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.
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. Tennessee can pay what they want to who they want.
