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

[Lucky_Lefty]

lets see what this does to all these collectives associated with school
another thing, i wonder how many other schools gonna follow Tennessee and add a talent fee to tickets to help with paying the athletes

Won’t do anything. It’ll be business as usual

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

College bagmen every in shambles

Whole lively hood thrown in the trash off of one ruling

Them days of giving 50k to a 5 star recruit but you keep 10 and tell him he can only get 40k is over

It’s gone nowhere. Schools still paying athletes to come on official and unofficial visits. Paying them to stay committed. Paying them to not transfer. Handlers still getting their cuts. Nothing is changing

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Duke University can dominate the south if they want to.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I wonder how Title IX is gonna play into this. You know soon as football players get put on the official payroll some chick on the women’s bowling team is gonna demand equal compensation.

Schools will probably want to keep direct payments at a minimum because of this and let the boosters run up the NIL numbers like usual.

Some women athletes deserve to get paid a lot especially the women's basketball players. I can smell more lawsuits coming

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Duke University is going to dominate the south if they want to

Duke, Stanford, Harvard, none of those schools are going to throw a ton of money at athletes. They still want people to think they care about education

 

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MENTAL*

 

[Phantum]

Ivy League got paper. Wonder if they'll try to compete

 

[Dorian Breh]

shyt maybe I’ll start watching college sports

Cars mad for sure

 

[Redguard]

Oh this should be interesting.

The blue bloods and big money $chool$ will fine.

I'm more interested in the middling schools like an Ole Miss or others like them where the conference brand gives them a lot more juice than they'd have without it.

If Stanford/Mich/Texas/Harvard ever decided to go all in....shyt $MU too....

$MU probably like:

 

[jadillac]

You guys who don't even watch college sports are happy about this.

Majority of REAL cfb fans have already seen how the sport is being ruined by this. And don't ask me "how so", because if you watch/follow you can already see it.

Players getting paid is fine (I already know half of you will ignore me saying that line),...but no formal process or rules in place is problem. And now that problem will only get bigger.

 

[Wargames]

It’s gonna be weird when we start seeing the NBA draft be a bunch of Juniors and Seniors

 

[Yapdatfool]

You guys who don't even watch college sports are happy about this.

Majority of REAL cfb fans have already seen how the sport is being ruined by this. And don't ask me "how so", because if you watch/follow you can already see it.

Players getting paid is fine (I already know half of you will ignore me saying that line),...but no formal process or rules in place is problem. And now that problem will only get bigger.

Do you advocate for a union?

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Big universities can absorb this, but it’ll be interesting to see how small schools handle athletics going forward. Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of small schools shutter sports.

Business as usual for the top recruits but potentially disastrous for everyone else.

 

[Trojan 24]

It’s gone nowhere. Schools still paying athletes to come on official and unofficial visits. Paying them to stay committed. Paying them to not transfer. Handlers still getting their cuts. Nothing is changing

Ain't nothing better then tax free money

 

[Copy Ninja]

With this decision and how the transfer portal is being abused, CFB is in for some wild fukkery