Do I really need to donate to softball NIL???
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.
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Meanwhile a 5 ⭐ women's bball player committed to us?
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Forget softball and basketball. Neither are real sports, like football.
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Its basketball, who cares? It's not real life, like football.
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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
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So as employees they will need to sign a non compete. Also, a Non Disclosure- you know, a hush money agreement.
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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.
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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
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I really enjoy looking at women soccer players. I hope they don’t get rid of that one… they are cheaper than softball thickies.
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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.
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has anyone done a wellness check on coker? Pretty sure he’s off’d himself over these developments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I miss the good ole days when college girls raised money by posting pussy pics on the internet
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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
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I thought it was going to shut down the crazy NIL stuff pretty quickly and I don't know why it hasn't.
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I have a dream that someday college athletes will only be compensated based on the "fair market" value of their "name, image or likeness" as it relates to selling and/or promoting a particular company's products or services.
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I've been screaming this for years and didn't seem hard to make happen. It's always been that college football and basketball was generally a really good deal for 99% of the players and it was just the small fraction of stars like Tebow types or for UW a Reggie Williams/Tui/Locker type who wasn't getting paid their value. There's no reason they couldn't do things the way they are for the new NCAA Football game either for the non star players.
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I have a hard time believing very many “student athletes” in non-revenue-making sports will reap big NIL paydays.
Wouldn’t surprise me if most of these softball chicks come back to UW with their tails between their legs.
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Oregon is already being sued over football players getting bigger NIL deals than women
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I think there were a few gymnasts who were making good chunks in NIL but I think they were like Olympic athletes and they were hot. You'd see some rare Caitlin Clarks and some Olympic athlete types and hot women. That's it.
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Would think men’s tennis, golf, baseball, tiddley winks, and the like, would want to get together with the women playing handout sports and join the lawsuits.
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can't wait for the feminists to turn against the Olivia Dunne's and the Cavinder twins and villify them for objectifying other women. It's unfair that the hot girls are getting more money than the non-hots.
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That's the whole fucking point - no one (except in the rarest of circumstances-e.g., Tebow) was being exploited as college athlete. If you are deserving of earning a living by playing sports then you should be able to have a career as professional. College aren't set up to run pro sports team.
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Tittt but most of the media clamor about paying players isn't for the vast majority of players nor do they care about college football.
A scholarship is a sweet deal and now players have luxury hookers and blow centers
If they are good enough to go pro it's great training
Yes there are downsides. Welcome to the real world
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It was always pretty easy to me to get the players properly compensated without having to blow things up as much. As you said, players are open to any kind of actual NIL opportunities in the true nature of what that means. Guys like Tebow, Manziel, then down the line would have made nice chunks. Some other guys make some cash here and there and a guy like that pro skier Colorado returner guy who I think got kicked out of college sports for his sponsorships was fine. For something like the NCAA Football game you just have EA pay a figure and chop it up the way they are now and guys can opt out.
Just have the NCAA review the deals. If fucking Evil Phil wants to bag someone they have to be in an actual Nike endorsement. Same with Amazon for UW, etc. Not that hard.
If someone doesn't want any rules or guardrails I don't think there are any rules against playing in the CFL or whatever Arena League/XFL of the moment and asking for as much money as they'll give. But also overall there's very few well paying jobs, especially right when you start which aren't going to expect you to go to school AND PAY to go to school.
The media people and the political people who clamored about that shit for the most part never cared about college sports, just saw it as a flavor of the moment, never looked into it beyond what they were fed by their bubbles, and moved onto something else.
