Game Over: NCAA allows athletes to profit from name

[ThreatMatrix]

Slipper slope. You've just opened the flood gates. The NCAA should've focused on policing the rules they had.
Now what they're doing is saying a little grass isn't bad so lets allow heroin. Nothing good will come of this.

 

[OllieGator]

I guess college football as we know and love will be history. Going to turn into a true farm club for the NFL.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

I guess college football as we know and love will be history. Going to turn into a true farm club for the NFL.

And how is it not already that? You even have kids saying "next 3-4 years" in their commitment announcements in high school now. For the best players, it's always been a means to an end. At least the ones who aren't going to make the NFL might have an opportunity to make a little extra cash for their efforts.

 

[OllieGator]

And how is it not already that? You even have kids saying "next 3-4 years" in their commitment announcements in high school now. For the best players, it's always been a means to an end. At least the ones who aren't going to make the NFL might have an opportunity to make a little extra cash for their efforts.

As was stated above, what if you have money funding into boosters that effectively skew the recruiting even more than it is today. You'll have everyone wanting the easy money and the lower schools will have what?

I'm good for the players getting paid but it needs to be a level playing field for all schools and players. Also should be governed but god knows how the NCAA will do that. Allowing one kid to make a fortune while others sit by and get nothing is not going to work out very well.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

And how is it not already that? You even have kids saying "next 3-4 years" in their commitment announcements in high school now. For the best players, it's always been a means to an end. At least the ones who aren't going to make the NFL might have an opportunity to make a little extra cash for their efforts.

Nobody was paying your 2-star ass.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

I'm sure giving teenage kids from the hood 10s (100's?) of thousands of dollars will end well.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Nobody was paying your 2-star ass.

2.5 stars.

 

[oxrageous]

This will lead to nothing good - nothing. I’m almost done with the NFL, college football was all I had left.

 

[UFHealthGator]

And I'm still not sure what was wrong with the old system. Haven't heard a valid explanation for why the free education, room and board, plus exposure to a professional career are simply not enough, or been presented with examples of ones who've been harmed by it.

So you can't think of a single elite athlete in College football that had a career ending injury during college football? Really?

Look I get all the arguments against paying college student athletes. I selfishly would like things to stay the same to enjoy college football. I suspect this will only harm college football. But there are definitely instances where elite college football players lose millions of dollars by not making an NFL roster due to suffering a substantial injury at the college level.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

So you can't think of a single elite athlete in College football that had a career ending injury during college football? Really?

Look I get all the arguments against paying college student athletes. I selfishly would like things to stay the same to enjoy college football. I suspect this will only harm college football. But there are definitely instances where elite college football players lose millions of dollars by not making an NFL roster due to suffering a substantial injury at the college level.

Tyrone Prothro and Marcus Lattimore immediately come to mind.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

So you can't think of a single elite athlete in College football that had a career ending injury during college football? Really?

Look I get all the arguments against paying college student athletes. I selfishly would like things to stay the same to enjoy college football. I suspect this will only harm college football. But there are definitely instances where elite college football players lose millions of dollars by not making an NFL roster due to suffering a substantial injury at the college level.

Life ain't fair.

 

[UFHealthGator]

Life ain't fair.

But it always can get fairer.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

But it always can get fairer.

Or less fairer.

 

[gingerlover]

The only way this doesn’t get out of hand is if the pot is somehow distributed equally. Once agents arrived it’s the Wild West.

Curious to see what programs get cut and how the lower tier sports react to this. Will women’s sports require equal share that football gets?

 

[oxrageous]

The only way this doesn’t get out of hand is if the pot is somehow distributed equally.

Oh it's going to get SERIOUSLY out of hand, and the clowns defending it now are going to look mighty stupid.

 

[SeabeeGator]

Ton of overreaction both ways in this thread. My guess is that it does change CFB but not to some extreme.

And at least we’ll get confirmation that Bama’s been cheating for years - I guarantee the first thing we see is Bama players in a Dodge commercial.

 

[Jack o' Diamonds]

Curious to see what programs get cut and how the lower tier sports react to this. Will women’s sports require equal share that football gets?

An equal share of what?

 

[ThreatMatrix]

The only way this doesn’t get out of hand is if the pot is somehow distributed equally. Once agents arrived it’s the Wild West.

Curious to see what programs get cut and how the lower tier sports react to this. Will women’s sports require equal share that football gets?

Payments go to the individual. There's no sharing.
I (if i were wealthy) and other wealthy doners will form a group. We will offer merchandising contracts to every 5* athlete at the school of our choice. They'll get a $100k contract or whatever the going price ends up being.4*s a little les, etc. We can't "induce" a recruit to sign but it will be pretty easy to know that if you sign with UF you get X and if you sign with Bama you'll get 2X. They'll probaby tier it so that it's based on your recruiting ranking. Offer guaranteed contracts in case of injury etc. Of course there will be agents involved.
Athletes will simply go where ever they can get the most lucrative deal.
The group probably can't be boosters or have an official affiliation with the school.

 

[jaywalker72]

I, for one, welcome the litany of GCMB posts that will follow recruiting like free agency. All the deals, all the rumors. This is a boon for my good friend, Oxrageous, and his glorious Gator message board.

 

[aka]

I do see how it could get out of hand, but as was stated, the richest schools usually get the best athletes now. Guess we'll find out.