Tech NIL Collective in the Works

Save your money for now. Wait for the "college" players to unionize and see what the collective bargaining agreement looks like. Then "profit".
 
boozinbuzz said:
Save your money for now. Wait for the "college" players to unionize and see what the collective bargaining agreement looks like. Then "profit".
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Can non-employees unionize? I dont understand the legal aspects of such a possibility.
 
After reading that, I see Title IX implications (discrimination lawsuits) lurking around the corner.
 
MEwreck02 said:
So what is the return on this investment again?
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It is this question that other fanbases never really ask. They ask "how much can i afford to give?" even when they do not 80k. This is fundamentally Tech's problem- the answer is the ROI is not good and you (as well as most of our fans) are smart enough to think about that fact. The rub is that we need to donate anyway in order to keep even a P5 program, much less a conference/championship winning program. At its root, I think Tech's problem is that other school's fanbases actually do want it more and they show it with their money. Does this mean their donations have a "good ROI"? Probably not, but I think we (as a fanbase) need to be honest with ourselves about whether we want a winning program bad enough. I am not sure we do.
 
The NCAA has failed to step up to the plate with reasonable regulation in the NIL era. No surprise. It should still be against the rules for schools to pay athletes salary directly from the school. It should be against the rules to arrange or promise NIL deals on behalf of the athlete before a letter of intent is signed. It should be against the rules to promise income for a team or a position group. It should be against the rules for the school to act as agent in any way for NIL deals.

What should have changed, and only changed, is that the athlete can market themselves using their name, image and likeness. If the greedy NCAA had given a potion of proceeds to the players for their top selling video games this could have been avoided. And, we can avoid the mess of guaranteed money to play at a school. The idea of dividing the money evenly among players on the team is contrary to the spirit of NIL and free enterprise. Saban wants this for players, but interesting he does not suggest it for coaches. I think he should put his money and NIL income into the pool so that a third string guard gets the same money he does for being part of the Alabama program.
 
Well its good to see we are at least trying to compete. This collective share the wealth thing is not going to work for the top level teams. The really elite players are not going to be satisfied with their "fair share" of the pot so this strategy will not work for the super teams.
 
77GTFan said:
The NCAA has failed to step up to the plate with reasonable regulation in the NIL era. No surprise. It should still be against the rules for schools to pay athletes salary directly from the school. It should be against the rules to arrange or promise NIL deals on behalf of the athlete before a letter of intent is signed. It should be against the rules to promise income for a team or a position group. It should be against the rules for the school to act as agent in any way for NIL deals.

What should have changed, and only changed, is that the athlete can market themselves using their name, image and likeness. If the greedy NCAA had given a potion of proceeds to the players for their top selling video games this could have been avoided. And, we can avoid the mess of guaranteed money to play at a school. The idea of dividing the money evenly among players on the team is contrary to the spirit of NIL and free enterprise. Saban wants this for players, but interesting he does not suggest it for coaches. I think he should put his money and NIL income into the pool so that a third string guard gets the same money he does for being part of the Alabama program.
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You are correct in every aspect. But it is a fantasy. And has been. It should be against the rules for schools to offer elementary school level courses before a recruit signs. But they all do and the NCAA has never stopped it. The entire system is a farce so fans like you and I can either be perpetually po’d (like I have been for decades) or we can just shrug it off and move on (like I am now doing).

I do not blame any school who tries to better their teams by conducting business in a way that is allowed by the NCAA. Only foolish programs, like GT, have allowed their programs to die a slow death by following fake rules. We are the 1 guy standing at a crosswalk waiting for the green hand to pop up so we can cross. Everyone else has already crossed. We have allowed our program to go from a national brand top contender to an afterthought. We did that. GT did that. We did not react to changing landscapes over the past 70 years and here we are. All the schools around us have reacted and are still relevant. We are a fossil.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
Well its good to see we are at least trying to compete. This collective share the wealth thing is not going to work for the top level teams. The really elite players are not going to be satisfied with their "fair share" of the pot so this strategy will not work for the super teams.
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Even super teams have to have lineman that block for the skill position players. Football is a team sport so if half the team is mad that they are being paid one tenth of what the superstar is being paid that is going to lead to problems. 18, 19 and 20 year olds tend to easily have their feelings hurt.
 
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