Tennessee Vols quarterback holding out for more NIL $$ - UPDATE Vols call his bluff and move on from QB

[seaborneq]

I just love the people supporting the school’s now in the whole NIL stupidity:

So for years you had a system of cheating/under the table payoffs to parents, mentors and the kids themselves by boosters and people bitched and moaned how “unfair” it was to their school who “tries to run a clean program and can’t compete”.

So you get NIL and athletes are treated as free agents every year - unsurprisingly athletes who have better than expected years want more $$ the next year. Everyone bitches and moans about the “Prima Donna’s” ruining the sport with their demands.

It’s pretty damn clear what the solution is - but no one is going to like it. Either you go 100% socialist - every player on every team gets a equal percentage of the revenue their sport generates so there is no “pay disparity” between playing at the top league or the lowest team in the weakest league in your sport OR you institute contracts that commit a player to the school where they signed their initial NIL deal - want to transfer - fine, you forfeit your NIL deal. Make them place NIL in an escrow until they graduate college too - this way no spending the money - then transferring and not having to pay it back because they are “bankrupt” and they have an incentive to get a degree. Put NIL funds on a beating schedule where you only earn a small percentage each quarter you attend/pass your classes with majority paid on graduation.

That’s how you fix the system - but no one wants to fix it/they want some hybrid of the old payoff system that allows the traditional powers to remain the dominant powers.

Keep it like it is and see who blinks first. A fool and his money are soon parted. Anything will work if you give the bag to the right people. Some of the athletes will be broke if you gave them money everyday. And some would save every dime. The Tennessee QB was going to ask for more money no matter how poorly he played. He wasn’t the reason they won 11 games, but the defense and the running back were.

 

[Tanko]

Keep it like it is and see who blinks first. A fool and his money are soon parted. Anything will work if you give the bag to the right people. Some of the athletes will be broke if you gave them money everyday. And some would save every dime. The Tennessee QB was going to ask for more money no matter how poorly he played. He wasn’t the reason they won 11 games, but the defense and the running back were.

Seaborn you seem pessimistic about the NIL system. I understand completely. I am too.

I'm anxious to see what happens to the TEN QB.... He'll be picked up tomorrow when the portal opens for sure but will he get his asking price?

 

[Brock Landers]

Great article

How Tennessee clawed back power in refusing QB's NIL demand

Iamaleava is a seminal figure, somehow representing both ends of the pendulum swing of player empowerment.

www.espn.com

 

[seaborneq]

Seaborn you seem pessimistic about the NIL system. I understand completely. I am too.

I'm anxious to see what happens to the TEN QB.... He'll be picked up tomorrow when the portal opens for sure but will he get his asking price?

Im not pessimistic at all. There will be growing pains. When the games are live and being played what the players and coaches are making is the last thing on my mind. I like the wild wild west aspect of it. The schools have to sell their souls for the glory and look like mercenaries, I love that part the most.

 

[KVB]

How about the idea and ideals being two, three ,or four year deals that keep the athletes at a school.

I’ve always felt the athletes should be paid, but none of them are following the rules when getting recruited, nor are those rules being enforced because it’s hard to enforce them if not possible.

Boosters recruiting athletes for NIL deals before they come to the school should be banned forever from talking to the team or athletes, and kicked off campuses they’re affiliated with for life.

The punishments need to be harsh.