Breaking news: Schools are now free to begin paying their athletes directly, marking the dawn of a new era in college sports.

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:childplease:what do you think these players gonna spend their money on? AND the HEMI is coming back?
This is what the university is saying to them while showing them the door.
"About that Charger Jayden......"

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that's even worse than adding on a couple of hundred to your student athletic fee.

not a good idea.
It was only a matter of time given how expensive it is to run these athletic programs - especially given the fact that most sports don’t bring in any revenue. This isn’t even a result of the settlement, they just simply were poorly managed for years. It should really reach a point where you have actual division 1 sports and then club sports and D1 sports should be exempt from some of the Title IX laws. You could base on the previous 5 years of data of revenue or something. What the settlement does is require a maximum revenue share number of like 21 million dollars, which now puts pretty much all of the big programs in a deficit.

That’s why I said these guys are weirdly talking about NIL and conflating it with this for no reason. This is straight up athletes getting their fair share of the revenue. The NIL is a “top off” if you will. It’s basically the equivalent of endorsement deals and if someone gets more endorsement dollars then they’re going to go there. It’s not unlike people getting more commercials for being in a bigger market. In fact, it’s the same thing.

But again, this is a result of (1) subsidizing non-revenue generating sports and (2) having a bunch of jobs that otherwise should not or would not exist if players were getting laid. Basically, every major program was getting a 21 million dollar windfall and now they have to figure out how to operate while paying their labor force.

The end result is going to be eliminating scholarships for a lot of non revenue generating sports, lower salaries for coaches, less coaching and admin roles and overall dialing back spending.
 

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For sure he one of those fans who not only never set foot on campus of the school he roots for but couldn’t find it on a map.

Shout out to all the UGA fans I boss around on a daily basis. :mjlol:
Just like your bum ass school can't find how to get to “relevance” on map :mjlol:


nikkas be proud of decades long mediocrity.….at a campus where nobody knows their goofy asses lmaooo.… only in American college sports do you see this shyt.…. Had this nikka in here trying to brag about winning a “division” in a conference :dead:
 

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Plus realistically what ROI would a donor get anyway they don’t make any of the money back and only one team can win the championship every year. Also why set a cap at 25 million when these sec schools and big 10 schools are making more than that in football tv revenue alone.
Ah but that's the thing! :sas1:

Who is more likely to own real estate around their alumni school?

What products are these schools partnering with? Penn state is a Pepsi school for a reason. Who sold that contract? Under Armour was created by a Maryland alum. What company clothes Maryland athletes? Oregon has Nike.

The ROI comes back in the form of school enrollment and brand recognition because the students HAVE to buy things after they move in.

Evvvvveryone makes money off athletics but the athletes.
 

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I don't even understand pro labor and contract arguments where people side with billionaires over millionaires....but this?? IDGAF if Phil Knight or Stephen Ross is happy...pay these motherfukkers.
This unfortunately is a decades long ideological struggle that we lost when we let owners direct our fandom against players, instead of management, when our "favorite team" was broken up over salary cap negotiations.

The salary cap is a myth.

It's not a privilege to play sports.

Your organization's profits are your unpaid labor.
 

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Ah but that's the thing! :sas1:

Who is more likely to own real estate around their alumni school?

What products are these schools partnering with? Penn state is a Pepsi school for a reason. Who sold that contract? Under Armour was created by a Maryland alum. What company clothes Maryland athletes? Oregon has Nike.

The ROI comes back in the form of school enrollment and brand recognition because the students HAVE to buy things after they move in.

Evvvvveryone makes money off athletics but the athletes.
Well said, I didn’t even consider the branding aspect and how all my Michigan gear is now Jordan.
 

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I can definitely see Stanford throwing big money at Olympic athletes. No point in trying to spend money on “dumb” sports like hoops and football, you can get scholars and prestige with Oly athletes
Football teams recruiting has been beastly this off-season. Idk if that's all due to Luck (no pun intended) or how theyre paying the kids.

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