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Do I really need to donate to softball NIL???
SwoopTheMoon
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Once again another member of the beloved husky family saying they need more money? I don’t know about you guys but I am getting sick and tired of my dawgs with their hands open begging for more cash. I pay more than enough in season tickets and some contributions to Montlake Futures LLC and this is what we get? I mean shoot Haie paid for his wives education at Fosters and we still need funds!!! https://x.com/softykjr/status/1795947990076838070?s=46
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They knew they were fucking over a bunch of Olympics sports when they did this. The softball stadium looks like it seats maybe 100 people.
Meanwhile a 5 ⭐ women's bball player committed to us?
Forget softball and basketball. Neither are real sports, like football.
Its basketball, who cares? It's not real life, like football.
Tf
exactly this. The other sports had to know that pay for play was eventually going to affect them. Once the schools have to make athletes employees and start paying the massive football rosters actual salaries, you might as well kiss the olympic sports goodbye.
Football and basketball will be the only men's sports left. They'll have just enough womens sports to satisfy title 9.
also the players will get far less than they were before.
Well it’ll be a little better for the scrubs but much worse for the big time players.
Wait til as employees they start putting restrictions on other ways of licensing their name lol
Big time players will still get paid
Until 5 to 10 years from now when they are riding the bus as Nfl minor leaguers
So as employees they will need to sign a non compete. Also, a Non Disclosure- you know, a hush money agreement.
Seems like the road leads to athletic departments spinning the football programs off as their own thing not affiliated with the school, and those are your minor league NFL teams. No school requirements for athletes, etc. Would make it much easier to do private funding/venture capital models to grow the football teams. Women's athletics get crushed by making that move, too.
If the revenue programs get spun off into corporations the schools would earn money on licensing their name/brand to fund the Olympic sports, but I doubt it's enough to keep more than a few on each side of men's / women's athletics. Schools with huge endowments would have a large advantage in the Olympic sports.
The reason there is money in college football is because it's college
If it spins off the NFL will just take over Saturday and the minor league will be minor. Like the league that is playing now no one will give a fuck
I really enjoy looking at women soccer players. I hope they don’t get rid of that one… they are cheaper than softball thickies.
Let it happen already. Fuck them kids. I want them to ride the minor league bus.
And same thing with the coaches. Let them coach in the minors.
has anyone done a wellness check on coker? Pretty sure he’s off’d himself over these developments.
Here's thing the thing: If your sports consumes more money than it generates via TV revenue or ticket sales, you don't deserve 1 fucking dime of NIL Collective money.
If Nike wants pay Caitlin Clark or Sabrina Ionescu to put their name on some jerseys to sell, that's great. Everyone else needs to fuck off.
Never really thought of this but it's a good point that the NFL would have interest in college football dying or limiting how many games matter because they can toss more games on Saturdays year round.
Can't wait for the next media/social media hypocrisy to be the people mourning the death of women's sports due to publicly playing the football and basketball players when people who actually like college sports saying for years it's one of the reasons an NIL-like model has never happened.
I think everyone in the AD mostly understands that.
The messaging from the softball team is kind of weird. Couple of people that follow it closely weren't saying the same thing Tarr was. It's almost like a lot/most of them aren't actually going to leave and she's begging to just get them some more money. The issue is that even with a national championship in the sport, the players aren't "big enough" to deserve a bunch of extra money. Only the weird Seattle-types were buying Ruby shirts and I'm surprised that they were willing to even make them. And they aren't on the same level as the 2009 team, not even close.
I love Tarr and her loyalty to the UW but going forward it makes more sense to have a women's hockey team (and men's) than it does a ton of sports currently there. And Hockey doesn't need UW to build a dedicated arena for them even.
I miss the good ole days when college girls raised money by posting pussy pics on the internet
Title 9 isn't going anywhere
It's been good for almost everything but football
And the political suicide to get rid of it is a price no one will pay
I thought it was going to shut down the crazy NIL stuff pretty quickly and I don't know why it hasn't.