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[Turbine]

Doesn’t matter. Without those players they don’t get that deal.

The deal is there regardless of where the player cards get shuffled.

Game Day receipts and donations are the only thing the shuffle affects.

[RedTails]

Doesn’t matter. Without those players they don’t get that deal. As I stated earlier…the ncaa was ruined as soon as they started viewing themselves as a commercial entity. The NCAA that a lot of people seem to fantasize about never existed. Now it’s just out in the open.

If the NCAA was about amateurism, it never would have been commercialized. Want to fix things. Take all games off of TV. No sponsorships. Nothing. Then you get an entity that is closer to rec sports than the nfl.

I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to the history of amateur athletics, but shouldn't your ire be with the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia suing the NCAA in the 1980s to be commercialized? Can even go back decades before that with the SEC valuing athletics over education in some early 1900s spats between the SEC and whatever conference existed before the PAC (PCC?)

Think the NCAA had its regulatory hands tied behind its back for a really long time now, and the big boys have had the keys to the pad this whole time.

[CrazyCajun]

I think the billions is a bit overstated..Is it billions in revenue or billions in profit?

5.5 billion in revenue just tv and NCAA, not counting ticket sales, merchandise concessions and donations. They certainly can afford to pay something and if the high profile kids can go get more through NIL so be it but I think if there was a baseline you wouldn’t have teams losing 20,25,30 kids to the portal every year.

[CrazyCajun]

I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to the history of amateur athletics, but shouldn't your ire be with the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia suing the NCAA in the 1980s to be commercialized? Can even go back decades before that with the SEC valuing athletics over education in some early 1900s spats between the SEC and whatever conference existed before the PAC (PCC?)

Think the NCAA had its regulatory hands tied behind its back for a really long time now, and the big boys have had the keys to the pad this whole time.

NCAA and their execs have no problem cashing those fat checks though

[Clutch0364]

I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to the history of amateur athletics, but shouldn't your ire be with the Universities of Oklahoma and Georgia suing the NCAA in the 1980s to be commercialized? Can even go back decades before that with the SEC valuing athletics over education in some early 1900s spats between the SEC and whatever conference existed before the PAC (PCC?)

Think the NCAA had its regulatory hands tied behind its back for a really long time now, and the big boys have had the keys to the pad this whole time.

Oh you can go back much farther than that. Don’t remember the exact years from the book I read but Yale decided to take control over their rowing team in the early 1900’s when they realized how much money the team had raised.

My ire is with the adults who never acted like adults. What you have today is an overcorrection to years of not allowing players to make money. Using the idea of amateurism as the excuse. If the adults would have looked out for the future and not just themselves, we’d be in a much better place today.

[Turbine]

I want reparations for the death penalty.

How dare Shipley loan players his car keys and ask them to fill up his tank.

How about a $Billion

[CrazyCajun]

Oh you can go back much farther than that. Don’t remember the exact years from the book I read but Yale decided to take control over their rowing team in the early 1900’s when they realized how much money the team had raised.

My ire is with the adults who never acted like adults. What you have today is an overcorrection to years of not allowing players to make money. Using the idea of amateurism as the excuse. If the adults would have looked out for the future and not just themselves, we’d be in a much better place today.

This right here, the chickens are coming home to roost.

[R1Letterman]

Great point about the adults, although many of those adults "grew up" in the same system

[VObserver]

Title 9 complicates the ____ out of this arguement

And yet some of the biggest NIL deals have gone to women; and those are mostly real NIL, not booster money. See Clark, Buechers and Watkins, all with 8 figure deals.

[CAJUNSby90]

And yet some of the biggest NIL deals have gone to women; and those are mostly real NIL, not booster money. See Clark, Buechers and Watkins, all with 8 figure deals.

Done by companies trying to be inclusive.