Yes, but typically, the NCAA would cheat the students out of money and they would make sure that revenue generating sports would help finance non-revenue generating sports. It’s just common that every sport can’t become popular and make money, but we should have athletes competing in all types of sports.
$9000 by 30000 student athletes is only $270 million. The total settlement is around $3 billion for the ACC, SEC, Big 10, and Big 12. That comes out to $46875000 per university so it is plenty of money for volleyball, gymnastics, etc. If the Oklahoma Sooners gymnastics team has only a dozen, and with only $9000 salary, and so that comes out to only $108000.
A lot times when they hire a reporter for a certain segment it's because the person had a background in that segment. The guy might've been a former professional.
I ran track and cross country in college. There is no way track and xc draws the same crowds as football and basketball lolol. The money follows the sports with more crowds/media draw. Its not unfair it's just how it is and how it's always been
Yeah, man. I ran track in college, was the team’s top long jumper and #2 sprinter, and almost had to take a year off because my mother was short on her financial aid contribution. Desperate, I asked the Head Coach if there was any financial means by which the team could help. Nope. Btw, I also worked and stayed on top my student contributions, but the IVY’s didn’t have athletic scholarships at that time.
Just call football semi pro ball at that point. Sorry not sorry but they shouldn't exist anymore and be an actual sports league at that point and not associated with any academic rigor whatsoever.
@@chesterwilberforce9832 Same here! My parents never saw me compete, and I was a 5 time New England Champ, competed at Harvard, and even traveled to Ireland and England to compete. I'm a lot older now, and they've passed away, but yeah, I hear you. Be well.
So know it’s even the university’s that are racking in millions now have to share with the kids they make it off the backs of. This is capitalism. Funny how this works and the universities act like they are victims
@@whoishim2998 people that bring value to their school, financial value. Do you have a job? You get paid an amount, others get an amount. Someone probably cleans toilets where you work others run the joint. It’s called capitalism.
It’s almost always been this way. To idealize “college sports” as anything special is nonsense. Even in my competitive club sport days, I felt it was a part time job I had for ~7months of the school year.
There have always been “haves & have-nots” in college sports. This trend of NIL money follows the revenue generating sports nationally and locally. It’s the market acknowledging what the work is trying to pretend isn’t true.
There are no more college sports. It is ruined, I want NFL on Saturdays in the Fall now. There is no reason to help out college football anymore. Want to pretend to be pro, compete like a pro.
@@peterdangelo5882 so we instead just exploit their labor and have TV and universities make millions while the athletes make nothing? This is way better, pay the kids, let them get sponsorships.
What was happening before where “programs”, coaches and educational institutes were getting rich off starving athletes was also NOT the right answer ….
No athletes have been "starving" with free education, free room and board, free utilities, cable, etc., free food, free health care, etc. Either way, if society weren't so obsessed with athletes and entertainers, maybe society would stop complaining about the rest of society's issues since most can't afford the daily things they need to live. But they'll surely spend their last dollar to watch a game. Society's priorities are what is messed up.
That is exactly what the NIL was intended to do. To compensate players whenever they appeared in an ad or a video game. The other problem was the NCAA allowing coaches to dump schools even after signing contract extensions.
Play or don't - there is no right to college sports. Wait and watch, the same money teams will take over and then it will not be worth watching. I love how college bowls went from awesome to lucky if anyone bothers to play. Just end them. Lets not pretend this is college anymore - money turns everything to crap. But hey, kids can get paid. Great cause that is all that matters anymore.
@HayyywardNo one cared about free education, free room and board and all that other BS was a given since the athlete is coming to your school to help make the school money by putting their body on the line. And the free healthcare was only in effect if the kid got hurt playing the sport they were sent there to play in the first place. So stop with the BS. The schools and coaches were making millions of the sweat, blood, and tears of these kids and most of them couldn't even buy a sandwich after the school restaurants closed in the evening.
Why should non-revenue sports be paying players ? Players should be paid if they generate money. The revenue generating athletes are being shortchanged. The money they generate is being given away others.
Pitt was there a well. Just didn’t take the hit SMU did lol. I’ve told my friends to be on alert for SMU football because of NIL. That fanbase doesn’t mess around
""NIL money" now is not really Name Image and Likeness for the most part. NIL is now mostly just Recruitment Money and paying players to come to play for a certain University
Idk the biggest names are on the commercials with sponsorships like Quinn Ewers on the Dr Pepper commercials. Then think of Kaitlin Clark or Livvy Dunn outside of football and men’s basketball essentially as celebrities/influencers.
The programs that make money, men's football and basketball, used to subsidie the other sports. Not anymore. The big loser in the NIL era is women's sports.
The problem is non coach is ever fired for not graduating enough players. NO ONE cares if these kids EVER graduate yet they are expected to spend 40 hours a week training to perform for the school travel for the school miss classes for the school.
Long overdue, honestly. Football and big-time basketball financed these sports for decades. In all that time, colleges never figured out a more effective way to fund those other sports. That's a failure on the colleges, not on NIL.
Good luck on getting your high school senior into a major university in your home state. There's 5 D1 universities in my home state. We prepaid college, and none of them accepted our kid. 4.0 GPA and great test scores to boot. I honestly feel that they weren't interested since they can't make money off the kid that lives down the street whose parents locked in 2010 rates. But every out of state university that was applied for, my kid got into. These "institutions" know that they can get 5 to 6 times the tuition and housing money from out of state kids. That's what is paying the NIL. It's a racket. There's a good 30 to 35k difference between in state vs out of state. Scholarships wrap up the difference, but damn...
@theraplawyer Sure, donors give money. Have for years. How do you think Oregon can afford to have had newly designed uniforms every game in the past decade or so? I said what I said from experience. For example- Ohio State has 67,000 enrollment. 70% enrolled are in state. There's a $27,000 difference in tuition. Alone, the out of state students bank the university $542 million.
No, the problem is pretending that basketball and football at college is not professional. If we were to stop treating college sports like the pros without the legal and cultural acknowledgement of their professionalism we could keep having nice things.
NCAA missed the mark by not regulating the NIL. It should have been a percentage of merchandise sales, ticket sales and tv contracts. Then any endorsement money that the kids make is 100% theirs. With the way it is now the schools with the most money just buy the most talented kids.
Its always been that way, the blue bloods of each sport became blue bloods for a reason. All NIL did was take some control away from coaches. A kid who feels they should be playing doesn't have to sit at the end of the bench because the coach has a favorite
No they could have said 12 years ago everyone in D1 gets a stipend (the football/basketball players weren't asking for much, even 30K, increased for inflation would have been fine) and if you can't afford a stipend then f-off to the lower divisions. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE'D HAVE TO PAY WOMEN'S ROWING TEAM 1/10000th of what the offensive coordinator makes. Anyway it was all a BS excuse. There is nowhere in title IX by-laws that the women's rowing team would have to been paid, just vague statements about equal funding w/o saying what kind of funding that entails (for example it could be just be adding a few more women's scholarship sports). I'm sure an argument could be made by a very good lawyer that having a scholarship in a money pit of a sport is a stipend in itself. If you take a case like this to SCOTUS and who knows what our quorum of old as dirt wizards might do. Hell they might eliminate Title IX all together.
Meanwhile tuition skyrockets thus burying students under a mountain of debt. No one can afford to go to college and tuition and alumni programs are funding this madness! Sports benefits no one but pads the pockets of a few. They might be good entertainment for a couple of hours and a healthy lifestyle for the dozen athletes that get onto the court, but this harms society at large.
That's why people should reinforce to non-athlete student teenagers that college can wait. Their lack of attendance is the only thing that is going to reign in this corpora-socialist madness.
@@Frank-ii2ug Are you actually curious or is this rhetorical? When universities prioritize sports like football and basketball over academics like physics, biology, chemistry (insert things that matter here), tuition rises to fund athletic programs, diverting resources away from education and saddling students with unnecessary debt. This benefits only a few select, coaches/athletes along with people who are wealthy and can send their kids off. Focusing on only sports undermines the true purpose of universities (which is to educate and prepare an informed, skilled society). The problem isn't that SpOrTs eXiSts....they just tend to be over exaggerated in value to what truly matters: Equipping future generations with better tools to build a better future. Dismissing these concerns by downplaying it with a disingenuous question like yours only highlights what happens when you are not educated enough to see or plan for long-term and shows that you prefer to only appear smart by making "gotcha" questions for your short-sighted performative response to a legit concern which is EXACTLY why this news is showing this segment. TLDR; Putting Sports over Education is a really REALLY bad idea. You think rockets just put themselves there in the sky? No, it takes hard work, studying and understanding and seeing which way the team can run the ball fastest to the other side of the endzone doesn't really fly people to the moon or achieve anything.
As long as the same rules apply to coaches and administrators. Which was part of the problem in the first place-they didn’t. Now they’re taking their own medicine
That all depends on what you think college sports are for. If you think they exist to entertain the masses, then yes we should limit limits kids abilities to sell their name and play with who they want. If you think college athletics exists as a club for participants to come together, grow, and build life experience through competition; we should not be adding limits to how and who kids spend their time playing with.
To think the NCAA created this environment themselves whereas they could've avoided it if they had given student-athletes some working wage especially for profiting from an amateur. There was a small step to be made but the NCAA went all in and called bluff and lost.
I get it, but tuition is still something the athletes all have gotten historically. If you added on a set “working wage” then people would clamor for that wage to be equal whether it’s a star quarterback or a pole vaulter. Any differences between schools, sports, or genders would be deemed “unfair” by many (Title IX, etc.) It’s nuts but you know that would happen.
There’s a difference between NIL and a Collective for the top universities. They shouldn’t be intertwined, collective simply just pays athletes. It’s a collective of alums and others with interest in the university, essentially pooling money together to bring in top talent to their athletic programs.
It's time to get rid of NCAA sports at colleges. It's totally stupid to begin with and continues to get even more ridiculous. These are supposed to be academic institutions and instead we are spending billions so "students" can throw balls and run.
Besides all of their scholarship money should go to lesser athletes and academic students that are giving value to society. Sports are not needed for society.
Maybe you didn't realize this, but college athletics also help schools to pay for non-athletic scholarships, buildings and other university costs. 100% does not stay in athletic departments. This is profit for schools that know what they are doing. Without major college sports, many colleges and universities would be hurting financially. So throwing a ball and running is a very good thing, as it relates to academics.
I have a revolutionary idea. Remove sports from colleges. They exist to educate students and not run semipro sports leagues. College sports are out of control and we now have "bread and circuses" in college. They have a farm league for baseball. They can have a farm league for basketball and football as well...and this is coming from someone who played three sports (football, basketball and track) in high school.
Ladies basketball is doing just fine. They are making more than the pros. The "other" sports have always be supported by Football, Basketball, and depending on regions, Soccer, Gymnastics, Swimming, Tennis, Skiing, Field & Tracking. The dollars have always correlated to eyeballs and moving merch.
The ones being robbed are the students. Everyone in college sports making big money while the students pay outrageous tuition rates. 90% of athletic profits should go directly to the school for paying faculty and reducing tuition costs.
NIL has completely ruined college sports. It’s no fun to root for your favorite college team. Next year, players won’t be there. Money always ruins good things.
I still follow college football and basketball, but college football has gone from my clear number 1 interest as recently as 5 years ago to a distant second to the NFL over the last 5 years. Part of the fun of being a diehard college fan was following recruiting in the offseason and then having players in the program for 4 or 5 years and watch them develop as players. Now like probably 8 or 9 of the starters next year for my favorite college team (University of Maryland where I went) will be transfer portal guys I haven't heard of.
College sports are officially dead. NIL needs capped. Sports betting being legalized across the nation & it promoted has negatively impacted the sports too.
@@Matt-wo9ws yes and no. 99.9% of college athletes will never go pro, ever. they were getting a free education at a time when higher education costs in the US are the highest ever. still, 99.9% of athletes will never go pro, but now they're making $ (and sure, most aren't making big money) but now they're all chasing money and education isn't even a thought. you have people transferring 5x in 5 years. its a joke.
Television and advertising killed the traditional college sport. NIL isn't the root cause. These colleges, for many reasons, have turned into corporations and the bottom line. Simply look at tuition and government guaranteed loans that can't be written off with bankruptcy. This was inevitable.
NCAA sports has always been a story of have and have nots. Before NIL Men’s soccer had 9 full ride scholarships available ; women’s had 13. Football had 85 before NIL. I think NIL has finally balanced the power between athletes and schools / conferences. NCAA schools and conferences had been making all of the money based on skilled “student athletes”… 99% of NCAA football and basketball players won’t turn pro so why not give them a fair share of the revenue? This was totally ignored in the segment 😢
In the "old'" days -- those have-not sports were necessary to boost the athletics' department overall GPA at football/basketball powerhouses. Now, even remotely claiming that the classroom means something is gone. And just wait until the upcoming changes to March Madness occurs -- whether it's expanding the field in its current form or having the major conferences operate the tourney; the stories of major upsets and cool runs by a mid-major will be over....forever.
My biggest fear with NIL money is that some of the donors will no longer donate money to build new facilities on college campuses around the nation. Instead those donors are giving money to a schools NIL collective which goes directly to the players pocket. There is only so much money in the market to be donated to colleges, that money is just going to be allocated differently.
So what! The number one thing americans love but america hates is when a regular person can take advantage of a broken system, though all of our poloticians do it day in and 34 terms out
That coach has been at Oakland for 40 years and has had one good tournament run. NIL is not going to change the routine that he has to recruit players that the more prestigious schools pass on. Before NIL, the two players that left after last year's run were susceptible to leaving anyway for the same reasons. They were players that the school that offered them $500,000 (just accepting that since the coach brought it up) didn't know about until seeing them in the tournament. The only difference being that before NIL, there was booster money, other illegal money or items, and the allure of the brand of the school. With NIL he's still recruiting players that big money schools don't want or know nothing about. And NIL is more about the brand appeal of the athlete than the brand of the school. Sure, every football player on Texas' team might get more of a base amount there because Texas makes the most from merchandising than any other school. But the QB is going to make more than anybody on the team and athletes make most of their NIL based on their own brand appeal. That's why at one point the highest paid athlete in NIL money was an LSU gymnast. And it wasn't because she was the best in the country, a champion, or from gymnastics being a major sport. It was because she was a cute blonde white girl that had a major social media following.
I had thought it just allowed players corporate deals/sales, and NOT playtime. The first is had, the second is unacceptable. They are "student athletes", student comes first. Nothing above a scholarship for expenses.
You reap what you sow. NCAA had been putting these athletes on a pedestal and making money off their hard work for decades without any of the athletes seeing a single dime. Athletes are now getting what’s theirs and not letting the NCAA take advantage of them. If you don’t agree, go ask Johnny Manziel or Tim Tebow how much they made from their time playing college football.
Oh bo hoo, all this time colleges would get players for basically free, so they could pay coaches the same money that pro coaches make. It’s only right that the players that make incredible sacrifices to play a sport at that level make money when someone buys their jersey. In the past the NCAA made all that money. Small schools will stay small and big schools will stay big, nothing changes, except the players are compensated an amount that whatever sponsors thinks they are worth.
There always have been the haves vs the have nots, based on schools athletes budgets, facilities, and support personnel. NIL just widens the gap. What I can see happen is a sub division in basketball and maybe other sports being created where NIL is not allowed vs. being allowed. There will be no basis for a lawsuit, as the non NIL league can use the fact that students willing decide to go to a schools that has rules against NIL or willing does not do NIL. Some schools have even started to end NIL Collectives, as they realize that are fighting an up hill battle trying to keep up with the bigger programs.
Let’s create new divisions based on how much NIL money each program’s players receive. Maybe D1 = schools spending NIL money and D2/D3 do not. It’s close to that now.
Let’s be honest. And I’m not saying it shouldn’t be this way. These are basically professional sports housed in collegiate academic institutions. With that kind of money are these ‘students’ going to Go to class Study for exams Expend time, energy, resources on acquiring knowledge This has morphed into a strange beast where fans are seeking entertainment by paying handsomely from very young people. … high school next.
When have there not been “have-not” sports? Anyone care about tuition-paying students? Tuitions paying students are getting ripped off, not cross country runners on scholarships.
What an awful piece: nothing more than a cursory brushing of the sea change issue in college sports. No one actually said anything. “Haves” and “have nots” have been an issue long before NIL. There whole point of NIL is that each athlete gets paid what they specifically can get. The story mentions that the female track athlete gets a third of what some male athlete gets, without any discussion of how much that might be or the fact that everyone was precluded from taking any money, even endorsement money, under the previous system. This is a horribly apt example of the direction modern media is headed. No better than clickbait. Absent the technical production value, this is something a junior high school kid could put together for a school project or just out of boredom.
Fan interest and TV viewers determine the worth of NIL deals.......There are no have and have not's, there are simply the "seen" and the "unseen".......it's a fair system
Once you get money into the equation,the market rules, and doesn’t care about equity. Sports that generate big revenue will get the money, and sports no one will buy tickets for won’t.
Paying college athletes has to be one of the DUMBEST things I’ve ever heard of. Get a life, people. Work on your own goals instead of cheering on children getting paid to play college sports. College should be for education. If people want to get paid to play, form a junior league before going professional. Tuition money pushed towards an athlete for scholarships should be pushed to legitimate students, not athletes. This is a circus, and people are dumb enough to buy into it.
College sports has ALWAYS been haves and have nots this is such a non story. In fact there’s more clarity and upsets now than ever. Did we forget how UCLA won every basketball champion for like a decade straight?
What did they expect. The only reasons a lot of these sports exist at colleges is because the money brought in from football pays for their expenses and allows them to exist. Sit down and shut up. Just be grateful you are allowed to get a free college education for playing your little sport.
If you run track, play tennis, wrestle… those sports don’t make the school money those sports lose the school money so. Obviously they aren’t getting paid what basketball and football are getting paid college football is a billion dollar industry the players don’t deserve a cut of the money considering they are who the public pays to see? If UA-cam wasn’t so sensitive I’d word this a bit more aggressively because this is ridiculous. It seems like an extension to the silly argument of “why do athletes get full scholarships with average grade mean while the nerd has to jump through hoops” well it’s the same answer… because the school is losing money on you meanwhile the athlete brings the school money and secures the schools future.
I'm perfectly fine with athletes putting their faces on t-shirts, but paying college students for an extracurricular (that yes, does produce revenue for the school) is very concerning.
The whole point of NIL was to let college athletes make money off the revenue and recognition they have. Not to give every college athlete money. The reality is most athletic departments and sports run in the red, football and basketball (at some schools) are the reason that non-revenue sports exist at many schools.
Only two sports make money on college sports... Football and men's basketball.... Do people understand how much it costs to put a good roster together? Non-revenue sports don't bring in anything. They cost money. Nil money should not be distributed equally. The vast majority should go to the sports that pay the bills.
Its gone from your favorite team to your favorite player. Whenever I watch sports I don't even pay attention to the players I put my focus on the teams success. This new generation is damn spoiled. It's gone from game and tradition to business, fame, and money
I'm from a family of D1 athletes. CFB, MBB, Baseball, gymnastics and WBB are the only sports that consistently turn a profit. This "equity in nil" idea is ignorant. Up til NIL, CFB and MBB were essentially indentured servitude. Those 2 sports represent, on average, 60-80% of a D1 college's ENTIRE revenue stream. Thats why the money goes there. For decades, two sports have been printing presses. Free money. Now,you have to pay your employees. Thats what they are. If they do something that directly creates an income for you and you dont pay them, but you force them to continue doing it at risk of loss if they don't, it's called SLAVERY. It was NIL or 20 years of aggregating class actions where the NCAA loses 8/10 cases. That's the part that you're not being told. Every major college in America is broke by 2040 without NIL. The lawsuits would've ended a lot of schools.
I mean, NIL money hasn't changed the fact that money is being paid to athletes, nor has it changed that only the same few big schools dominated the sports. Colleges have ALWAYS used money to entice athletes. There have ALWAYS been less popular schools that have had to claw their way up to win and thus get more funding and donors and student interest. The big thing that NIL money changes in my opinion is going to be the donors. Donors donate to their alma mater because it meant something. If students and athletes are ONLY coming for the money, and college sports simply turns into a semi-pro league, the loyalty won't be there, and the donors will evaporate in time.
There have always been have and have not sports at the college level. Yes, NIL has added a new wrinkle, but the basic imbalance has always been there. Football and basketball pay for all the other sports to exist, so of course they are going to get the lions share of the money.
Free market capitalism. You get paid based off what your value is in the economy. Get over it! Someone has to be janitor , bus driver , barber(which I am) and someone gets to be CEO. If you don’t like it go do something people are willing to spend big money on. Grow up , stop whining and deal with it
Oh gee, the same small group of teams will only be in convention for a national title every year?! Like it's been forever?! Actually, in football (and basketball to an extent) there is going to be more talent dispersal... teams can only afford to pay so many premier talents, so there won't be quite as much loading up on talent as in the past. Even bluebloods don't have unlimited budgets.
A story that says that nothing has changed. Bigger programs always have more money, better facilities, better chances, etc. and women's sports have always been subsidized by men's sports.
They need to change the structure of college sports so that 1 vs 2 plays each other every week and it’s like boxing who can hold on to the number one ranking the longest.
it's capitalism. so what is the problem? i'm not going to tell anyone they shouldn't make as much money as they can legally and morally by doing what they want to do.
I find it very creepy that the US mixes sports with higher education so much so. It doesn't even "work". The starting 5 in the NBA is 100% foreign born. None of them played college basketball. They're all pro at 18. Same with baseball, same with soccer, same with ice hockey. Another fact is, for state universities, some of that money comes from student fees... and is not going towards educational purposes. I don't care how good my university's football team is, I want people to attain knowledge, be smarter. Who cares that the football team is good. Takes 5 hours to play 1 game anyway.
If you don’t believe college athletes were getting this before just on the down low you didn’t play college sports or you were blind. By this I mean big names have always been paid to play or given gifts cars etc it’s just been on the down low. Top players have even been giving grades it’s all been apart of college sports forever. That’s why big money schools have always dominated. Now college athletes get to make money legally which is great because playing in college could end their careers with an injury or set them back huge in medical bills.
There's always been 2 types of college sports. Revenue-generating and non revenue-generating
facts this is nothing new. it’s stupid
That was pretty much my first thought.
Agreed. There was more parity in college football bc of NIL.
Yes, but typically, the NCAA would cheat the students out of money and they would make sure that revenue generating sports would help finance non-revenue generating sports. It’s just common that every sport can’t become popular and make money, but we should have athletes competing in all types of sports.
She makes 1/3 of a football player! Thats way more than I expected. I was thinking it would be 1/50th.
I heard 5 seconds of her voice and I know she's complaining about being underpaid
@@theXmiester I didn't hear her complain about making what she made.
$9000 by 30000 student athletes is only $270 million.
The total settlement is around $3 billion for the ACC, SEC, Big 10, and Big 12.
That comes out to $46875000 per university so it is plenty of money for volleyball, gymnastics, etc.
If the Oklahoma Sooners gymnastics team has only a dozen, and with only $9000 salary, and so that comes out to only $108000.
and shaming others that don't look like her getting there just do
@@ploglet *woosh*
The interviewer gripping the ball with one hand like no one was going to notice.
A lot times when they hire a reporter for a certain segment it's because the person had a background in that segment. The guy might've been a former professional.
He's about to dunk that just to let u know he could earn that NIL money too.
Casually
The silent stunt. 😂😂😂
Jordan hands
I ran track and cross country in college. There is no way track and xc draws the same crowds as football and basketball lolol. The money follows the sports with more crowds/media draw. Its not unfair it's just how it is and how it's always been
Exactly! We used to ride in the back of the coach’s station wagon to the meets.
Yeah, man. I ran track in college, was the team’s top long jumper and #2 sprinter, and almost had to take a year off because my mother was short on her financial aid contribution. Desperate, I asked the Head Coach if there was any financial means by which the team could help. Nope. Btw, I also worked and stayed on top my student contributions, but the IVY’s didn’t have athletic scholarships at that time.
Just call football semi pro ball at that point. Sorry not sorry but they shouldn't exist anymore and be an actual sports league at that point and not associated with any academic rigor whatsoever.
Me, too (just x country). My parents didn't even come to most of my meets. The meets I've run in had more coaches and runners than spectators.
@@chesterwilberforce9832 Same here! My parents never saw me compete, and I was a 5 time New England Champ, competed at Harvard, and even traveled to Ireland and England to compete. I'm a lot older now, and they've passed away, but yeah, I hear you. Be well.
It isn’t college sports anymore. It’s professional sports now. They are being paid to play.
So know it’s even the university’s that are racking in millions now have to share with the kids they make it off the backs of. This is capitalism. Funny how this works and the universities act like they are victims
Yeah but not everyone is getting paid. Just top names
@@whoishim2998 people that bring value to their school, financial value. Do you have a job? You get paid an amount, others get an amount. Someone probably cleans toilets where you work others run the joint. It’s called capitalism.
It’s almost always been this way. To idealize “college sports” as anything special is nonsense. Even in my competitive club sport days, I felt it was a part time job I had for ~7months of the school year.
There have always been “haves & have-nots” in college sports. This trend of NIL money follows the revenue generating sports nationally and locally. It’s the market acknowledging what the work is trying to pretend isn’t true.
There are no more college sports. It is ruined, I want NFL on Saturdays in the Fall now. There is no reason to help out college football anymore. Want to pretend to be pro, compete like a pro.
@@peterdangelo5882 The good players have always been getting paid.
yeah, but further concentration of wealth, talent and resources definitely makes college sports more lame, not less
Exactly my thoughts! This is business as usual
@@peterdangelo5882 so we instead just exploit their labor and have TV and universities make millions while the athletes make nothing? This is way better, pay the kids, let them get sponsorships.
What was happening before where “programs”, coaches and educational institutes were getting rich off starving athletes was also NOT the right answer ….
That's true. There should be a minimum salary for all athletes
No athletes have been "starving" with free education, free room and board, free utilities, cable, etc., free food, free health care, etc.
Either way, if society weren't so obsessed with athletes and entertainers, maybe society would stop complaining about the rest of society's issues since most can't afford the daily things they need to live. But they'll surely spend their last dollar to watch a game. Society's priorities are what is messed up.
That is exactly what the NIL was intended to do. To compensate players whenever they appeared in an ad or a video game. The other problem was the NCAA allowing coaches to dump schools even after signing contract extensions.
Play or don't - there is no right to college sports. Wait and watch, the same money teams will take over and then it will not be worth watching. I love how college bowls went from awesome to lucky if anyone bothers to play. Just end them. Lets not pretend this is college anymore - money turns everything to crap. But hey, kids can get paid. Great cause that is all that matters anymore.
@HayyywardNo one cared about free education, free room and board and all that other BS was a given since the athlete is coming to your school to help make the school money by putting their body on the line. And the free healthcare was only in effect if the kid got hurt playing the sport they were sent there to play in the first place.
So stop with the BS. The schools and coaches were making millions of the sweat, blood, and tears of these kids and most of them couldn't even buy a sandwich after the school restaurants closed in the evening.
Football and men's basketball have always been "have" sports in college athletics.
And not just college level, but extends down to the high school level.
But they bring in the money for the other sports at the school
@@andrejohnson1703
That may come to an end.
Someone will go to court to oppose sharing money with sports that don't generate money.
Why should non-revenue sports be paying players ?
Players should be paid if they generate money.
The revenue generating athletes are being shortchanged.
The money they generate is being given away others.
They are why nil even exists. Because this was certainly going on behind the scenes but now it’s legal.
SMU football back in the 80s was 40 years ahead of the times.
@ZiggyBoon Facts. The running joke then was that when Eric Dickerson turned pro, he took a pay cut...
@@KidsLearnHTML I forgot that joke. That is funny….and probably true.
😂
sec has been doing this for almost 3 decades...
Pitt was there a well. Just didn’t take the hit SMU did lol. I’ve told my friends to be on alert for SMU football because of NIL. That fanbase doesn’t mess around
""NIL money" now is not really Name Image and Likeness for the most part. NIL is now mostly just Recruitment Money and paying players to come to play for a certain University
So the program can win get recognition get more fans in the stadium and bring the school money.
Idk the biggest names are on the commercials with sponsorships like Quinn Ewers on the Dr Pepper commercials. Then think of Kaitlin Clark or Livvy Dunn outside of football and men’s basketball essentially as celebrities/influencers.
it's been haves and have nots since college sports inception the only difference is its out in the open
The programs that make money, men's football and basketball, used to subsidie the other sports. Not anymore. The big loser in the NIL era is women's sports.
As South Park put it “student athletes”
“Right right….stoo-dent atho-leetes”…😂
The problem is non coach is ever fired for not graduating enough players. NO ONE cares if these kids EVER graduate yet they are expected to spend 40 hours a week training to perform for the school travel for the school miss classes for the school.
I bet NIL money is a drop in the bucket compared to what a D1 football program generate
Student is just put in to make it sound good.
Long overdue, honestly. Football and big-time basketball financed these sports for decades. In all that time, colleges never figured out a more effective way to fund those other sports. That's a failure on the colleges, not on NIL.
Good luck on getting your high school senior into a major university in your home state. There's 5 D1 universities in my home state. We prepaid college, and none of them accepted our kid. 4.0 GPA and great test scores to boot. I honestly feel that they weren't interested since they can't make money off the kid that lives down the street whose parents locked in 2010 rates. But every out of state university that was applied for, my kid got into.
These "institutions" know that they can get 5 to 6 times the tuition and housing money from out of state kids. That's what is paying the NIL. It's a racket. There's a good 30 to 35k difference between in state vs out of state. Scholarships wrap up the difference, but damn...
Honestly, basically only football. You'd be shocked at how many basketball teams do not profit.
@@piedpiper8355Wrong. We’re did you get your information donors give the money
@theraplawyer Sure, donors give money. Have for years. How do you think Oregon can afford to have had newly designed uniforms every game in the past decade or so?
I said what I said from experience.
For example-
Ohio State has 67,000 enrollment. 70% enrolled are in state. There's a $27,000 difference in tuition. Alone, the out of state students bank the university $542 million.
No, the problem is pretending that basketball and football at college is not professional. If we were to stop treating college sports like the pros without the legal and cultural acknowledgement of their professionalism we could keep having nice things.
NCAA missed the mark by not regulating the NIL. It should have been a percentage of merchandise sales, ticket sales and tv contracts. Then any endorsement money that the kids make is 100% theirs. With the way it is now the schools with the most money just buy the most talented kids.
Its always been that way, the blue bloods of each sport became blue bloods for a reason. All NIL did was take some control away from coaches. A kid who feels they should be playing doesn't have to sit at the end of the bench because the coach has a favorite
They didn’t want to share! So they opened it up to the free market. I love it!
No they could have said 12 years ago everyone in D1 gets a stipend (the football/basketball players weren't asking for much, even 30K, increased for inflation would have been fine) and if you can't afford a stipend then f-off to the lower divisions. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE'D HAVE TO PAY WOMEN'S ROWING TEAM 1/10000th of what the offensive coordinator makes.
Anyway it was all a BS excuse. There is nowhere in title IX by-laws that the women's rowing team would have to been paid, just vague statements about equal funding w/o saying what kind of funding that entails (for example it could be just be adding a few more women's scholarship sports). I'm sure an argument could be made by a very good lawyer that having a scholarship in a money pit of a sport is a stipend in itself. If you take a case like this to SCOTUS and who knows what our quorum of old as dirt wizards might do. Hell they might eliminate Title IX all together.
@@MikeJeaspot on, the coaches don’t have all the power anymore and they’re not happy about it.
It called the free market people get paid for being good at things people care about.
Meanwhile tuition skyrockets thus burying students under a mountain of debt. No one can afford to go to college and tuition and alumni programs are funding this madness! Sports benefits no one but pads the pockets of a few. They might be good entertainment for a couple of hours and a healthy lifestyle for the dozen athletes that get onto the court, but this harms society at large.
Lol how exactly does it harm society at large?
I agree
That's why people should reinforce to non-athlete student teenagers that college can wait. Their lack of attendance is the only thing that is going to reign in this corpora-socialist madness.
I fully agree
@@Frank-ii2ug Are you actually curious or is this rhetorical?
When universities prioritize sports like football and basketball over academics like physics, biology, chemistry (insert things that matter here), tuition rises to fund athletic programs, diverting resources away from education and saddling students with unnecessary debt. This benefits only a few select, coaches/athletes along with people who are wealthy and can send their kids off. Focusing on only sports undermines the true purpose of universities (which is to educate and prepare an informed, skilled society). The problem isn't that SpOrTs eXiSts....they just tend to be over exaggerated in value to what truly matters: Equipping future generations with better tools to build a better future. Dismissing these concerns by downplaying it with a disingenuous question like yours only highlights what happens when you are not educated enough to see or plan for long-term and shows that you prefer to only appear smart by making "gotcha" questions for your short-sighted performative response to a legit concern which is EXACTLY why this news is showing this segment.
TLDR; Putting Sports over Education is a really REALLY bad idea. You think rockets just put themselves there in the sky? No, it takes hard work, studying and understanding and seeing which way the team can run the ball fastest to the other side of the endzone doesn't really fly people to the moon or achieve anything.
sounds like the lesser know D1 schools will become what the JUCO circuit was before NIL.
Exactly. They are just farm teams now.
People living in a capitalistic society complaining about peak capitalism. 😂
We can't have both the NIL and the crazy transfer portal rules. Lets pay these kids, but have them stay in place for a set period of time.
There needs to be collective bargaining and some kind of salary cap like structure same as the NFL does.
As long as the same rules apply to coaches and administrators. Which was part of the problem in the first place-they didn’t. Now they’re taking their own medicine
Free market!
@@ashleighelizabeth5916So you want socialism?
That all depends on what you think college sports are for.
If you think they exist to entertain the masses, then yes we should limit limits kids abilities to sell their name and play with who they want.
If you think college athletics exists as a club for participants to come together, grow, and build life experience through competition; we should not be adding limits to how and who kids spend their time playing with.
NIL has ruined college sports just what it was intended to do.
My son runs for D1 track squad, he makes 6k in NIL through the schools fund. Wont be able to retire on it, but it helps pay his rent.
So where was the have not reporting when the bigger institutions had all the money and 5 star athletes?
It's past time to stop calling them "student athletes." They are free agents.
Come on, nobody is even pretending that they are actually students anymore.
To think the NCAA created this environment themselves whereas they could've avoided it if they had given student-athletes some working wage especially for profiting from an amateur. There was a small step to be made but the NCAA went all in and called bluff and lost.
I get it, but tuition is still something the athletes all have gotten historically. If you added on a set “working wage” then people would clamor for that wage to be equal whether it’s a star quarterback or a pole vaulter. Any differences between schools, sports, or genders would be deemed “unfair” by many (Title IX, etc.) It’s nuts but you know that would happen.
There’s a difference between NIL and a Collective for the top universities. They shouldn’t be intertwined, collective simply just pays athletes. It’s a collective of alums and others with interest in the university, essentially pooling money together to bring in top talent to their athletic programs.
We should remove all sports above the intramural and club sport level from public post-secondary education. Sports industry has no place on campus.
It's time to get rid of NCAA sports at colleges. It's totally stupid to begin with and continues to get even more ridiculous. These are supposed to be academic institutions and instead we are spending billions so "students" can throw balls and run.
Besides all of their scholarship money should go to lesser athletes and academic students that are giving value to society. Sports are not needed for society.
Maybe you didn't realize this, but college athletics also help schools to pay for non-athletic scholarships, buildings and other university costs. 100% does not stay in athletic departments. This is profit for schools that know what they are doing. Without major college sports, many colleges and universities would be hurting financially. So throwing a ball and running is a very good thing, as it relates to academics.
I have a revolutionary idea. Remove sports from colleges. They exist to educate students and not run semipro sports leagues. College sports are out of control and we now have "bread and circuses" in college. They have a farm league for baseball. They can have a farm league for basketball and football as well...and this is coming from someone who played three sports (football, basketball and track) in high school.
Money changes everything
It answereth everything as well
Always
Ladies basketball is doing just fine. They are making more than the pros. The "other" sports have always be supported by Football, Basketball, and depending on regions, Soccer, Gymnastics, Swimming, Tennis, Skiing, Field & Tracking. The dollars have always correlated to eyeballs and moving merch.
These student athletes don’t deserve any payment. They already get scholarships.
Newsflash: there were already “have not” sports. Because they have not any fans. So they have not any ticket sales or revenue
They should make schools that are like colleges only focused on learning instead of sports.
The ones being robbed are the students. Everyone in college sports making big money while the students pay outrageous tuition rates. 90% of athletic profits should go directly to the school for paying faculty and reducing tuition costs.
Love how the reporter palms the basketball. He's so proud! LOL
He probably put glue in his hand
NIL has completely ruined college sports. It’s no fun to root for your favorite college team. Next year, players won’t be there. Money always ruins good things.
Skilled people don’t want to do $hit for free. I can’t blame them, but, apparently, you can.
I still follow college football and basketball, but college football has gone from my clear number 1 interest as recently as 5 years ago to a distant second to the NFL over the last 5 years. Part of the fun of being a diehard college fan was following recruiting in the offseason and then having players in the program for 4 or 5 years and watch them develop as players. Now like probably 8 or 9 of the starters next year for my favorite college team (University of Maryland where I went) will be transfer portal guys I haven't heard of.
College sports are officially dead. NIL needs capped. Sports betting being legalized across the nation & it promoted has negatively impacted the sports too.
Please don't make an argument for paying student athletes in non revenue generating sports you will make things absolutely worse
She is a random long jumper and makes 1/3 of a football player that have billion dollar broadcast deals? That seems really good
R.I.P. College athletics
Nah. The ncaa was taking advantage of these kids
@@Matt-wo9ws yes and no. 99.9% of college athletes will never go pro, ever. they were getting a free education at a time when higher education costs in the US are the highest ever.
still, 99.9% of athletes will never go pro, but now they're making $ (and sure, most aren't making big money) but now they're all chasing money and education isn't even a thought. you have people transferring 5x in 5 years. its a joke.
Who didn’t see this coming the minute they started talking about paying college players???
No kidding, duh
Television and advertising killed the traditional college sport. NIL isn't the root cause. These colleges, for many reasons, have turned into corporations and the bottom line. Simply look at tuition and government guaranteed loans that can't be written off with bankruptcy. This was inevitable.
Players earning NIL money aren’t taking away from others.
All players are free to get their contracts.
And it’s the schools job to make sure those endorsement deals come through.
NCAA sports has always been a story of have and have nots. Before NIL Men’s soccer had 9 full ride scholarships available ; women’s had 13. Football had 85 before NIL.
I think NIL has finally balanced the power between athletes and schools / conferences.
NCAA schools and conferences had been making all of the money based on skilled “student athletes”…
99% of NCAA football and basketball players won’t turn pro so why not give them a fair share of the revenue?
This was totally ignored in the segment 😢
In the "old'" days -- those have-not sports were necessary to boost the athletics' department overall GPA at football/basketball powerhouses. Now, even remotely claiming that the classroom means something is gone. And just wait until the upcoming changes to March Madness occurs -- whether it's expanding the field in its current form or having the major conferences operate the tourney; the stories of major upsets and cool runs by a mid-major will be over....forever.
My biggest fear with NIL money is that some of the donors will no longer donate money to build new facilities on college campuses around the nation. Instead those donors are giving money to a schools NIL collective which goes directly to the players pocket. There is only so much money in the market to be donated to colleges, that money is just going to be allocated differently.
So what! The number one thing americans love but america hates is when a regular person can take advantage of a broken system, though all of our poloticians do it day in and 34 terms out
That coach has been at Oakland for 40 years and has had one good tournament run. NIL is not going to change the routine that he has to recruit players that the more prestigious schools pass on.
Before NIL, the two players that left after last year's run were susceptible to leaving anyway for the same reasons. They were players that the school that offered them $500,000 (just accepting that since the coach brought it up) didn't know about until seeing them in the tournament.
The only difference being that before NIL, there was booster money, other illegal money or items, and the allure of the brand of the school.
With NIL he's still recruiting players that big money schools don't want or know nothing about.
And NIL is more about the brand appeal of the athlete than the brand of the school.
Sure, every football player on Texas' team might get more of a base amount there because Texas makes the most from merchandising than any other school.
But the QB is going to make more than anybody on the team and athletes make most of their NIL based on their own brand appeal.
That's why at one point the highest paid athlete in NIL money was an LSU gymnast. And it wasn't because she was the best in the country, a champion, or from gymnastics being a major sport.
It was because she was a cute blonde white girl that had a major social media following.
I had thought it just allowed players corporate deals/sales, and NOT playtime. The first is had, the second is unacceptable.
They are "student athletes", student comes first. Nothing above a scholarship for expenses.
what did you think was going to happen.
Competition always create have nots money makes it way more contrived
You reap what you sow. NCAA had been putting these athletes on a pedestal and making money off their hard work for decades without any of the athletes seeing a single dime. Athletes are now getting what’s theirs and not letting the NCAA take advantage of them. If you don’t agree, go ask Johnny Manziel or Tim Tebow how much they made from their time playing college football.
Oh bo hoo, all this time colleges would get players for basically free, so they could pay coaches the same money that pro coaches make. It’s only right that the players that make incredible sacrifices to play a sport at that level make money when someone buys their jersey. In the past the NCAA made all that money. Small schools will stay small and big schools will stay big, nothing changes, except the players are compensated an amount that whatever sponsors thinks they are worth.
Probably the dumbest report ever. Everyone has known this for decades. NIL isn't at fault
There always have been the haves vs the have nots, based on schools athletes budgets, facilities, and support personnel. NIL just widens the gap. What I can see happen is a sub division in basketball and maybe other sports being created where NIL is not allowed vs. being allowed. There will be no basis for a lawsuit, as the non NIL league can use the fact that students willing decide to go to a schools that has rules against NIL or willing does not do NIL. Some schools have even started to end NIL Collectives, as they realize that are fighting an up hill battle trying to keep up with the bigger programs.
Damn right
Let’s create new divisions based on how much NIL money each program’s players receive. Maybe D1 = schools spending NIL money and D2/D3 do not. It’s close to that now.
Coaches talk money before they agree to take a job why shouldn’t it be different for players. It’s a billion dollar sport. About time kids got a cut
Let’s be honest. And I’m not saying it shouldn’t be this way.
These are basically professional sports housed in collegiate academic institutions.
With that kind of money are these ‘students’ going to
Go to class
Study for exams
Expend time, energy, resources on acquiring knowledge
This has morphed into a strange beast where fans are seeking entertainment by paying handsomely from very young people.
… high school next.
it's always been this way. this is the stupidest most ridiculous criticism of NIL
The money is probably continually less evenly spread out amongst those two men’s sports. How many in football are just the star quarterbacks?
When have there not been “have-not” sports? Anyone care about tuition-paying students? Tuitions paying students are getting ripped off, not cross country runners on scholarships.
The gap between the two is growing exponentially in the age of unregulated NIL and unregulated transfer portal. It's the wild west right now.
What an awful piece: nothing more than a cursory brushing of the sea change issue in college sports. No one actually said anything. “Haves” and “have nots” have been an issue long before NIL. There whole point of NIL is that each athlete gets paid what they specifically can get. The story mentions that the female track athlete gets a third of what some male athlete gets, without any discussion of how much that might be or the fact that everyone was precluded from taking any money, even endorsement money, under the previous system. This is a horribly apt example of the direction modern media is headed. No better than clickbait. Absent the technical production value, this is something a junior high school kid could put together for a school project or just out of boredom.
Fan interest and TV viewers determine the worth of NIL deals.......There are no have and have not's, there are simply the "seen" and the "unseen".......it's a fair system
Did you just compare women’s track and field to college football in NIL offerings?
Once you get money into the equation,the market rules, and doesn’t care about equity. Sports that generate big revenue will get the money, and sports no one will buy tickets for won’t.
Paying college athletes has to be one of the DUMBEST things I’ve ever heard of. Get a life, people. Work on your own goals instead of cheering on children getting paid to play college sports. College should be for education. If people want to get paid to play, form a junior league before going professional. Tuition money pushed towards an athlete for scholarships should be pushed to legitimate students, not athletes. This is a circus, and people are dumb enough to buy into it.
College sports has ALWAYS been haves and have nots this is such a non story. In fact there’s more clarity and upsets now than ever. Did we forget how UCLA won every basketball champion for like a decade straight?
What did they expect. The only reasons a lot of these sports exist at colleges is because the money brought in from football pays for their expenses and allows them to exist. Sit down and shut up. Just be grateful you are allowed to get a free college education for playing your little sport.
The men’s FB/BB players bring in the most money. Of course they get paid the most.
It’s basic business economics.
Billionaires buying elections and now they are buying college sports programs. Nothing will go wrong, right guys. Shakes head, walks away.
This is not new. It's simply an exaggeration of the existing system.
Some sports make money and some don't.
Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing people's entertainment.
If you run track, play tennis, wrestle… those sports don’t make the school money those sports lose the school money so. Obviously they aren’t getting paid what basketball and football are getting paid college football is a billion dollar industry the players don’t deserve a cut of the money considering they are who the public pays to see? If UA-cam wasn’t so sensitive I’d word this a bit more aggressively because this is ridiculous. It seems like an extension to the silly argument of “why do athletes get full scholarships with average grade mean while the nerd has to jump through hoops” well it’s the same answer… because the school is losing money on you meanwhile the athlete brings the school money and secures the schools future.
I'm perfectly fine with athletes putting their faces on t-shirts, but paying college students for an extracurricular (that yes, does produce revenue for the school) is very concerning.
The whole point of NIL was to let college athletes make money off the revenue and recognition they have. Not to give every college athlete money.
The reality is most athletic departments and sports run in the red, football and basketball (at some schools) are the reason that non-revenue sports exist at many schools.
Only two sports make money on college sports... Football and men's basketball.... Do people understand how much it costs to put a good roster together? Non-revenue sports don't bring in anything. They cost money. Nil money should not be distributed equally. The vast majority should go to the sports that pay the bills.
Its gone from your favorite team to your favorite player. Whenever I watch sports I don't even pay attention to the players I put my focus on the teams success. This new generation is damn spoiled. It's gone from game and tradition to business, fame, and money
I'm from a family of D1 athletes.
CFB, MBB, Baseball, gymnastics and WBB are the only sports that consistently turn a profit.
This "equity in nil" idea is ignorant. Up til NIL, CFB and MBB were essentially indentured servitude. Those 2 sports represent, on average, 60-80% of a D1 college's ENTIRE revenue stream. Thats why the money goes there.
For decades, two sports have been printing presses. Free money. Now,you have to pay your employees. Thats what they are. If they do something that directly creates an income for you and you dont pay them, but you force them to continue doing it at risk of loss if they don't, it's called SLAVERY.
It was NIL or 20 years of aggregating class actions where the NCAA loses 8/10 cases. That's the part that you're not being told. Every major college in America is broke by 2040 without NIL. The lawsuits would've ended a lot of schools.
Players are getting a share now. That money was always coming in, just going to other people.
I mean, NIL money hasn't changed the fact that money is being paid to athletes, nor has it changed that only the same few big schools dominated the sports. Colleges have ALWAYS used money to entice athletes. There have ALWAYS been less popular schools that have had to claw their way up to win and thus get more funding and donors and student interest.
The big thing that NIL money changes in my opinion is going to be the donors. Donors donate to their alma mater because it meant something. If students and athletes are ONLY coming for the money, and college sports simply turns into a semi-pro league, the loyalty won't be there, and the donors will evaporate in time.
There have always been have and have not sports at the college level. Yes, NIL has added a new wrinkle, but the basic imbalance has always been there. Football and basketball pay for all the other sports to exist, so of course they are going to get the lions share of the money.
Wasn't every college athlete a "have-not" before the implementation of these rules
Free market capitalism. You get paid based off what your value is in the economy. Get over it! Someone has to be janitor , bus driver , barber(which I am) and someone gets to be CEO. If you don’t like it go do something people are willing to spend big money on. Grow up , stop whining and deal with it
I think they will need to introduce spending caps. The spending will just go up and up otherwise.
Oh gee, the same small group of teams will only be in convention for a national title every year?! Like it's been forever?!
Actually, in football (and basketball to an extent) there is going to be more talent dispersal... teams can only afford to pay so many premier talents, so there won't be quite as much loading up on talent as in the past. Even bluebloods don't have unlimited budgets.
Schools and coaches were greedy for too long. All
They had to do was share the TV revenue money
A story that says that nothing has changed. Bigger programs always have more money, better facilities, better chances, etc. and women's sports have always been subsidized by men's sports.
They need to change the structure of college sports so that 1 vs 2 plays each other every week and it’s like boxing who can hold on to the number one ranking the longest.
The coach act like money wasn't the first thing he asked before talking the job. So what is the difference him and his recruits?
Rather than spending Billions on A few Students. Lower the tuition costs.
You should go to college for an education.
“You’re going to see the same teams year after year in the playoffs….” Spot on. It’s a business and I’m done with it.
Why I prefer pro sports leagues where everyone plays with the same rules and salary cap
it's capitalism. so what is the problem? i'm not going to tell anyone they shouldn't make as much money as they can legally and morally by doing what they want to do.
I find it very creepy that the US mixes sports with higher education so much so. It doesn't even "work". The starting 5 in the NBA is 100% foreign born. None of them played college basketball. They're all pro at 18. Same with baseball, same with soccer, same with ice hockey.
Another fact is, for state universities, some of that money comes from student fees... and is not going towards educational purposes. I don't care how good my university's football team is, I want people to attain knowledge, be smarter. Who cares that the football team is good. Takes 5 hours to play 1 game anyway.
Students athletes need to learn to market themselves. It’s a business. All they can get I am happy for them.
I hate the NIL. What is wrong with sports in America!
There have always been have and have nots. The NCAA isnt running the plantation anymore
If you don’t believe college athletes were getting this before just on the down low you didn’t play college sports or you were blind. By this I mean big names have always been paid to play or given gifts cars etc it’s just been on the down low. Top players have even been giving grades it’s all been apart of college sports forever. That’s why big money schools have always dominated. Now college athletes get to make money legally which is great because playing in college could end their careers with an injury or set them back huge in medical bills.
Sad truth is no one but fhe family of athletes cares about sports that don't earn a spot in market share