates 5 BILLION dollars to the BOOSTERS supporting the school.

The boosters then create a massive NIL program that provides EVERY football player on the team with one million dollars per year in NIL compensation. Guess what... completely legal.

Not enough to attract every 5* athlete in the US to Princeton? No worries... Bezos says raise the NIL deal to 5 million per player per year. Still not enough? No worries, 10 million per football player per year. No big whoop... it's only money right?

Now apply this Jeff Bezos / Princeton situation to ANY school and ANY rich person who wants to wag the dog.

Illegal? Nope. Possible? Absolutely.

End result: Game over for TN and/or any traditional football school without the wherewithal to compete FINANCIALLY with other schools.

NIL is a giant, unregulated clusterf*ck that effectively creates "NFL Junior". Worse yet, unlike the NFL there's no "salary cap" on NIL money directed towards these kids.

College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

Ive dreamt for years about one of these mega billionaires buying the Braves and increasing our payroll to the max allowed under MLB rules. These things never seem to happen that way.

 

[Zues1]

Honesty the coaches salaries should have been capped years ago. Now we're at 10/12 mill a year, 100 million dollar contracts. .
The athletes see this and want a piece of the pie and rightly so.
It's college, amateur sports. Professors who've worked years to get to their level of expertise now making peanuts compared to a fellow employee who might be dumb as a rock but can coach ball.
People poked fun at NDs coach salary. Take a step back and understand Kelly etc were paid a very comfortable wage that was not off the charts stupid money.
Yes the NIL and easy transfer change will kill it.

 

[sonofUT62]

The Texas schools and Oklahoma are about to put Alabama and Georgia in their place.

First I’ve heard you mention it.

 

[Raebo]

There is a reason that the NBA, NFL, MLB all went to the draft system. To make sure the 2 or 3 rich teams don’t get all the top talent. I am ok with the players making money but things will be a lot different I suspect. And probably not in a good way for a lot of schools.

 

[Sudden Impact]

Solution is to give Jeff Bezos an Honorary Degree.....from UTK. Just Kidding. You are right about NIL

 

[sunnyvol79]

By 2030 or sooner college football as we know it will be dead. I can see a 32 team super league just like the NFL with mega rich teams like Bama and Ohio St. and Georgia dominating and getting all the top players and teams like Tennessee on the outside looking in for the breadcrumbs. You know the rich get richer. Money and greed in the end destroy everything that was once pure. Humans will always poison and destroy a garden of Eden and utopia every time.

 

[sonofUT62]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

Enjoy watching TN compete for 5* and 4* football recruits? Bad news. If we don't have the deep, deep pockets of our big boosters compared to other schools, we won't be able to compete.

Consider: Jeff Bezos. Princeton graduate. Let's say our buddy Jeff decides that he's sick and tired of his Alma Mater being a total crap school for football. To fix this, Jeff donates 5 BILLION dollars to the BOOSTERS supporting the school.

The boosters then create a massive NIL program that provides EVERY football player on the team with one million dollars per year in NIL compensation. Guess what... completely legal.

Not enough to attract every 5* athlete in the US to Princeton? No worries... Bezos says raise the NIL deal to 5 million per player per year. Still not enough? No worries, 10 million per football player per year. No big whoop... it's only money right?

Now apply this Jeff Bezos / Princeton situation to ANY school and ANY rich person who wants to wag the dog.

Illegal? Nope. Possible? Absolutely.

End result: Game over for TN and/or any traditional football school without the wherewithal to compete FINANCIALLY with other schools.

NIL is a giant, unregulated clusterf*ck that effectively creates "NFL Junior". Worse yet, unlike the NFL there's no "salary cap" on NIL money directed towards these kids.

College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

The Power 5 is moving next week to form it’s own organization. It will shut out non P5 schools and ND will have to s#it or get off the pot. If this issue is a concern to you then I would worry a lot more about Southern Cal , Stanford or Oregon than I would Princeton.

 

[VolBricks]

it used to be about the name on the front of the jersey, now it is about the name on the back, me, me, me, me, me generation.

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

Let's be real, it's a farm system for the NFL and another multi-billion dollar property for Disney and co. to peddle to the masses masquerading as amateur collegiate athletics. It's only fair the players get a piece of the pie.

 

[GAVol]

Do you really think this all just started a few months ago with NIL? All NIL has done is make the process of making the sausage transparent.

 

[Gandalf]

NIL may be the end of college football (and all athletics) as we know it.

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College football is done.

Money, alone, will drive which schools will attract and retain the best players in the country.

Where have you been the last 20 years? Before, its been who had the best bag men, now it is just more in the open.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Where have you been the last 20 years? Before, its been who had the best bag men, now it is just more in the open.

College Sports has turned into the NBA & NFL

 

[rltw1974]

Sadly, I have said this from the start but instead of Bezos, I have used Nike(Knight) is my conversations.

Essentially, Nike could sponser every 5* that will come to Oregon. No other school could compete!

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

You all are funny. College football is going to be just fine. Plenty of followers, sorry all of you are turning in your fan card. The games will still be played and the tailgates will still go on. College football will continue to be popular. Excited about the Vols and our staff. GBO! VFL!