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Reports from ESPN are that the Bilitnikoff winning wr Addison is being offered a million dollar NIL to transfer to USC… he already has a NIL contract with a company, but with absolutely no ncaa rules about it other than teams themselves cannot get involved, boosters are now free to literally buy players off of teams.

This could be important because the teams with the deepest booster pockets aren’t necessarily the best teams… you could see a yale or notre dame literally buy a championship team this way…

Its a situation worth watching … the Nil rules weren’t meant to be weaponized with the transfer portal
 
This stuff will destroy college football. Of course now the big schools will have to deal with free agency year round.
 
Whether you agree with the new NIL or not, college is essentially a semi pro developmental portal to the NFL. I personally am a little torn on it. Kids got taken advantage of monetarily for years, but most were also were getting an expensive education paid for. I don’t know what the answer is, but a new can of worms has certainly been opened.
 
Addison isn’t even in the transfer portal and is being recruited. The deal is reported above $2 million and while USC is the favorite, other teams are supposedly involved.

This will likely open the floodgates and college football will turn into MLB with big money teams using everyone else as a farm team. Unless some structural controls are out into place, a large group of college football should just break away from the 20-25 deep pocket schools and play in their own division on a level playing field with better structural rules in place.
 
bkwheat28 said:
Whether you agree with the new NIL or not, college is essentially a semi pro developmental portal to the NFL. I personally am a little torn on it. Kids got taken advantage of monetarily for years, but most were also were getting an expensive education paid for. I don’t know what the answer is, but a new can of worms has certainly been opened.
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That's the problem, go back to a real student athlete model where the scholarship is just a means to pay for their education. If you want a farm system for football let the NFL make one that highschool players can jump into... Just know you give up you ability to receive a college scholarship if you choose to come back to college.
 
madinsomniac said:
Reports from ESPN are that the Bilitnikoff winning wr Addison is being offered a million dollar NIL to transfer to USC… he already has a NIL contract with a company, but with absolutely no ncaa rules about it other than teams themselves cannot get involved, boosters are now free to literally buy players off of teams.

This could be important because the teams with the deepest booster pockets aren’t necessarily the best teams… you could see a yale or notre dame literally buy a championship team this way…

Its a situation worth watching … the Nil rules weren’t meant to be weaponized with the transfer portal
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We are in a whole notha level of college football. Imo players should get some sort of kickback for jersey sales and what not. But the bulk should be put in a trust that can’t get paid out until they have a bachelors degree. And if they leave early they have to pay their scholarship back which goes into the academic scholarship fund not athletic. Just my opinion. And paying players should just be illegal. Go to the USFL or XFL if you want a paycheck.
 
Too many rich people ruining stuff as always.
Money makes the world go round sadly. College football will be maybe 10 schools with deep pockets that will compete for a national title yearly. All the other schools football wise will be left behind
 
MTC said:
Too many rich people ruining stuff as always.
Money makes the world go round sadly. College football will be maybe 10 schools with deep pockets that will compete for a national title yearly. All the other schools football wise will be left behind
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As I said, the other schools shouldn’t let the deep pocket schools run the show. Break away from them and let them have their small super league and poach off each other.
 
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The kid certainly has talent, being a Pitt Alumni, I enjoyed watching him play last year and a big part of the reason Kenny is in B&G now.
I don't see him earning a degree, but likely in the draft next year.

Sad thing is, this will ruin college football for the smaller schools like Pitt, which ruins the enjoyment of college football for everyone.
 
The issue is going to be that if you rank schools by boosters it really turns it topsy turvey..

Alabama’s biggest booster is on its board, thus probably is forbidden to set up a company to pay guys unless he resigns… les wexler, the ohio state guy who already buys players right and left, is worth 4.7 billion, but that pales to oregon’s phil knight jr, who spends a good portion of his 20 something billion on the ducks football program and could probably buy a national championship squad off of othercteams without batting an eye…
 
bkwheat28 said:
Whether you agree with the new NIL or not, college is essentially a semi pro developmental portal to the NFL. I personally am a little torn on it. Kids got taken advantage of monetarily for years, but most were also were getting an expensive education paid for. I don’t know what the answer is, but a new can of worms has certainly been opened.
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I agree. These are adults by definition of being 18+ years of age. My rule would be if you're taking money you should forfeit that scholarship to someone who isn't being paid. You pay 100%.
 
madinsomniac said:
Reports from ESPN are that the Bilitnikoff winning wr Addison is being offered a million dollar NIL to transfer to USC… he already has a NIL contract with a company, but with absolutely no ncaa rules about it other than teams themselves cannot get involved, boosters are now free to literally buy players off of teams.

This could be important because the teams with the deepest booster pockets aren’t necessarily the best teams… you could see a yale or notre dame literally buy a championship team this way…

Its a situation worth watching … the Nil rules weren’t meant to be weaponized with the transfer portal
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Not Notre Dame. They can only take transfers that meet strict academic standards. That eliminates a lot of players no matter how much the boosters hate it.
 
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troymania said:
Not Notre Dame. They can only take transfers that meet strict academic standards. That eliminates a lot of players no matter how much the boosters hate it.
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Nonetheless they can absolutely target every qualifying guy tgat tgey want now… assuming that the ivy league school alumni don’t suddenly get a bug up their butts about actually winning again…
 
That is true, it still eliminates a bunch of kids. This whole damn thing has turned into the biggest clusterfuck I have ever seen.
 
If the $1 million is true, Pitt has a legit beef with their claim of tampering.
 
TDX27 said:
If the $1 million is true, Pitt has a legit beef with their claim of tampering.
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Addison hasn't entered the transfer portal yet and I believe it's considered tampering for teams or third parties to contact players. The deal is also rumored over $2 million. He was supposedly offered $800,000 by Kentucky and decided to stay at Pitt, so you can assume he got somewhere in that ballpark already from Pitt.

Even if tampering occurred (which it did), nothing will happen and it will potentially open the flood gates for other schools and top players.
 
So if the NIL deals are made with a player and outside of the university can the university charge the player for using the university NIL... Seems fair.
 
BamaSteeler52 said:
So if the NIL deals are made with a player and outside of the university can the university charge the player for using the university NIL... Seems fair.
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Teams aren’t allowed to do anything with NIL… they basically have to stay out of it. NILs are paid by outside parties with no direct connection to the school… Teams cant pay players to attend their school or pay them to stay
 
Yeah there seems to be a misconception that teams are paying players… that isn’t how it works. NILs are outside the team… the ncaa still forbids direct school officials from playing players
 
madinsomniac said:
Yeah there seems to be a misconception that teams are paying players… that isn’t how it works. NILs are outside the team… the ncaa still forbids direct school officials from playing players
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The pay is not from the school, but these big deals are pay for play deals, especially the ones from the boosters groups.
 
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