Do you believe Drake May was offered $5 million?

GTCrew4b said:
Lincoln Riley has 3 of the last 6 Heisman winners. You don’t think he could do that with pretty much anyone? He’s already done it. I refuse to believe Caleb Williams was the driving force of that team and the ticket sales vs Lincoln Riley.

No. No college football player is worth $5M. They are far more replaceable than they and apparently you think.
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A superstar QB can be worth more than a coach, and coaches make $5M on the regular
 
Mack Brown is out there pounding the same story the Pitt HC came out on. I'm sorta glad and ready for some blow back the fact that NIL were allowed such free reign is ridiculous we went from kids getting no money at all for their likeness and play to a basic damn FA pool.

1. Should have been 2 types of NIL deals a team one with a set yearly CAP and a player one with a set yearly CAP and only 1 of each.
2. Should've never been in the hundreds of thousands much less millions for players.
3. Should be 3rd party regulated and set heavy automated infraction penalities for Schools ans players in violation. Making that Money Bag scenario very dangerous
 
The Champ said:
A superstar QB can be worth more than a coach, and coaches make $5M on the regular
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A superstar college QB is not worth $5M period. Maybe they are in this new bubble we have made but that will not be “the going rate” for a stud QB in college football. It is asinine. They can only play 4 years. 3 if they’re really really good. And it ensures nothing in terms of team success. The only thing it does or attempts to do is buy access for the booster which is all these people want.
 
GTCrew4b said:
A superstar college QB is not worth $5M period. Maybe they are in this new bubble we have made but that will not be “the going rate” for a stud QB in college football. It is asinine. They can only play 4 years. 3 if they’re really really good. And it ensures nothing in terms of team success. The only thing it does or attempts to do is buy access for the booster which is all these people want.
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He is worth it if someone is willing to pay it.
 
GTCrew4b said:
A superstar college QB is not worth $5M period. Maybe they are in this new bubble we have made but that will not be “the going rate” for a stud QB in college football. It is asinine. They can only play 4 years. 3 if they’re really really good. And it ensures nothing in terms of team success. The only thing it does or attempts to do is buy access for the booster which is all these people want.
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Idk. If a great NFL qb is worth $50M; there is no way a great college qb at some big revenue program isn’t worth $5M.
 
GT98 said:
No NFL team is drafting an 18 year old kid.

Better, let college football implode and Ugag, Alabama, OSU and a few others can continue playing semi pro ball and the rest of Div 1 can do something resembling amateur athletics.
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It forces the distinction between amateur and pro. If you want a feeder team where the athletes are paid, you go there. If you want an education, you go to college. NBA drafts after 1 year. MLB out of high school. I think the NFL expanding practice squads to accommodate younger players is much easier transition than cfb imploding and birthing its own semi pro league.
 
The Champ said:
Idk. If a great NFL qb is worth $50M; there is no way a great college qb at some big revenue program isn’t worth $5M.
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The NFL QB with a $50M contract is not 2 years into his college career.
 
Maybe it’s time to reduce the football 3 year NCAA rule to 1 year. People say the kids aren’t ready but more and more kids are coming out of these high school programs with the size and skills. The best QB in the country right now isn’t eligible until next year. It isn’t just skills positions either anymore. Jonathan Allen was ready to go nearly from day one. You could probably say the same about Aaron Donald and other guys as well. Some of these players are already running NFL schemes in college. Some prep schools are even running them. If the best interest of the player is to make money then NIL is peanuts compared to the pros.
 
The Champ said:
I don’t really see why Drake Maye making $5million is a bad thing. If someone was willing to pay it, and he wants to sell himself, more power to him.
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Nah öööö that. Ruins the sport for us. I’m willing to unjustly keep them from getting paid if it’s good for Tech, cause it benefits me.
 
BigDanT said:
Nah öööö that. Ruins the sport for us. I’m willing to unjustly keep them from getting paid if it’s good for Tech, cause it benefits me.
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No one was unjustly keeping them from getting paid. There are 100s of thousands of high school athletes who would be willing to take their place for the “unjust wages.”
 
At the other end of NIL, my baseball loving eight year old grandson who lives in Greenville, NC enjoyed what he called “the greatest party ever” as his buddy’s family paid three of the best East Carolina baseball players to be there and hang out with the kids. They entered into the fun, had a little bit of a clinic, then enjoyed a whiffle ball game. Each player got $200 for a two hour party.

This is how NIL should work. Athletes can reap the benefit that accrues from their name, image and likeness. The athletes should get a small but fair royalty when their name and image are part of a video game or their jersey is sold. They should be able to be hired for their advertising value. The schools should not get involved with this in any way - keep it between the player and company or individuals willing to pay them.

The NCAA has pouted because athletes are getting paid. They should clamp down on the collectives. They should punish schools who recruit high school athletes or transfers with income promises; the schools should stay out of this. Athletes marketing themselves is not going to hurt sports. But, schools commandeering the payola and recruiting based on pay promises is destructive to sports.

Some idiot paying Drake Maye $5mil will not ruin sports. In fact, it makes an upset win over UNCheat all the sweeter to know some fool invested so much in a college QB.
 
It's a bubble, let the kids eat while the getting is good. No one is offering Drake Maye more than like $50,000 in 2032.
 
QuadF said:
Or it rebounds because that's a figure so far beyond what can be sustained. NCAA needs to let people go pro immediately. It fixes the whole thing.
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Lol no it doesn’t. Now the next tier of player would get paid to go these factory schools
 
wesgt123 said:
Every year the limits will get pushed more and more until there’s some kind of regulation. If that happens at all.
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Things will get worse until someone is compelled to superficially save the day.

Also the basic plot synopsis for the story of man.
 
malak05 said:
Mack Brown is out there pounding the same story the Pitt HC came out on. I'm sorta glad and ready for some blow back the fact that NIL were allowed such free reign is ridiculous we went from kids getting no money at all for their likeness and play to a basic damn FA pool.

1. Should have been 2 types of NIL deals a team one with a set yearly CAP and a player one with a set yearly CAP and only 1 of each.
2. Should've never been in the hundreds of thousands much less millions for players.
3. Should be 3rd party regulated and set heavy automated infraction penalities for Schools ans players in violation. Making that Money Bag scenario very dangerous
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It's even more simple than this. They can make all the money they can get but:

1) the kid is stuck with the school he signs with, no transfers unless the school's football program dissolves.

2) players still have academic eligibility to meet and must play until they complete their senior year. If a redshirt occurs it adds a year. No early draft if you play in college.

3) a player that loses academic eligibility or can't play still counts against the new 90 player roster limit until what would be their senior year.

This is multi-fold. It makes the players actually commit to a school, the $ can factor in but they have to make a decision and are bound by it. If they don't show out to play they don't have anything for the scouts other than combine stats.

The schools will recruit very carefully because they are playing a more complicated numbers game. If injuries manifest, players flunk, aren't good teammates etc., they still count against the limit until they fall off after their senior year.

If a school gets reckless they could be fielding 30 man rosters or have all their money tied up in players that aren't producing. Use whatever strategy you like and prepare for the outcome.
 
aeromech said:
Probably not Oregon despite their ties to UA or whomever. NIKE wanted Deion at SF because they felt he was more marketable there than Atlanta. Looking at marketability I think they may focus on school like USC or Texas before they focus on Oregon.
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I wonder how much Bama is shelling out for this current class, which is loaded with 5 stars. Just flipped a top ranked 5 star from Iowa yesterday from his state U.
Saban must be pulling out all the stops after railing against others doing it
 
GTCrew4b said:
No one was unjustly keeping them from getting paid. There are 100s of thousands of high school athletes who would be willing to take their place for the “unjust wages.”
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I feel like if all nine Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously that the ban on NIL was illegal, and the justice who wrote the majority opinion signaled that the ban on schools paying players was also illegal, then they were unjustly kept from getting paid by definition. I mean, it's right in their name -- justice!

We're a nation of laws, and those laws apply to everyone. If the schools were systematically and publicly violating the law to keep players from getting paid, as all nine Supreme Court justices ruled, then yes, that was unjust.
 
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