FSU player on strike for NIL deal?

Here we go. What an awful unnecessary tragedy to corrupt what was a good amateur sport. Click. Off goes my TV. I don’t watch self entitled narcissistic 18 and 19 year olds. And they should have capped the college coaching salaries along time ago along with the revenue distributed to conferences.
 
So he’s gonna transfer, I know he won’t come to us because we won’t have much to offer him.
 
Can you imagine that discussion between the player and coach?

Player: Give me a NIL or I don't practice.
Coach: But I can't. Coaches and schools don't give NILs.
Player: Well, then make somebody give me one.
Coach: Ummm, k?
 
That story was hard for me to follow. It sounded like he had a deal, but didn’t uphold his end of the deal?

“From what I have heard Brownlee did not meet the min requirement of the agreement and as such compensation has either been delayed or will not be occurring.”

If that’s so, then it’s unclear how refusing to practice will resolve the situation.

JRjr
 
They really should get rid of all academic requirements, admission, matriculation, classes, grades . . . guys like this who brag that "football is all I know" (and all he'll ever know at FSU) aren't there for a college education anyway.
 
1982Jacket said:
They really should get rid of all academic requirements, admission, matriculation, classes, grades . . . guys like this who brag that "football is all I know" (and all he'll ever know at FSU) aren't there for a college education anyway.
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So they should remove the college from college football? Why even have student athletes tied to a university at that point?
 
1982Jacket said:
They really should get rid of all academic requirements, admission, matriculation, classes, grades . . . guys like this who brag that "football is all I know" (and all he'll ever know at FSU) aren't there for a college education anyway.
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I doubt any player with a substantial NIL is required to meet any actual academic requirement.
 
GTWannaBee said:
So they should remove the college from college football? Why even have student athletes tied to a university at that point?
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Frankly, yes, that's where this is all should be going. Big revenue college sports is an oddity of history and will eventually be relegated as such. Looking thru the record books to our games in the 1910s, for example, it's pretty clear that the sport was barely more than club sport territory at the time. Football, in relative terms, is a young sport. Given the issues which are already becoming apparent with NIL, it's a matter of time before the sport develops a true minor league/sport academy(think IMG tied to NFL teams) system. Whether that takes 5 or 50 years is the question. The sport may no longer be recognizable by then, anyway.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Frankly, yes, that's where this is all should be going. Big revenue college sports is an oddity of history and will eventually be relegated as such. Looking thru the record books to our games in the 1910s, for example, it's pretty clear that the sport was barely more than club sport territory at the time. Football, in relative terms, is a young sport. Given the issues which are already becoming apparent with NIL, it's a matter of time before the sport develops a true minor league/sport academy(think IMG tied to NFL teams) system. Whether that takes 5 or 50 years is the question. The sport may no longer be recognizable by then, anyway.
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If it develops into a minor league, that’s fine, but it should be removed from colleges altogether. If you remove the academic side of the student athlete, then you should also remove the involvement of any university at that point too. As long as there is a university name on the jersey, there should also be academic requirements. That was all I was saying.
 
GTWannaBee said:
So they should remove the college from college football? Why even have student athletes tied to a university at that point?
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Seriously? It’s been this way forever. Some athletes use their talent to get an education but others don’t. I can tell you from up close and personal that GT has had plenty of athletes who had nothing to do with the school and we all cheered them. Acting like any of this is new is just laughable. The only difference is it is now out in the open. I actually find the “shock” of fans more interesting than anything involving the players. It’s like fans are just now realizing that college athletes don’t have education as the top priority. Take a kid like Parada. Does anyone believe he came 3,000 miles to go to Scheller for 4 semesters because Scheller is that good? He came to GT for the same reason Gibbs is going to Bama. Good on him but school had zero part of any decision making. For those guys it will work out perfectly as both will be millionaires within a year.
 
It's not entitlement if the kid is aiming for his fair market value. Entitlement would be when all the other kids who're slower than him demand equal pay for equally showing up to practice. Football players only have so many downs before their bodies break and it makes sense to manage risk by getting paid now if you can.

That is not to say NIL isn't brutally murdering amateur sports before our eyes.
 
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