Should semipro/college players be paid, or allowed to sell their stuff? (NIL and Revenue Sharing)

[brodybuck21]

 

[OHSportsFan]

Another example of what the suits kept from us for decades.

 

[OHSportsFan]

Well this one is interesting. We already have schools dipping into hospital funds, why not a charity.



I’m happy for the student athletes. Show up in some commericals, hand out some food, shake hands and get $50k.

But it feels icky you can pretty much donate to a non-profit, tax deductible entity that is basically a front to pay players. (If your cause is so important maybe just donate/spend that $800k directly on helping those people?? Maybe that’s just me.)

I don’t know. I hope they do some good out of this but let’s be real…

 

[5 STAR U-G-A]

But it feels icky you can pretty much donate to a non-profit, tax deductible entity that is basically a front to pay players. (If your cause is so important maybe just donate/spend that $800k directly on helping those people?? Maybe that’s just me.)

You mean like the New Spring Church in Seneca, SC?

No wonder why Dabo doesn't like NIL...

 

[CincyInterloper]

Well this one is interesting. We already have schools dipping into hospital funds, why not a charity.



I’m happy for the student athletes. Show up in some commericals, hand out some food, shake hands and get $50k.

But it feels icky you can pretty much donate to a non-profit, tax deductible entity that is basically a front to pay players. (If your cause is so important maybe just donate/spend that $800k directly on helping those people?? Maybe that’s just me.)

I don’t know. I hope they do some good out of this but let’s be real…

I wonder what the Nevin Shapiro era at The U would have looked like with NIL?

 

[gmen6981]

I wonder what the Nevin Shapiro era at The U would have looked like with NIL?

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

 

[ScriptOhio]

Here's a different NIL deal, i.e. "a clear pathway from college athletics to WWE":

 

[ScriptOhio]

Apparently Ohio State track and field athlete Carlos Aviles is in on the WWE NIL deal:

WWE unveils inaugural NIL class

WWE’s NIL program was announced last week following the NCAA’s historic new policy that took effect on July 1, 2021, which has ushered in the NIL era, allowing college athletes the ability to monetize their name, image and likeness. The comprehensive program serves to recruit and develop potential future Superstars and further enhances WWE’s talent development process through collaborative partnerships with college athletes from diverse athletic backgrounds.

Entire article: https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-unveils-inaugural-nil-class

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

 

[Jaxbuck]

Communal systems are never the answer until you solve the, currently unsolvable, issue of how to protect the productive from the non productive free ride types.

It hasn't been solved in these last two thousand some odd years of recorded history.

Maybe tomorrow is the day.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Communal systems are never the answer until you solve the, currently unsolvable, issue of how to protect the productive from the non productive free ride types.

It hasn't been solved in these last two thousand some odd years of recorded history.

Maybe tomorrow is the day.

Or the next day...

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Mark Pantoni liked this Tweet....

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Communal systems are never the answer until you solve the, currently unsolvable, issue of how to protect the productive from the non productive free ride types.

It hasn't been solved in these last two thousand some odd years of recorded history.

Maybe tomorrow is the day.

But it doesn't mean you can't have some common sense regulations. There's a lot of grey area between Leon Trotsky and Ayn Rand with which to work.

Now, I don't think NIL should become a pool where every player gets the same thing (though that's pretty much the system that cfb had forever), but the shady shit (Texas, Miami, BYU) that has already come out of the woodwork in less than a year needs to be controlled and regulated somehow. And I blame the NCAA. They made zero effort to craft a rationale system to implement this because they were trying to get it rejected right up until the last second.

 

[Jaxbuck]

But it doesn't mean you can't have some common sense regulations. There's a lot of grey area between Leon Trotsky and Ayn Rand with which to work.

Now, I don't think NIL should become a pool where every player gets the same thing (though that's pretty much the system that cfb had forever), but the shady shit (Texas, Miami, BYU) that has already come out of the woodwork in less than a year needs to be controlled and regulated somehow. And I blame the NCAA. They made zero effort to craft a rationale system to implement this because they were trying to get it rejected right up until the last second.

"Common sense" always sounds reasonable until you get down to brass tacks over who's definition of common sense it is.

It's wide ass open right now and OSU should be one of the rich schools.

Go win.