NIL will kill the NFL

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CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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No.
Because of the 3 stars at other universities who grow into the majority of NFL players.
Who won't have such lucartive NIL deals....
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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This thread is a horrible take.
 
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LittleVol said:
No.
Because of the 3 stars at other universities who grow into the majority of NFL players.
Who won't have such lucartive NIL deals....
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The fallacy in your argument is that the only reason there are more 3* players in the NFL is because there are simply more 3* players coming out of high school.
 
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jeff1vol said:
The ONLY solution to this WHOLE problem is for the NFL to create a farm system and draft out of HS just like baseball. You dont want to go to class.... go to the NFDL. Get the PROS OUT of college athletics!!
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Ding. Ding, Ding, Winner, Winner, Chicken dinner. This is exactly what needs to happen but never will. Why would the NFL spend the money on a farm system when it gets the players for free now?

I do think there are regulations coming down the pike for all of this NIL money. There has to be caps put in place or rich boosters could buy championships for their universities. That is the reason for salary caps in the NFL if not billionaires would just buy championships.
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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Disagree to a point. CEOs of multibillion companies still have to answer to shareholders. If this were the case, Arkansas would be leading the nation in NIL $$$$ with the Waltons and Memphis would be doing a lot more NIL with FedEx.

If a deal makes sense, a company will do it but they won't do it just because the CEO went to ________
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Disagree to a point. CEOs of multibillion companies still have to answer to shareholders. If this were the case, Arkansas would be leading the nation in NIL $$$$ with the Waltons and Memphis would be doing a lot more NIL with FedEx. Heck, Oregon has essentially been a NIL progra, for the past 20 years with Phil Knight and they haven't taken over college football
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with the rules that are currently in place, that is entirely legal and a real possibility
 
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The NFL is by far the most popular sport in the country and makes a gajillion dollars so they can invest that much in player salaries. College football will never be like that even if the programs are bought and owned by private companies. And CEOs get to be that by having some decent business sense. Trying to compete with the NFL on salaries make no business sense.
 
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I've wondered about this...

5* player out of HS is given an NIL deal to be a spokesperson for the Falcons (if he goes to UGA). Then after his 3 years is up, maybe has some type of prearranged deal to sign with Falcons as a free agent....if the NFL ever allowed players to "block" themselves from the draft this could create a defacto farm system?
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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Thoughts? Put down the pipe.
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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So let me get this straight....you think if NIL starts netting some players $10 million a year (which I'll believe it when I see it) that the NFL who has more money than God will go out of business because they can't compete?

Also you think the majority of 22 year olds who would bring in $10 million would simply just stop playing at 22, i.e. stop getting millions a year and leaving the potential of making millions just out there? That's quite a naive take.
 
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The Original Fade said:
CEOs of large multimillion corporations are about to figure out that they can buy national championships for their Alma maters by simply paying NFL money to blue chip recruits, even more.

And if you’re that blue chip player making 10 mil + per season at XYZ university, why would you go to the NFL for probably less money and the risk of permanent injury when you can walk away from college with 40 mil in your pocket?

Thoughts?
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The NFL cannot be killed.
CEOs are looking for ROI, carrying their alma mater's football program isn't a smart investment.
Blue chip recruits will not make 10M per year in the NIL NCAA.
Blue chip player who does well financially in college will burn through that money and still need the NFL money/
Only a small fraction of professional athletes walk away from the game with any significant money in their pocket.
 
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golfballs said:
The NFL is by far the most popular sport in the country and makes a gajillion dollars so they can invest that much in player salaries. College football will never be like that even if the programs are bought and owned by private companies. And CEOs get to be that by having some decent business sense. Trying to compete with the NFL on salaries make no business sense.
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This. That's what happened back when the USFL out bid the NFL for Hershel Walker and the CFL got Rocket Ismail. The NFL had to ante up and start paying players significantly more money.
 
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The Original Fade said:
with the rules that are currently in place, that is entirely legal and a real possibility
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Let's look at FedEx here in Memphis. CEO and founder (Fred Smith) is huge Memphis booster. Memphis basketball has 2 players that will be Top 5 picks in the draft (if Penny don't F them up too bad) but FedEx has barely dabbled in the NIL landscape. A publicly traded corporaiton won't do deals that don't make sense for the shareholders.

It's why you don't see PILOT doing a lot of NIL stuff (they are under Berkshire Hathaway/Warren Buffett control). You think Warren Buffett is doing to be OK with paying Hendon Hooker two million dollars to stay and play college football? He won't be OK with it unless it somehow makes Pilot more valuable.
 
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