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

[MikelArteta]

I'm glad also will lead to better college basketball even more

If you're not a lotto pick and have eligibility left why even come out

 

[GunRanger]

NIL shouldve always been about guys being allowed to make money on their own. Having schools pay directly is just a worse form of the major leagues, especially with thw transfer portal being abused

College sports is worse off

 

[Ku$h Parker]

EA Sports College Football 26 puts school payout in hand of fans

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

I'm glad also will lead to better college basketball even more

If you're not a lotto pick and have eligibility left why even come out

Xaviern Lee from Princeton University just did that same thing. He knew he wasn’t going to be a lottery pick this year so he took the 6 million NIL deal from the University Of Florida for graduate school instead.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'm glad also will lead to better college basketball even more

If you're not a lotto pick and have eligibility left why even come out

We've already seen that in CFB. Winning programs are full of upperclassmen who came back. The Michigan way

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

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

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

 

[GilSho]

College sports will be irrelevant in a decade or two.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

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

Oregon, Stanford, Baylor track teams gonna be fukkin ballin. Good for them.

Ivy league crew team better get theirs too

Edit: wait, I don't give a shyt about ivy league rowing

 

[jadillac]

if the only way they were able to employ these people was because of free labor then tough shyt that those jobs are lost. too many people were benefiting from free labor. maybe cut the head coach's salary ... got coordinators making $2-3m a year like that shyt is suppose to be normal.

NIL has been around for 5-6 years now, so what are you talking about?

 

[triplehate]

Well, for one the cfb playoff has nothing to do with this, because that's it's own governing body. I mean, I guess for the schools who made it it's good for their revenue, reputation etc.
But far as paying players, the issue is there are no rules and no oversight . So for example, you might think in spring camp you have a particular star QB going into next season, and he can just enter the transfer portal with no warning because some other school is poaching him on the low. Now you're assed-out bc you don't have anyone.

Most major schools canceled their spring scrimmage games going forward, which is MAJOR a cfb tradition everywhere, simply bc they don't want any footage of their players to exist so that another school can buy them away.

Tennessee qb was negotiating (allegedly) with other schools while they were preparing for their playoff game. Then suddenly 2-3 months later he's holding out, then transferring.

Cfb is a very tradition rich sport and old fans (who are the alumni who donate and support programs) are already checking out, stopping donations etc.

I'm all for players being paid, but there needs to be some oversight. Currently it's just a free for all.

I know it's probably because I have a simplistic view of it, but I thought they have like a budget they can allot for players. And that's better overall than being dependent on donors influencing hiring and firing and thinking they run the program.

But again not a diehard, I don't know anything about the team until they on the field week 1(or like week 5 in the case of Chris Johnson at ECU)

 

[hashmander]

NIL has been around for 5-6 years now, so what are you talking about?

so it wasn't your post i was responding to or am i imagining that? if the only way OU were able to employ these 5% of people they're cutting was because they didn't have to share revenue with labor then tough shyt. i don't know any other to say it so that you get what i'm talking about.

 

[jadillac]

so it wasn't your post i was responding to or am i imagining that? if the only way OU were able to employ these 5% of people they're cutting was because they didn't have to share revenue with labor then tough shyt. i don't know any other to say it so that you get what i'm talking about.

It was my post, but again NIL has been around going on 5-6 years. So these jobs were fine before. This cut just happened because NIL is getting out of Control with no oversight.

Paying someone $4 mil dollars to transfer to your school to play cfb and they get hurt & never see the field is STUPID.

There needs to be rules, contracts, or something in place.

 

[No1]

OU, is a MAJOR school and has already began laying off athletic dept staff bc of this (NIL) . Expect other schools to follow.

When we say it's a mess, it's a mess

OU athletic department to lay off 5% of staff due to looming revenue-sharing with athletes

OU confirmed to the OU Daily late Thursday what athletic department employees learned via a mass email Wednesday: The university is laying off employees due to the looming realities of

www.oudaily.com

So basically a bunch of people who benefited off of the free labor of black men and you think it’s a mess? Basically they had jobs they would not have had otherwise if the athletes were properly compensated. I know a bunch of businesses that could hire more staff if they paid the primary breadwinners nothing.

Do you realize college trainers make more than the training staff for professional athletes? It’s because they have a windfall of not having to be factored into an overall budget that includes millions to athletes. All these people benefited off the back of free labor and stuffed their pockets and never wanted to share money with the athletes. They fought it when the Northwestern kids tried to unionize. And mess that exists is self inflicted and have no sympathy and the smallest violin. Why didn’t those donors go to bat for the kids to get paid? They can go sit the fukk down.

The real issue here is that OU - despite you calling it a major university is 45 out of 69 power 5 conference universities in terms of endowment (and I don’t know if that number includes a school like Notre Dame). A lot of you guys have been les to believe many of these schools have deeper pockets and are more prestigious than you think because of their athletic prowess.

 

[Uitomy]

This basically makes them faculty half these mf not even real students at this point lol. But you know I blame America for tricking millions of young people for over a millennia to basically play at a professional level on the high end of college for just a scholarship when they're literally putting their bodies and even lives on the line.

 

[No1]

Cfb is a very tradition rich sport and old fans (who are the alumni who donate and support programs) are already checking out, stopping donations etc.

I'm all for players being paid, but there needs to be some oversight. Currently it's just a free for all.

First off, this is bullshyt. No one is checking out but a bunch of boomers and white people who don’t like black people getting paid and enjoyed free labor and are envious. This is literally a bunch of people like you brainwashed into seeing things this way claiming it’s a problem simply because it’s not what you’re accustomed to when it should have been the norm all along.

No one is stopping donations - they just know they can’t compete in an equitable world. You’re basically saying to limit compensation so that schools without bread can still compete. The only oversight you need is for players to be able to collective bargain for their rights and standardized contractual terms. There should be no salary cap, which is an anti capitalist tool used to benefit owners.