NIL - The Death Knell of College Football

[Hoosier_Vol]

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.

The NBA might wanna edit something because that's EXACTALLY how the league is now.

 

[Volfan1000]

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.

This post all day long.

 

[Mose Phillip's Watch]

It's a free country bud. Let them get what they can. How selfish are you OP ??? You aren't paying anything so why do you care ? So far your Bezos hypothesis isn't happening

 

[1982Alum]

End Results in 5 Years:

The same teams competing for the national title every year.

Combined with online gambling opening up; Las Vegas will start drawing in a larger share of college sport revenue.

TV ratings overall will go down. TV contracts will not grow as much as they do today.

Less TV revenue to colleges; teams will stop spending ultra-large $$$$ because they don't have the cash anymore.

The NCAA will try and reel it in but too late.