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I think NIL has become something nobody expected.

I know much has been written about OSU with the highest NIL account, and I don't care about that or saying anything negative about OSU. NIL has become a problem. This has gone far beyond players making some money. Coach Day is complaining about tampering with the star receivers on the OSU team.

Reports are they are getting offers of up to $5mil. I think that goes way beyond the intent of players being paid. I think that is a big reason why Saban quit probably several years early.

I love college football. I like it way more than the NFL. I can watch college football all day long on Saturdays. The NFL...unless it is the Browns I watch very little. Maybe some Titans, Falcons, or Bucs because I have at least a little rooting interest in those teams for various reasons.

College football will be crushed unless they figure a way to level out this NIL money and the amounts involved. I read somewhere that Carson Beck was driving a Lamborghini around town.

The original argument was those kids couldn't afford to do much unless their parents funneled them some money, and I agreed, but there is a big difference between being able to take your girl out on a nice date once or twice a week and driving her around in a Lambroghini.

Could not agree more. I think a cap is the easy first attempt at fixing this before it's completely broken.

The real root cause is the stupid amounts of money in college football and the longtime answer to it from the NCAA.

NIL is better than what was previously there even if only for the transparency. Also, I'm always a fan of giving the NCAA the middle finger.

A new system is going to need some course-corrects when it's still new.

I also agree. It's a problem that was created with out enough forethought.

Add in that players can move around from school to school almost yearly.

I also can see, in the near future, players that don't get any money may start calling "unfair". As well, you have the soccer teams, volleyball, swimming, track and field, wrestling, tennis, baseball, softball, field hockey, hockey.....on and on coming out and saying "Hey, give us money."

I believe had the NCAA have made some type of reasonable proposal or policy long ago to begin with none of this would have ever happened. It's certainly a mess.

This has already gotten out of hand as there have been numerous reports of schools tampering with other schools' players by telling said players that they will be given so much $$$ if they enter the transfer portal and switch to their school. OSU has gotten flack for spending $20 Mill but I read that both Texas and Oregon spent even more.

I could see a cap and contracts… if you get a $5mil NIL then maybe you have to sign a contract that you won’t go into the portal or something… CFB has become crazy with the portal and NIL

It's true. Also, all the blue-blood programs will be fine and will continue to compete as they always have.

I'm likely in the minority but I do not mind the NIL money being thrown around. If I was a major program one of the first moves I would be making if I was the AD would be to hire a GM to manage the NIL and help target athletes in the transfer portal.

The one change I would make set a defined time period to enter the transfer portal (dumb that it's still be called the transfer portal instead of free agency). For example, free agency period begins the day after the National Championship and lasts for a 30 or 45 window.

2024 NIL spending by college football program:

Jim Knowles hitting the coach transfer portal...

Again, I am not calling out any one school. I am sure all the big schools have plenty of donors to fund NIL.

To a comment by Arch...the reality is at nearly all schools, football funds 80% of the athletic program. Basketball funds some. Baseball at some schools, mostly in the SEC break close to even. After that, teams like volleyball and golf rely entirely on football and basketball funds. Who in here has ever paid to see a college volleyball game or golf match? I doubt many.

I don't know the answer but they need to try whatever it takes to figure it out. This money isn't coming from the schools or NCAA, it's from boosters.

I understand your feelings. I am no fan of the NCAA myself. Many times I have felt the SEC should have just left the NCAA, take their TV contract and several select teams with them and just do their own thing. Maybe this is the start of that process? Not just the SEC, but the bigger schools just moving on to start their own thing outside the parameters of the NCAA.

Who knows?

Women's college volleyball is growing at an exponential pace. ESPN and the NCAA somewhat recently agreed to a nearly $1B TV deal to air volleyball games. Peacock is airing more and more women's college volleyball.

The smaller or more appropriately, schools with tighter budget constraints, might have to eliminate these spots and will have a more difficult time attracting students. The big schools can take a loss on men's rowing or women's tennis and still keep them to attract top students. Universities will soon decide how to divvy up revenue sharing and which programs they want to push

https://apnews.com/article/volleyball-72846bfa850be04c984d109ae47d1359

Also, schools are going to staring paying their athletes directly beginning next year.

These huge donations from boosters to pay athletes........are they tax deductible?

I find it funny that you are so concerned with THEIR wealth opportunity. Do you think they are too young to be handed that money or something? Weird.