I don't see those entities going behind 18-22yo crapshoots. Maybe a few All Americans. But I can see NIL working itself out over time
You're overreacting, and frankly many MANY fans are. Woody made what he made due to the time he coached. If Woody coached now, he'd have no problem getting $8+mill, and getting $1m for his assistants. Woody loved winning, and you do what you have to do to win. Every so often, fans talk about money destroying sports, and clutching their purses, and by the time the season starts, no one cares. Like @Jaxbuck said, money was supposed to kill baseball, it was also supposed to kill every professional sport. Any type of major change is met with immediate resistance with people wanting to go back to how things were. People are scared that change will be bad, especially when you're older, when they don't realize that they've also been apart of change throughout their lives.
I'm sure there were fans who thought CFB would end if someone not a Senior won the Heisman, or if a black man played with white men, or if a black man could play QB, etc, etc. And here we are. Fans are mad at kids literally risking their lives to play a game that they have a 1% chance at becoming a professional at, but they don't have a problem with a guy calling plays making 6, 7 or even 8 figures. I don't see how that makes sense in the real world, but because it's gone on for so long, we're just supposed to accept it.
My daughter and her friends are in college and they are choir minors, they can have camps for young kids and be paid. They're friends who play instruments can have band camps and be paid, but in the past their friends who played football, baseball, basketball, etc couldn't get paid for having camps. How fair is that? And I love my kid, but more people will watch a sporting event like a football game than watch her sing, that's understood and we all know that. But how messed up is that she can have a concert and be paid, but her football or baseball friends can now finally do the same.
Those players were real people, and many of them gave from nothing, and just getting a little check from the school for a sport they loved would mean the world. Yeah it was nice to wear S&G and run out of the Shoe, but there's a lot of beaten down men with no compensation for putting their bodies on the line. I love the fact that players are finally getting paid, and I'm sure many of the greats are too, though many won't say it publicly because they're also the ones who probably were already getting paid back then.
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you think all those other rich dudes dont have skeletons as bad or WORSE than Wexner
