Posted on 11/15/2024 2:24:39 AM PST by Enterprise
There's NIL money, and there's what the Michigan Wolverines are trying to get 2025 No. 1 recruit Bryce Underwood to join them next season in Ann Arbor.
Underwood, the 6-foot-3, 205-pound phenom who stars for Belleville in Michigan, has become an all-in target for the Wolverines' program.
According to On3, Michigan is willing to offer Underwood, who is committed to play for LSU next year, $10.5 million in NIL money over four years.
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It’s so wrong. These kids a lot off time do not have the maturity to handle that amount of money and not kill themselves. There should be no NIL money in college sports. Plus they should be made to earn a USEFUL degree, not basket weaving.
Many college athletes get injured and are unable to go pro, at least this way they get some money before that time
NIL is a fraud. It’s no more than a way for schools to buy athletes. It’s already out of control.
For Michigan it may take more than that 10.5M. Once the NCAA finishes their investigations and hits them with a multiyear post season ban, forfeitures of games, and scholarship cuts. Michigan may have to spend 50-60m to field a team that can’t play in bowl games. I’m not too sure these talented kids will want to paly for a team that isn’t eligible for the B1G championship most of their career.
Of course Michigan is all in; Brice needs a good agent and lawyer to navigate the rough waters.
No national championship team has ever fallen so far so fast. The Connor years were just a con; essentially the same level if not better in recruiting on the field this year and they are indecisive, are easily fooled - for the most part most this year’s team is last year’s team and they are solid, but lack confidence. Hell to the Cheaterines in just one season.
Doing Less with Moore.
wHoosier your Daddy, Michigan. (that’s a weekly one off one on thing this year).
Harbaugh was right, he ran a program by the “book” and Connor wrote.
If they’re getting paid, then they are pro. This will kill college football.
Also, what will this do to the schools themselves? And who is footing the bill?
And how are schools allowed to run a tax free pro league? College football is dead.
What is “NIL”?
Soon, the top tier, ‘so-called college players’ will be making enough money playing for a school, that they won’t even have to play for the NFL—as they will be financially set for life with the money they made in their so-called college playing years.
Name, Image, Likeness.
What is NIL? Everything to know about the NCAA rule allowing college athletes to get paid
"Student-athletes can be paid for their autograph, developing their own merchandise, promoting products or services, and event appearances due to their personal celebrity. Now, athletes are starting their own brands, endorsing brands, and becoming their own brands."
college athletes are pro’s now. NCPA, not NCAA.
My friends if they’re 18 years of age they have just as many rights to make money as you and I.
I think the NIL thing is for athletes doing commercials or supporting a particular product. This Michigan University trick is just buying an athlete for the team, that should not be allowed. I hope the people in charge will stop this abuse.
And if it isn’t an abuse then college football is over. Rich teams will get all the good athletes. A billionaire fan could fill a team with millionaire athletes.
Really looking forward to 11/30 when UM visits the horseshoe in Columbus. The Buckeyes are going to bring some serious payback to the Wolverines.
These programs have major money fans — the car dealership owner, local company that went national — who are BIG college football fans.
They used to do the $100 handshakes, envelopes of cash, provide them with a ‘loaner’ car, give them no-show jobs, get their parents a job, get their dad a house (USC for Reggie Bush). No they NIL it.
Kid could be injured. School I follow (Auburn) has seen that.
He’d be stupid not to grab $10 million bucks while he can. That’s life-changing money for him and his family.
College sports is OUT OF CONTROL. How about offering stipends for engineering and pre-med students?
I completely agree, but it is ridiculous to call them student athletes. Call them what they are, professional athletes.
They are hired mercenaries to attract white, suburban chicks to their schools. Daddy will gladly pay any amount for Muffin to be entertained on a Saturday. Just look at a shot of the squealers in the stands who don’t even know the rules. I will guarantee you that the players know not the school fight song or alma master nor do they attend classes.
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