Do I really need to donate to softball NIL???
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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.
I know, I know, TITTT -
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.
