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.
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.
What is “NIL”?
college athletes are pro’s now. NCPA, not NCAA.
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.
College sports is OUT OF CONTROL. How about offering stipends for engineering and pre-med students?
What is NIL? It is an apt acronym for these low IQ people.
This is going to make alumni and their money unimportant. This will make alumni feel only OLD. No more kissing the old wretch.
I’m amused that this kid will make more money as a “student” over 4 years than many of his professors will make over their entire career.
College athletics were once an activity for actual students that provided them with an opportunity to learn actual life lessons outside the classroom while representing the university; the system has degenerated into a means for those schools to whore themselves for TV money, using many kids who have little or no interest in what should be the core function of the place - an actual education. Of course at most of those schools actual education is secondary to DEI concerns as well.
Schools at the Power 5 level should abandon all pretenses that these programs have anything to do with eduction, and just admit they are the minor leagues for football and basketball. Forget about admission requirements and class attendance; just continue to pay the kids to wear the school colors for up to 4 years, and eschew the hypocrisy that’s staining their names as educational enterprises.
Yes, many will never need to go pro. They ARE pro—while pretending to be college students.
I knew right away that NIL would lead to this mess.
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Who says they’re not pro? The illusion of amateurism in college sports has been a flat lie since the 60s, and toxic for just as long. It’s a billion dollar industry PAY THEM ALL.
This is ruining college football.
Great for Mr. Underwood.
He should work the best deal he can.