NCAA Asks US Appeals Court to Block Pay for Student-Athletes

I'm just glad someone is looking out for physically privileged athletes with full scholarships to elite academic institutions, NIL deals, exclusive access to top-notch fitness facilities, academic tutoring, top-notch medical care, and a pipeline to internships and post-graduation jobs. Wouldn't want them to be exploited.
 
I've said it on here before.....

My father and I attend games together. We've re-upped ST's this season. He's 80 years old. When he gets to the point he can't go anymore, I'm probably done completely with college football. All of it. It used to be an enjoyable Saturday on the flats. Head over the the Varsity. Go to the ballgame. Now, we have all this off the field stuff and you get bombarded with ads and pumped in noise like you are at a damn NBA game or something at the game. It is just getting damn unenjoyable.

I can see the day, soon enough, where my $4k-5k a season go towards a nice relaxing trip. Hell, with what I have spent on GT football over the decades would have gotten me a nice little cabin somewhere.
 
JJacket said:
I've said it on here before.....

My father and I attend games together. We've re-upped ST's this season. He's 80 years old. When he gets to the point he can't go anymore, I'm probably done completely with college football. All of it. It used to be an enjoyable Saturday on the flats. Head over the the Varsity. Go to the ballgame. Now, we have all this off the field stuff and you get bombarded with ads and pumped in noise like you are at a damn NBA game or something at the game. It is just getting damn unenjoyable.

I can see the day, soon enough, where my $4k-5k a season go towards a nice relaxing trip. Hell, with what I have spent on GT football over the decades would have gotten me a nice little cabin somewhere.
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You would get bored with the cabin and start trying to figure out what football games you can get on the cabin’s TV.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
You would get bored with the cabin and start trying to figure out what football games you can get on the cabin’s TV.
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Or be terrified and have door barricaded when I find out my neighbor wants to have a Deliverance style country party
 
I’m kind of checked out too. Not as fun as it used to be. More about open transfer portal for me, but don’t like NIL much either. Hard to get excited for a team when you know the odds of a good season are near zero, and if by some miracle you make a run the roster will just get raided (without any compensation to the program) and you’re starting from scratch again next year. Had season tix since I graduated but looking like the streak dies this season.
 
JJacket said:
I've said it on here before.....

My father and I attend games together. We've re-upped ST's this season. He's 80 years old. When he gets to the point he can't go anymore, I'm probably done completely with college football. All of it. It used to be an enjoyable Saturday on the flats. Head over the the Varsity. Go to the ballgame. Now, we have all this off the field stuff and you get bombarded with ads and pumped in noise like you are at a damn NBA game or something at the game. It is just getting damn unenjoyable.

I can see the day, soon enough, where my $4k-5k a season go towards a nice relaxing trip. Hell, with what I have spent on GT football over the decades would have gotten me a nice little cabin somewhere.
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$4K-$5K a season?? Are you buying the entire upper north for season tickets?
 
Nehru Jacket said:
You would get bored with the cabin and start trying to figure out what football games you can get on the cabin’s TV.
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Yeah the man who complains non stop about being banned from a forum isn’t gonna leave Tech football alone “because principles”. It’s a look at me post.
 
JJacket said:
I've said it on here before.....

My father and I attend games together. We've re-upped ST's this season. He's 80 years old. When he gets to the point he can't go anymore, I'm probably done completely with college football. All of it. It used to be an enjoyable Saturday on the flats. Head over the the Varsity. Go to the ballgame. Now, we have all this off the field stuff and you get bombarded with ads and pumped in noise like you are at a damn NBA game or something at the game. It is just getting damn unenjoyable.

I can see the day, soon enough, where my $4k-5k a season go towards a nice relaxing trip. Hell, with what I have spent on GT football over the decades would have gotten me a nice little cabin somewhere.
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You nailed it 100 percent
 
NCAA proving the point it is a money making, money laundering, power brokering cartel that can’t stand for any $$$ to pas through hands other than its own.

The power schools arguing for NIL collectives proves they want control of the money. That a 20 year old gets rich because of their athletic talent scares them to death. Under the current system coaches at the top become filthy rich. Athletic departments become bloated with 80k pretty people making money off the talent of football and basketball players.

If the greedy folks had approved stipends and put some of the revenue from video games to aid the players this could have been avoided.

NCAA should enforce two rules - no school endorsed or managed collectives and no negotiating or promising NIL deals with athletes or their representatives. Give us any evidence (E-mail, text, recorded conversation, corroborated testimony) that a coach or university employee has negotiated these deals or made promises regarding these deals and the Coach gets about five years they can’t coach in the NCAA, the school gets that sport shut down for a couple of years, and if the athlete is complicit they lose eligibility permanently to compete in the NCAA sport.

The Alabamas, Georgias and Ohio States all have supported the collectives. That is because they know they will by divvying up the largest pot. If they have no control over NIL’s, they just might lose a few of the top rated athletes to other programs. We are already behind because other conferences share so much more revenue than we get. The best thing for us would be to enforce schools only offering scholarships and athletes signing with schools and let the NIL deals take place out of the control and interference of the schools.
 
Akinji07 said:
$4K-$5K a season?? Are you buying the entire upper north for season tickets?
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4 tickets, parking, souvenirs, food, fuel, my time, and I do donate a bit......I'm an I.E., the cost just isn't the tickets.

That said, I remember when 4 tix were below $100 each and it was just gravy.
 
JJacket said:
4 tickets, parking, souvenirs, food, fuel, my time, and I do donate a bit......I'm an I.E., the cost just isn't the tickets.

That said, I remember when 4 tix were below $100 each and it was just gravy.
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4 tickets is roughly $1K, food is let’s say $100 a game, fuel can’t be more than $50 a game. That’s $2K. Your time is opportunity cost and has nothing to do with actual $ spent. That leaves $2K-$3K for donation. I find it hard to believe someone who buys tickets in the cheapest section donates more 3X their ticket cost. Unless you just wanna make your dad suffer so you make him climb upper north.
 
I still can't get over the fact that these kids want all this money, yet they get a full ride to the school. Talk about hypocrisy. I understand they want to be compensated for their NIL, however, doesn't mean they should be paid millions of dollars. Prove to me that you're worth that by balling out and get into the NFL! Otherwise, just turn the factories into a minor league system and leave the traditional smaller schools to the NCAA. This intitled generation needs to learn you get what you earn!
 
thegtstunner08 said:
I still can't get over the fact that these kids want all this money, yet they get a full ride to the school. Talk about hypocrisy. I understand they want to be compensated for their NIL, however, doesn't mean they should be paid millions of dollars. Prove to me that you're worth that by balling out and get into the NFL! Otherwise, just turn the factories into a minor league system and leave the traditional smaller schools to the NCAA. This intitled generation needs to learn you get what you earn!
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I don't see this as hypocrisy. None of us have to "prove" our economic worth except to those willing to pay us. The issue is that these college athletes have an economic value to certain companies and individuals and the NCAA created a rule that they could not receive any financial benefit that accrues due to their name, image and likeness.
 
SAs were being paid before: tuition, room, board, and books, free training, free tutoring, etc. and COA.

The issue is the big bucks their coaches were making and the profits their AAs were pocketing off of TV and gaming rights off their labor.

Still, what I produce for my company stays with them and makes them multiple millions over years of service. My bosses also make multiples of what I make.

Get used to it boys. That’s the way life works.

The problem is way, way, way too few SAs considered their degree a thing of value. Also, way, way, way too many SAs were given degrees with little to no value.
 
stinger78 said:
SAs were being paid before: tuition, room, board, and books, free training, free tutoring, etc. and COA.

The issue is the big bucks their coaches were making and the profits their AAs were pocketing off of TV and gaming rights off their labor.

Still, what I produce for my company stays with them and makes them multiple millions over years of service. My bosses also make multiples of what I make.

Get used to it boys. That’s the way life works.

The problem is way, way, way too few SAs considered their degree a thing of value. Also, way, way, way too many SAs were given degrees with little to no value.
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By your theory the athletic director should make more than the head football coach. I doubt that happens at most big time football schools.
 
77GTFan said:
"I don't see this as hypocrisy. None of us have to "prove" our economic worth except to those willing to pay us. The issue is that these college athletes have an economic value to certain companies and individuals and the NCAA created a rule that they could not receive any financial benefit that accrues due to their name, image and likeness."

I don't have any issues with these kids getting money for their NIL, but some of them demanding certain things...it's just out of control.
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