Game Over: NCAA allows athletes to profit from name

[Jack o' Diamonds]

NCAA votes to allow athletes to profit off likeness

Ruination has begun

 

[CU-UF]

Did you miss the 14 page California post below?

 

[Jack o' Diamonds]

Did you miss the 14 page California post below?

That's Cali.. This is officially everybody.. Ncaa ruling...

 

[CU-UF]

Same topic, plus its also florida. Still its a good thing.

 

[EyeDocGator]

So, if a Clemson or Bama booster offers a $100,000 guaranteed likeness deal for every year the 5* player is enrolled and on the team, it's perfectly legal. At least we won't be getting into any bidding wars.

 

[CU-UF]

Hopefully, but perhaps Im just a dreamer, the NCAA now finally acknowledging it needs to happen they can prevent some of the extreme examples cited with some well thought out and rational rules.

 

[ufgator812]

Maybe now we can get a new NCAA game...

 

[Zambo]

So bob the booster tells 5 star athlete if he attends the school they'll pay him money to use his likeness in their car ads and stuff like that. Well, here we go......

 

[chferg]

I imagine the Texas schools with their rich boosters are salivating with all these 50k commercial deals for all the best players

 

[soflagator]

So bob the booster tells 5 star athlete if he attends the school they'll pay him money to use his likeness in their car ads and stuff like that. Well, here we go......

I think it was McElroy that brought up the impact this would(now will) have on the team dynamic. So in 2008, Tebow, Harvin and Spikes are getting serious deals, Dunlap and Murphy a little smaller, and then like 15+ starters who are critical role players but don't command the money, are just sitting by idly as the typical broke students. I don't see how that can be healthy.

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.

 

[cover2]

NCAA votes to allow athletes to profit off likeness

Ruination has begun

Wish I could give you more likes for using "ruination." That was my grandaddy's favorite word. In his day, ruination was coming from fast food restaurants, child labor laws, and Beatle haircuts.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Hopefully, but perhaps Im just a dreamer, the NCAA now finally acknowledging it needs to happen they can prevent some of the extreme examples cited with some well thought out and rational rules.

How?

This leads to only one thing. The team with the most money dominates college football forever.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

It's about time.

 

[gatormandan]

The beginning of the end.

 

[Fishon]

of course the old whites on this board will not like this

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Honestly, I'll be done with college football in a couple of years.
This will very quickly devolve into the top 1% having 99% of the talent. They'll be 5-10 teams that are competitive. Get use to 70-0 games during most of the regular season.
The NCAA can't do anything other than maybe say Boosters can't be the payee. That can't control someone who doesn't have affiliation with the University. So as a wealthy businessman instead of becoming a "Booster" I pay recruits for their likeness in my commercials. There are sooo many ways to abuse this. Saban's head must be exploding.

 

[stephenPE]

of course the old whites on this board will not like this

I came out for it at the get go. I remember when letting pros compete in the Olympics would ruin it.
Like Cover said: The apocalypse is always around the corner..........im paraphrasing there.

 

[stephenPE]

This will very quickly devolve into the top 1% having 99% of the talent. They'll be 5-10 teams that are competitive. Get use to 70-0 games during most of the regular season.

Football is close to that. UK UNC and Duke would say its close in basketball. Private high schools have gone a long way
in taking over the small school titles..........

 

[ThreatMatrix]

Football is close to that. UK UNC and Duke would say its close in basketball. Private high schools have gone a long way
in taking over the small school titles..........

So shouldn't the right thing be to try to make it less that way instead of making it more that way.
And the Olympics operate nothing like College football recruiting.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

The people saying this is going to ruin college football because the teams with the most money will run the show obviously aren't paying attention already.

Who wins the titles? The teams with the deepest pockets for coaching staffs, facilities, stadiums, recruiting budgets, training staff, weight room, fancy dorms, and friendly car dealerships with extra Chargers and Escalades sitting around. How will this change that? College football has been about money for YEARS.