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

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Nutriaitch said:
THAT they are getting paid isn't the issue.
if NIL was actually used the way it was (allegedly) intended, it would probably still be awesome.

it should be allowing a kid to go out and secure what he can in endorsement type deals, and not "how much you paying me to sign here?"

so then only a select few would land big money deals (think Bryce Young doing Dr Pepper commercials).
everyone else could still make deals, but it would literally be based off the value of their own name.

so backup punter might only make a couple hundred bucks signing autographs at his hometown muffler shop.
a starting O-Lineman might parlay it into a few thousand to do commercials for the local car lot.
a stud RB or WR could land a gig for a larger brand, like maybe regional restaurants, etc..
and the biggest of stars would land national type deals.
etc.
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I get how it's supposed to work but the same thing applies (at least to me). It's the same as a free agent coming to your favorite sports team. Who gives a shit how much they paid him? It isn't my money. I'm happy the owners are trying to field a winner.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Then they need to work behind the scenes with someone to set up a real partnership with a capable NIL outfit. Or spread the risk around by not having just one dominant partner. This is blocking and tackling level stuff for Gene to be doing while Day coaches and Pantoni tells someone(s) who he wants and what the market price seems to be. Doing nothing out of fear that some bad actor might get leverage over the athletic program would be mind-numbingly incompetent on Smiths part.

Also, they keep dropping the "do the right thing" phrase every chance they get so you have to give it some value, especially given Gene's career long relationship with the NCAA and the infamous 2011 reading of those particular tea leaves.

At the end of the day, there is no excuse for a program with the base that OSU has to be behind in the NIL game.
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Agreed.

You may have some bad rogue actors, but the majority of the money will be running through the collectives. This isn’t Miami where rogue actors are going to be undermining the AG and coaches.

The athletic department is recommending specific collectives.
Those collectives should be providing their financials and any other information requested to the athletic department to get/keep the recommendations.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
as free agency took over, I watched less and less professional sports to the point where i watch very little of it now.
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Jaxbuck said:
To each their own.
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Look gentlemen, I can't have all of this negativity this close to Christmas. Can we all just agree on a couple of things?

1. Fuck Georgia

And most importantly,

2. Fuck That Team/School Up North

Be Blessed,

LovelandBuckeye
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I don't speak twitter. Is Bill upset because kids are doing commercials?
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No, just poking fun this is an actual opening paragraph. The Cheez-It Bowl marketing is going to be especially over the top and we have come a long way paying players.

“On the morning of Dec. 29, a pair of football players -- one from Oklahoma and the other from Florida State -- will post messages to their social media accounts while surrounded by fake cheese throw pillows and cracker-inspired interior design. They'll let followers know that, much like an anthropomorphized, excited wheel of cheddar wearing shoulder pads in a long-running television commercial, they have woken up "feeling the cheesiest." The folks at Kellogg's will pay them to do so.”

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Popeyes meme kid Dieunerst Collin, now a college football player, signs NIL deal with Popeyes

Scores of people with a smart phone have seen it: The young boy clutching a Popeyes-branded cup and giving the camera major side-eye. The humorous image became a household name in the world of memes and lives on today. That boy, Dieunerst Collin, now plays offensive line for Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, 10 years later. After Collin recently dug up the meme and identified himself as the subject, Popeyes announced this week that it had signed him to an NIL deal.





Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...player-signs-NIL-deal-with-Popeyes-202781963/
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Popeyes meme kid Dieunerst Collin, now a college football player, signs NIL deal with Popeyes

Scores of people with a smart phone have seen it: The young boy clutching a Popeyes-branded cup and giving the camera major side-eye. The humorous image became a household name in the world of memes and lives on today. That boy, Dieunerst Collin, now plays offensive line for Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, 10 years later. After Collin recently dug up the meme and identified himself as the subject, Popeyes announced this week that it had signed him to an NIL deal.





Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...player-signs-NIL-deal-with-Popeyes-202781963/
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This is an awesome story!
 
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zincfinger said:
Nor did anyone else. But college football is second-rate football, and it only exists as a marketable phenomenon because it occupies a particular niche. Fuck with that niche, and you will destroy its marketability.
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So paying kids somehow fucks with the niche?

We’re back to the scenario where someone is going to stop watching the Buckeyes because the kids get paid?

I just don’t see it.
 
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