Could NIL actually foster more stability than what the NCAA ever provided?

NorthKCHawk said:
It also has nothing to do with you. Why is your position and opinion any holier than fucking thou than mine, Fry? I have just as much right to have an opinion about college football as any other fan.

My opinions are clears. So are yours. Mine just make more sense. Move along.
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The market will take care of things. The Fed printed so much money that Bitcoin briefly had a "market cap" of over a trillion dollars. People paying a million bucks to a true freshman will get burned more often than not and the desire to light money on fire will wane, particularly as deflation or disinflation starts setting in and asset values come back to Earth.

You know good and damned well that the NCAA can't do shit about this, the minute they try to impose a cap they'll get sued for a Sherman Act violation and likely lose. Even if they win, it will be $50 million of defense costs.

We are a couple years removed from having Tristan Wirfs on our line. Wirfs is an all pro caliber tackle, but he was not great as a freshman and we couldn't run the ball at all his first year. If some jackass wants to pay a kid a million bucks sight unseen for maybe a year or year and a half of solid production on the line (anyone really good will be gone by junior year) let him. If I had a million bucks to piss away on college football I'd shuffle $200k of NIL money to 5 guys who excel in the MAC or Sun Belt who have a year or two left. No way I'd gamble on freshmen. Dude could be a head case. Dude could get mono. Dude could get hurt. Dude could be Blake Larsen.
 
NorthKCHawk said:
It also has nothing to do with you. Why is your position and opinion any holier than fucking thou than mine, Fry? I have just as much right to have an opinion about college football as any other fan.

My opinions are clears. So are yours. Mine just make more sense. Move along.
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You’re correct it has nothing to do with me. Which is exactly why I don’t think there should be restrictions on earning money. Because I’m not involved in it. It’s none of my business.

I never said you couldn’t have an opinion. All I said was it shouldn’t be up to you to decide how a college kid makes money, and that it’s dumb to think that you should have a voice in it.
 
The role that Barta and the prominent head coaches need to play is steering their existing boosters away from the UI Athletics donations, and toward donating to the collectives. Iowa doesn't have Phil Knight, but we have a passionate fanbase, some of whom have deep pockets. I don't think we are going to outbid for the 5-stars, but we have never really competed for those guys. What Iowa can do is what they have always done: target the guys who are underrated and good fits, and make sure we treat them better (in terms of $, experience, and development) than anyone else within our tier.

As part of this strategy, I think it is imperative that the offense is not a national laughingstock. Wining is the goal, but our offensive players are also going to be thinking about marketability, and as a skill-position guy you are not very marketable if you aren't touching the ball and scoring TDs.
 
NorthKCHawk said:
Fry has never understood my position. He attributes my position to his wonky understanding of what he believes every older white male wants on this planet. Regurgitating his assumptions is easier than actually reading what I write. And, the irony is that everything he says about me (not be affiliated with these kids, wanting to be entertained, etc.) is just as true of him. He just has a different take.

For the record, I am not against NIL, paying kids and kids making money. Hell, if NIL was what it was supposed to be (paying kids to do commercials and tv spots) I would be all for it. The most talented kids who are household names should be able to make money off of their talent.

What I am not in favor of is collectives and dark money boosters with no regulations. College football is already so top heavy, this is just going to trim the top so there are about 10 great schools and then the rest. Iowa will be the rest. And the rest will not be competitive with the top.

Again, I don't care if kids get paid. In fact, pay them more. I just want it regulated so that all schools are roughly in the same boat so it comes down to coaching, development, talent and who runs the best program. Not who can buy a trophy. This is precisely why the NFL took Sunday from the Church and now baseball is a regional sport watched by geriatrics. The NFL keeps growing its pie because every team, every team, can rebuild and win a title. New England was the joke of the league, then they got Brady and Belichek and built a dynasty. Dallas is the richest franchise in the world, but can't win a playoff game because they are run by an egotistical DB. But if you removed the salary cap, Jones would absolutely buy some rings. College football needs to move closer to the NFL model, not further away.
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Exactly. Hello....FTX!
 
Fryowa said:
Dark money from boosters and no regulation is exactly what we had for decades before NIL. Nothing changed other than it being legal now.
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What I wonder is if this narrows the competitive gap, widens it, or doesn't change it at all. What is your opinion on that?
 
CP87 said:
What I wonder is if this narrows the competitive gap, widens it, or doesn't change it at all. What is your opinion on that?
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I think it widens it across the stratified tiers, but narrows it within the top tier. You only need to pull two guys a year out of Alabama's class to even them out with the local competition, but of course some star like Jeudy or Young ain't gonna go to Iowa, they'll end up at Florida, Georgia or Tennessee. So it should create some parity among the top handful of SEC schools but it will make the gulf between them and everyone else wider.
 
okeefe4prez said:
I think it widens it across the stratified tiers, but narrows it within the top tier. You only need to pull two guys a year out of Alabama's class to even them out with the local competition, but of course some star like Jeudy or Young ain't gonna go to Iowa, they'll end up at Florida, Georgia or Tennessee. So it should create some parity among the top handful of SEC schools but it will make the gulf between them and everyone else wider.
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Fryowa said:
Dark money from boosters and no regulation is exactly what we had for decades before NIL. Nothing changed other than it being legal now.
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Kind of like legalizing pot. It amazes me how many think there were rules enforced much.
 
Fryowa said:
You’re correct it has nothing to do with me. Which is exactly why I don’t think there should be restrictions on earning money. Because I’m not involved in it. It’s none of my business.

I never said you couldn’t have an opinion. All I said was it shouldn’t be up to you to decide how a college kid makes money, and that it’s dumb to think that you should have a voice in it.
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In fairness, neither one of us particularly has a voice in any of this. We are just a couple of assholes on a message board musing about what we think and what we might do if we were in charge, which we never will be.
 
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