NCAA Announces Support of NIL for College Athletes
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AFAcademyHawk
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So long, Twitter ban ...
kicker22
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My opinion bring back the NCAA's games or no bueno on collecting a check while in school.
ssckelley
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That struck me as odd as well. You know damn well schools will be using this as a recruiting tool. They have no way to enforce it.
Northside Hawk
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The days of the all powerful untouchable coaching czar (Boeheim, Izzo, Coach K) staying thirty or forty years and becoming emperors will be over soon.
This will be a huge victory for the players. And perhaps it will keep the illegal contributions from boosters, agents, etc form bubbling under the surface of college sports. And certain athletes will no longer have to ",come here to play school".
This will be a huge victory for the players. And perhaps it will keep the illegal contributions from boosters, agents, etc form bubbling under the surface of college sports. And certain athletes will no longer have to ",come here to play school".
kicker22
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Interesting timing to announce this. I find it ironic that there's no inclination at this point as to when sports will be able to resume or if they'll even be able to play football in the fall. Universities as well as the NCAA would take another huge hit if there's no football season, so I'm very surprised that they'd even consider addressing this now with so much up in the air.
homes
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I think we are learning more about the minimal impact of this virus on young people, particularly healthy people. As the weeks go by, I am more confident there will be football this fall. How they'll handle fan attendance will need to be figured out.
I'm not a fan of this change, for numerous reasons. But perhaps one positive will be the dialing back of the insane facilities/building spree universities have been on. Beyond scholarships, facilities have been the prime focus of recruiting efforts for the major sports. Now for the top recruits facilities will take a back seat to "how much money can I personally make on NIL opportunities?"
kicker22
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I totally agree. Fan attendance is going to be the biggest question mark. How do you social distance and what measures can you put in place to minimize the risk of an unknown carrier potentially exposing the virus to other individuals he comes in contact with before they are even tested? Do you test at the stadium gates or would you need to test at some other sort of access point in an attempt to minimize the risk before people are shoulder to shoulder in the tailgating lots or as they're walking to the stadium or getting in line to be tested.
I think there's definitely going to a learning curve as it's going to be a form of crowd control that's never been tested.
okeefe4prez
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Are there any caps on the number of walk ons? I am conceptually fine with the notion of what they want to do, but if there isn't a cap on walk ons, this could usher in an era much like 60's and 70's where basically only two teams had a chance in the Big Ten and SEC (UM/OSU/Bama/UGA). Maybe the SEC can have a little more parity than it did back then and maybe PSU can compete in the B1G, but if there are no walk on limits, it will be a death sentence for programs like Iowa, Wisconsin, MSU, Auburn, etc. that hired good coaches and figured out how to compete in the world with 85 scholarships. Ohio State will be able to take every single kid in Ohio who is a 3 star or above. Georgia and Bama will do the same for all the good kids in the South. Big schools with huge fan bases and deep pocketed boosters will foot the bill for the walk ons to keep them away from other teams.
Good point, OK4P. Another impact with real world implications: I work with a lot of at-risk minority youth, and it's a challenge from elementary school on trying to get across how few athletes are actually offered college scholarships. Now, the scholarship carrot and academics will be a distant 2nd and 3rd after the lure of the 'big NIL bucks' which will go to an even tinier % of athletes.
MoseSchrute
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Nebraska has 150 guys on the roster now, attempting to do what they used to. Maybe that's the limit, I don't know.
I really don't see how they are going to have a season unless the vaccine is out. As soon as restrictions are eased up this virus is going to spread exponentially. I work in the hospital and it is hard enough to test everyone here, and keep it from spreading among employees as well. The virus most certainly hits younger people as well as everyone else, granted they are less at risk for death, but they do die as well. It's not feasible to test everyone that comes through the gate as the tests take time to come back. Abott labs has a test that is limited in availability, but the results come back in 5-10 minutes, but not even very many hospitals have it yet. IF there is a season, fans won't be there, or very limited numbers will be.
kicker22
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Unfortunately I agree completely. Outlook looks grim.
