🏈 Recruiting Tulsa inks impressive class on early signing day

[HuffyCane]

Also instructive. Chelsea's main problems are that they are no longer the beneficiary of what looks to be one of the most sophisticated money laundering schemes in world history.

That said, on paper, they got into trouble by buying up developmental talent and trying to flip them for cash to pay the payroll of the players they wanted to keep was a fool's errand. Anyone with a brain could see it and it left a lot of people wondering if they were intentionally taking losses for tax and money laundering purposes. They are still digging out.

Some have speculated that when the merger and/or 12 team playoff emerges, schools like Oklahoma will be operating G5s like a farm system similar to what Chelsea was trying to do. Where Jimmy needs a couple of years to develop maybe and wants to get a degree, so he is sent to schools like Tulsa and is paid by the NIL of the other school at a lower amount or nothing and promised something later if they sign with OU.

As long as we get at least a chance, on paper, to compete with that big school in the playoff and our whole roster isnt camping out until a spot opens at OU and OSU, Im totally cool with that. Whether OSU goes bankrupt trying to pull a Chelsea, I frankly dont care and hope it happens.

 

[drboobay]

This is a tremendous problem for some student-athletes and one of the dangers the anti-NIL crowd point to, especially offering locked in NIL money over a period of years to high school kids.

Tamira is exceptional and she can handle it. But more than one student athlete making money off Tik Tok and Instagram has gotten into grade trouble and therefore eligibility trouble because they had difficulty adding social media appearances to the already packed student-athlete schedule. Frankly I dont know how some of them do it. Coaches against NIL are generally not against players being paid. They are against athletes jumping through hoops for anyone other than them to get paid. Often with justification. It will take a few years, but you will see the teary eyed Congressional hearing with some athlete saying they lost their cross country scholarship and therefore $200,000 college degree because they were obligated to fulfill the terms of a $25,000 social media contract they excitedly signed with parents permission at 17.

But this is what selling your name, image and likeness is all about IMO. Or should be about. Entrepreneurship.

 

[astonmartin708]

But this is what selling your name, image and likeness is all about IMO. Or should be about. Entrepreneurship.

The real problem is that many of these people are not selling their own name image and likeness…. They’re profiting off of the NIL of the school they go to and the fans that have deep academic and social ties to that organization.

The Johnny Footballs of the world are few and far between.

I think extraordinary athletes should be able to immediately profit off of their talents, but it should be done in Pro leagues that have no relationship with academic institutions.

The easiest way to solve this was to get rid of one and done or two and done rules in the NFL and NBA and let adults go straight from HS to the pros. That way those who deserve more, get more and it doesn’t set off a nuclear bomb on the amateur landscape.

 

[HuffyCane]

But this is what selling your name, image and likeness is all about IMO. Or should be about. Entrepreneurship.

Going to school is a full time job. College football is a full time job. Many people can handle two full time jobs at 20. Many can't. Few can handle a third full time job posting on social media. Prepping, shooting, and especially editing is far more than a 40 hour a week job for most influencers, especially the female ones doing hair, makeup, or destination shoots. Its free lance modeling.

College should encourage entrepreneurship but the Collins College of Business would think twice about sponsoring an entrepreneurship competition where students spent 80 hours a week or more balancing commitments. College athletics can and should think twice about it. Regardless of what Ed O'Bannon and a bunch of other washed up and bitter athletes think about it or what some forum shopped judge thinks either.

The reality is that the marketplace is taking care of the problem. Nobody wants to pay to see a running back walk to class. And nobody will watch an ad for athletic shorts as a safety walks to class.

The problem is at the Olympic level. Where you've got multimillion dollar deals going for a select few and they are distracting both themselves and their teammates who help them set up elaborate shoots, some on a daily basis during the season. And that's before we deal with the fall out of what happens when they graduate and that money stream runs out.

 

[Bill Lowery]

This shows how crazy the NIL is.

 

[HuffyCane]

This shows how crazy the NIL is.

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Manning is an outlier. Its like saying every coach should have the same social media following as Coach Prime.

Would love to see the numbers on actual NIL paid out to the P4 QBs. I can almost guarantee its no where near Kirby Smart's quoted $1 million. Its probably closer to $200,000 under the median. Maybe less. And probably the same for DL. A few kids are getting rich. Not as many as we are being led to believe I suspect.