Pedescleaux to Tulane

[CajunVic]

Only those who have sat behind All-Americans for two or three years yet respect their own potential enough to expect a pro career "if given a chance to improve" will be ready to play for little or no NIL money.

GO get EM Des, this is not a hard to desipher group.

I have not met too many young people who lack interest in money. I guess that is my hang up.

[RedTails]

I don't envy Dez or any other G5 coach. Kind of hard to build and sustain culture when each player is working for an NIL call and worrying about a friend on the team working on an NIL call. And I think we need a new term: P5 contract. True NIL was intended to allow popular players (Manziel) to sell autographs and do endorsements due to true national recognition.

A Trey Amos and a Kam Pedescleaux don't have name recognition for endorsements. They are looking for P5 contracts.

[CajunVic]

I don’t think the US Supreme Court intended to only protect the abilities of the limited few you identify when they came down with the NIL decision.

[Turbine]

I have not met too many young people who lack interest in money. I guess that is my hang up.

Very valid point, but (I believe) when they see the empty pot at the end of the rainbow (and the rainbow fading) they will listen to logic. ...

[babysitter]

Did anyone at any point actually think that NIL and the portal was ever going to be a positive for college athletics ? You could see this train wreck coming from miles away and it's going to get worse. Again, like some of you including myself have said, mid majors have no shot. It's all part of the grand scheme. Nothing but a bunch of farm systems for the bigger universities that can afford to pay. Mid majors will never match up with the checkbooks of others. It will never happen. It's truly a sad deal.

[moorecajun]

Which means you need to have boosters who are willing to help you buy a team.

Guess what we don’t have.

Whether I could or not doesn't come into play here because I don't beleive in this whole concept. I also believe it is a money pit; it will just continue to need feeding.

I am crazy, I really like(d) amateur sports.

Anybody for a game of badmitton?

[Boomer]

Very valid point, but (I believe) when they see the empty pot at the end of the rainbow (and the rainbow fading) they will listen to logic. ...

….THERE IS A GOOD UL SITUATION——-ALMOST……We are in a strong g-5 conference….we have great facilities (I don’t even count the football stadium)….training table …..school academics…..history….culture if used correctly……our only problem is lack of attendance…..that is it!!!!! If we would pack the house, we have it over all the g-5s, or very close……damn students, alumni, and Acadiana residents……how about a “PACK THE STADIUM CROWD/GAME/?? Sometimes we are so close yet so far away!

[RedTails]

I don’t think the US Supreme Court intended to only protect the abilities of the limited few you identify when they came down with the NIL decision.

Right. But NIL in its infancy was sold to everyone in that idealistic way. But realistically it was Pandora's Box that would allow unrestricted free agency in college athletics.

[CajunVic]

The Supreme Court had absolutely no interest in the concept of amateurism except for the fact that it unconstitutionally deprived certain citizens of the right to make money.

The problem is that once controlled access to money is removed from amateurism, it in reality destroys the concept.

I’m not sure where college sports goes from here but rest assured that there will be no limitations, controls, rules on money making.

In fact, if the NCAA tries going back to restricting eligibility to play upon transfer as a means to curb the effects of open NIL, I’m not sure that the US Supreme Court may not go one step further and rule that such restrictions are indirectly unconstitutional on the same basis.

[Turbine]

The Supreme Court had absolutely no interest in the concept of amateurism except for the fact that it unconstitutionally deprived certain citizens of the right to make money.

The problem is that once controlled access to money is removed from amateurism, it in reality destroys the concept.

I’m not sure where college sports goes from here but rest assured that there will be no limitations, controls, rules on money making.

In fact, if the NCAA tries going back to restricting eligibility to play upon transfer as a means to curb the effects of open NIL, I’m not sure that the US Supreme Court may not go one step further and rule that such restrictions are indirectly unconstitutional on the same basis.

Do you think the "self imposed" restriction MLB places on itself by refraining from drafting post Frosh, Soph, and pre Jr. players will be challenged in the courts?

[CajunVic]

Do you think the "self imposed" restriction MLB places on itself by refraining from drafting post Frosh, Soph, and pre Jr. players will be challenged in the courts?

No. Like the Supreme Court never ruled that any player is entitled to play college sports, they will not rule that any player is entitled to play professional sports.

What they ruled is that college sports (NCAA) can’t abridge a players right to make money just because they play that sport.

[Cajunrunner]

Whether I could or not doesn't come into play here because I don't beleive in this whole concept. I also believe it is a money pit; it will just continue to need feeding.

I am crazy, I really like(d) amateur sports.

Anybody for a game of badmitton?

Agree.

Except for the badmitton part.