evanluck said:The best teams were always paying the players. I think Rod Benson makes an interesting point on the BI Podcast. He basically argues that the Blue Bloods were always paying players. This put programs like Cal who predominantly played by the rules at an incredible disadvantage.Gobears49 said:I think it would be great if NIL did not exist and seemingly is the law of the land, replacing athletic scholarships.Oakbear said:
I'm not a fan of NIL. Wouldn't it be great if it did not exist.
wouldn't it be great if Ego and Greed did not exist .. or for that matter, war/famine/pestilence, etc
Cal fans would not be happy if the amount of NIL for each college team were announced, as clearly Cal total football NIL would be left in the dust by most Southeastern Conference teams and many Big Ten teams.
In general, which teams are going to get the best talented NIL recruits? Most likely the ones with the biggest NIL budgets. I know there are ratings of the best recruits by organizations which rate sports recruits for football and basketball pn the basis of the sports prowess in those two sports which then can be compared to the list of relative school fan footba;; attendance. Normally, one would expect NIL payments by college football teams should correlate to relative team football attendance. For instance, I think Cal's average football attendance is dwarfed by the average attendance by the top teams in the most powerfull football conferences, which should correlate to NIL footbal payments made by those teams.
Would love to have others comment on what I have stated above and whether they feel NIL could be overturned as the law of the land relating to how rmuch football players are paid. I long for the days when college football players were largely compensated by flast per person football schoarships. I assume, but have not read, that athletic schlarships do not exist anymore for football and basketball by the big schools, as otherwise they would be doubly compensated -- NIL payments plus college scholarships.
I should point out that I have not seen any artricle covering this topic, which really is just a summary of how the flat per person payments to college players using the scholarship method compares to NIL payments and how NIL payments to the most popular teams in terms of their relatball footbal attendance changes how much players are paid in relation to football attendance of some other measurement.
I look forward to your comments.
Now that everyone can pay players, the Blue Bloods are now at a relative disadvantage because their locations are further away from population centers and they should from a numbers standpoint have less wealth to draw from. Of course their history of success gives them a couple hand fulls of willing and committed donors but as a place like Cal gets organized and energized the numbers game should work in our favor. We have more wealth in the surrounding areas. It just needs to be energized by people with vision who can back their words up with enough success to get people excited.
We should not be lamenting NIL, we should be celebrating it. It is not the death of college athletics it is an leveling of the playing field which over time should produce more parity and a better chance for most committed programs.
This is what I think but having the money and willingness to give to the Nil are two different things. Part of the problem we have is the draconian policies re free student tickets which does not create future fans. They graduate, are making millions but never went to a football or basketball game so they have no interest.Shockey is right.
Go Bears!