Posted on 07/01/2021 1:43:11 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne, who checks in with over 1.1 million Instagram followers and 3.9 million TikTok followers, might end up being the biggest winner in the Name, Image, Likeness sweepstakes that officially went into law across over a dozen states at midnight Thursday morning.
And Dunne was sitting there, ready to cash in without jeopardizing her college scholarship. “NIL rules change tomorrow… let’s get to work,” Dunne tweeted Wednesday, knowing she was about to make a life-changing fortune when the clock struck midnight.
Sports business reporter Darren Rovell has predicted that Dunne could sign deals this week worth $100k, but that appears to be a very low estimate. Rovell soon corrected his estimate and went up to the million-dollar level for Dunne. We’re talking about an athlete who walked onto campus for the first time with a social media following that was second only to Shaq’s son. What’s all that worth?
Benjamin Oduro, a talent booker with International Talent Agency LLC, tells WBRZ in Baton Rouge the money for athletes like Dunne could pile up fast. “I’ve seen contracts around $150,000 for two tweets a week for a year, but I’ve also seen clients receive around $1,500 per tweet,” Oduro told the station.
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She’s your wife, you ought to know.
When was it ever not that way here?
The “not guilty” nonsense is worse than adolescent.
Re: 92 - I hear ‘ya.
I’d suggest that the people who make comments like you noted are trash, and their comments can be informative of how they were raised and how women may have been treated.
LSU gymnastics has a great fan base, so they may have broken even if they did not make a profit. This year, they would have struggled due to Covid restrictions. But for the past 7 or 8 years, I’d be surprised if LSU did not break even or better. Bama, UGA, LSU, Florida, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, and a few others have big followings.
Hahahaha my wife would most certainly roll her eyes at me...:)
The older we get, the more they roll!
Ahhh...”Marketing”!
Heh, at least until the next one comes around...:)
I think you misunderstood me, but in this case, that is on me.
I was talking about “pie” in the sense that Leftists do...they feel that a pie is a finite amount, and you can only get pie by taking it from someone else.
We tend, as conservatives, to believe that wealth can be created out of thin air, basically create a new “pie” instead of taking someone else’s.
IQ?
:)
Okay they broke even. Not the huge profit everyone talks about.
Nice list of unintended consequences!
I’m sure the SC mulled it all over and thought it would be a great idea allow this half-baked plan to continue.
The NCAA is probably in a frenzied panic right now trying to figure out how to address your many and very likely issues that are looking like a light .... or train .... at the end of the tunnel.
Let the mayhem ensue ......
(for all of the nitpickers: I never said I agree or disagree that the athletes deserve or don’t deserve compensation - I’m simply acknowledging that srmanuel has pointed out some very likely landmines ahead)
My point all along is the athletes deserve some form of compensation but until some rules are in place if that ever happens, it will be chaos, some will rightfully make a ton of money, most will make nothing and a lot of people will get hurt by this ruling.
I’m a UF Gator Alum and fan, already I’ve seen a group of current players are already selling their own merchandise which is fine but if you’ve ever owned a business you need to be well aware of laws and regulations for setting up a retail business I wonder how many 18-20 year kids know that ??
BTW, if I wonder if those kids know anything about sales taxes and how to pay them or file a sales tax return and at the end of the year there is this organization called the IRS that makes the NCAA look like Boy Scouts
I’m pretty much where you are - not sure if it’s for the same reason or not. I’ve quit watching almost all sports mainly because, at 72 y/o, what am I going to see?
Football: Circus catches by wide receivers .... oh, wait .... they’re wearing flypaper gloves that allow them to catch a football coming 70mph and catching it with the tips of 3 of their fingers ... uh huh, ok.
NBA/College BB: Jump step? Well, that makes it ok by rule to travel so that what the recruiter saw during summer AAU translates over to actual game situations.
Also NBA/College BB: Is that a basketball game or mugging? Is a guard allowed to dribble or hacking his wrists while he dribbles OK now. How about lowering your shoulder into your opponent, down in the paint, knocking him backwards by 2 feet and then making a 3 footer? Wow .... not.
Or MLB: Pitchers: 6 innings and your done (unless you’re throwing a no hitter) and then 3 different relievers over the next 3 innings (except in the Chicago Cubs case - the just had a combined no hitter - 4 pitchers .... good grief). Baseball used to be situational now it is cookie cutter and therefore more boring than before.
There just isn’t anything new other than athletes run a little faster, jump a little higher, and rule changes that make the games a clown show.
For the nitpickers: I’m a curmudgeon and don’t care if you think today’s sports are great - I don’t - but you do you.
I was an avid NFL fan as a younger man.
I used to watch basketball and hockey, and played hockey in men's leagues after I got out of the USN, but as I got older, it was just NFL. I began watching avidly when my family returned the the USA in 1972, and up until last year, I defended the NFL on these forums and watched it.
Boy, was I ever wrong.
I was operating under the erroneous assumption that the clubs and the league were not wholly onboard with this disrespect to our flag and anthem and the embrace of racism with backing Black Lives Matter. Last year fully showed just how on board they were, and now this year, they are into the mainstreaming and overt promotion of homosexuality in the league.
I came to understand that a large majority of sports figures (particularly in the NFL) have an enormous amount of contempt for people like me who would buy tickets and merchandise to pay their salary. They felt free to insult people like me with my values, and are so cocksure that they feel they can openly express their contempt, and we would keep buying tickets and merchandise to pay them.
They arrogantly think they can piss on my head, feel contempt for me, insult me openly, and then just hold out their hand for me to obediently place my hard-earned money into it as a gift to them as they spit in my face.
Doesn't work for me.
I believe this is a choice people will have to make for themselves. I've made my choice.
Precisely!
Sick morons!!
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