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1. Neither Congress, nor the NCAA, nor schools, nor coaches should be involved in NIL. No sports league in the world regulates NIL. Offer guidelines, contract templates, education, etc, but otherwise players pay taxes on NIL, end of story. Nobody regulates Nick Saban’s or Aaron Judge’s NIL deals, or computer science majors, why should we start with college athletes. 2. It seems like what Nick (and other coaches) is most frustrated with, is the unlimited free-agency. I don’t see how that can be fixed unless they consider the players employees. Then they could limit player movement with a collective bargaining agreement. But then they would also have to consider revenue sharing, health-care, insurance, etc.

College FB needs to go to a promotion/relegation system like European soccer. Five leagues with 24-32 teams each. Top 3 teams are promoted each year, bottom 3 teams are relegated each year. But yeah, that won’t happen, tradition, and stuff.

That’s not true. See Cavinder twins. They were scoring NIL deals that had nothing to do with Miami. And what did Dr. Pepper have to do with USC and Caleb Williams? Same goes for gymnasts like Suni Lee. D1 athletes can become stars independent of the schools they play for. The other question is this: why shouldn’t it be a pay for play? Like say, every other job search in every other profession?

NIL is not restricted in any other sports league or profession. Why should it be restricted with college athletes?

No sports league in the world has a salary cap on NIL earnings. They certainly never capped Saban’s NIL.

SEC and BIG10 want the money they're due. Players chasing NIL deals are simply imitating their elders.

“ no successful business operates this way” NCAA still hasn’t admitted that NCAA football is a business.

No sports league in the world regulates NIL. Why is the NCAA trying to do so? No other business in the world tries to prevent potential employees from investigating NIL options BEFORE they join the business! They certainly don’t prevent coaches from exploring NIL options before they switch schools. Notice how NCAA calls them “inducements” vs. exploring their earnings potential. Also, the NCAA doesn’t want contracts, which means everyone is a free agent after the regular season. No contracts = free agency. NCAA and the schools system is achieving exactly the results they should expect.

UT should just stonewall the NCAA like Michigan—they might get an automatic bid to the playoff.

Like someone else observed, “A hard commitment, soft commitment, medium commitment all mean one thing: Nothing.”

It has been that way since the 90s, when coaches started making more money than college presidents. From a 2015 article: “…in 2000, there were only a handful of football coaches drawing $1 million in salary. By 2004, when Charlie Weis was hired at Notre Dame, it was closer to thirty. Today seventy‑five coaches collect at least $1 million—and most are paid considerably more, according to university records and various databases on coaches’ salaries. Five coaches have pay packages topping $5 million annually. Another fifteen collect between $3 million and $5 million. Thirty‑four others receive $2 million or more. Also from a 2014 article, “Coaches who were among the five highest-paid employees at their university in 2014 earned an average of $554,996 more than the university's chief executive, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's most recent survey on executive compensation at public universities.”

An FSU assistant coach helped a naive prospective player connect with a shady NIL collective. NIL collective flops, player receives no money and leaves. NCAA: This is a serious, illegal violation of all that’s good and true. Michigan coaching staff blatantly and systematically cheats for two and half years. NCAA: Welcome to the CFP.

If players sign a professional contract, then they can also form a union and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement, which will involve injury liability, profit sharing, transfer rules, working conditions, time off, etc. Until then, the portal and annual free agency will remain. Justice Dept just joined a lawsuit to keep transfer portal open for any player, every season. And no, NIL is not a problem or the problem. Notice how no one seems to think professional athletes or college coaches need to have their NIL deals regulated by their teams or leagues or Congress. NCAA has dopey rules for NIL, need to get rid of them. Why can a coach be offered a job before the season is over but not a player? Why can a coach "explore" NIL deals before he takes another job?

From 1981 through 1984, OU and Georgia were partners in a lawsuit that changed college football. They sued to end the NCAA's regulation of televised football. Some great quotes from an article I found: "Georgia President Fred Davison was president of the College Football Association, a coalition of most major-conference programs that was formed to fight for NCAA football reform. The Sooners, led by Duncan and OU President Bill Banowsky, were adamant that reform was needed and were willing to stand up to the NCAA. Which was no small matter. The attorneys say both schools were threatened with NCAA sanctions if they didn't cease and desist, that long-time NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers exacted draconian influence on collegiate sports." "“They described the NCAA plan,” Meyers said. “I said, ‘Guys, that's a classic cartel.'” "Meyers [the lawyer for UGA and OK] eventually found an expert economist who testified that the only difference between the NCAA and OPEC, the petroleum exporting consortium, was that the NCAA had better enforcement mechanisms." "“Some schools and pundits thought this whole exercise was crazy,” Meyers said. “Even if OU and Georgia won, that they'd be in worse shape, not only because of sanctions which could follow — and in fact did — but they thought they'd make less money per game and not be on. They were really fearful of oversaturation of the market, viewership going down.” "they learned that NCAA stood for “Never Compromise Anything Anytime. We tried to settle every time we met. OU and Georgia were somewhat uncomfortable. The NCAA had never lost a case."

Schools and NCAA have nothing to do with NIL benefits and should not have anything to do with NIL benefits. (Coaches don't have NIL regulation, why should players?) Are schools going to regulate NIL benefits for music majors or social media personalities or computer science majors?

“ Bammer is a mediocre program when they don’t have one of the best coaches of all time” I think is this is what one would call a “truism.”

“Buy their way back into relevance.” Hmm, Miami is not relevant in any way, shape or form. Texas, well, 1/2 way there. Nice for players to get to be ‘relevant” and not get stuck on the bench because the blue bloods hoard the 4/5 star players, year after year.

Yes, we’re all sorry that all of Saban’s organizational and coaching genius is apparently utterly useless now that players can be (semi) compensated. Saban is the GOAT but he and all the other names you mentioned benefitted from a system that restricted the players unnecessarily. Remember that Kirby won his first NC with NO portal players, btw.

Your key phrase is “WANT to win.” What will/would be more achievable for Kirby: Winning another couple NC with UGA or winning one Super Bowl with the Falcons?

So Bama has never poached coaches or players?

The dynasty is over. Three years without a championship. Saban is done. The sky is falling. UGA is toast. Now Bama. SEC domination is over. ?

1. Bowls should pay players directly—You want the best players in your bowl, reward them. (NFL bound players might not care, but everyone else would.) 2. Bowls should pay for injury insurance for all bowl players. 3. Bowls should pay the winning team MORE, significantly more. 4. It would behoove NIL collectives to encourage, incentivize, reward, require players to be in bowl games. 5. Disassociate all bowl games from traditional participants—get the best teams available. 6. Recognize non-playoff bowls for what they are—participation trophies. Celebrate, enjoy, those teams that don’t have Championship dreams don’t care. 7. Yeah, early signing needs to move to after last bowl game. 8. Might need to think about getting rid of the conference championship games, replace with first round of playoff bowls.

What did I read? 41 bowls games total? Yeah, some of them are meaningless.

CFP to FSU—Bama deserves to be in, they beat the best team in the country. CFP to UGA—you're not even as good as FSU CFP to Texas—Crud, you beat Bama, I guess we have to let you in too. CFP to MIch—you won the all-time, long-term, systemic Cheater Bowl, welcome to the CFP

Michigan is the team that should have gotten a lump of coal in their stocking. They had no business being in the CFP after two years of systemic, long-term, blatant cheating. FSU not getting into the CFP was lame, but, my goodness, letting Michigan in is insane. People should be much more upset about Mich getting in than about FSU getting left out. NCAA, BIG10 and CFP essentially rewarded Mich for cheating.

This stuff is happening because the portal closes on Jan 2. When a player finds out the coach is bringing in one or more replacement QBs through the portal or recruiting, and he will not start next year, he can’t wait around till after the bowl games to figure out what he’s gonna do. FSU is hotly pursuing multiple portal QBs and apparently let Rodemaker know. Seems like the portal shouldn’t open till after the bowl games are done. (Same goes for coaches, should not be able to interview for new positions till after bowl games.)

For me the biggest scandal is not that FSU was left out, but that Mich was allowed in. Long-term, systemic, coach-approved cheating, should not have been anywhere near the CFP. Bowl game, sure, for the players' sake, but not the 4 team CFP. It's absurd. Mich suffered zero consequences for their blatant, deliberate, systematic violation of the rules.

Michigan should not have been allowed anywhere near the CFP after their long-term, systemic, coach-approved cheating scheme. Harbaugh's 3 sideline ban is laughable in light of the fact that he now receives a $1 million bonus for going to the CFP.

Glad he flipped now, but still bizarre that the family moved to GA, he was going to enroll early (today), and he was actively "recruiting" other 4/5 star players to come to UGA. COMMITTED (in all caps no less) is rather ironic after 4 high schools and three universities.

COMMITTED IYou Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means