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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That is a really good question and something that will have to be worked out. I don’t think the universities can pull scholarships already granted without looking punitive. But who knows about future grants?
Prior to these laws going into effect, college athletes were not permitted to make money off their Name, Image, or Likeness, in other words they could not get paid for making public appearances, making commercials, endorsing products, etc...basically they could not be professionals.....their schools could promote them all they wanted and make huge sums of money but the individual athlete was denied....
Now, any athlete in one of these states with the new laws can basically be a professional athlete while playing college sports.....
I have mixed feelings on this, should college athletes get paid for their name, image and likeness ?? From a philosophical standpoint absolutely they should....but in reality, there will be tons on unintended consequences...
There is jealousy in professional sports when one player gets a better contract than someone else, what will happen when Joe Stud High School Athlete right out of high school signs a huge endorsement contract and makes more money than anyone else on the team..
What happens when some players make nothing because they don’t really play but are on the team..
What happens when agents get involved and start influencing the players and coaches no longer have impact...
what happens when agents who are crooks and thieves start scamming the players...
What happens when the player fail to pay taxes on the endorsements
Then from a recruiting standpoint, it’s going to be open season on the top players....
For example, in a football crazy state like Alabama, I’m sure all the prominent boosters will be lined up to make offers to potential recruits of all kinds of money to attend Alabama, to some degree they are already doing that, but now that it’s legal it will explode...
She’s got volleyball legs, not gymnast legs.
She doesn’t look like much of a gymnast in the Olympic fashion, other than she might be somewhat of a contortionist. Her boobs are too big and her thighs are too small. Does she compete? Is she a circus performer?
Yes, and too much in the chest department.
See post #25
From Wikipedia she’s been a so so. Never won. Her good days are behind her now simply due to her age and body maturing.
I wish her well and hopefully she’ll make millions. Go Tigers
In theory I agree, but it’s going to ruin college sports basically we will have professional sports in college.
There will unintended consequences that will create one major issue after another in college sports....
Agents will get involved, players might sit out for a better deal, players will be jealous of each other...
Just think of all the issues in professional sports, except magnified by 100 with 17-18 year old athletes being involved...
I can’t watch sports anymore anyway, so as far as I am concerned, they can all crash and burn in a bloody commercial heap, and I hope they do.
If they take down colleges too, power to them. I’ll root for them.
I am sick to death of it all. And I used to enjoy sports. 50 years of avidly watching NFL as a fan, and it turns my stomach and makes me angry to even think of it.
College sports are more of the exact same. The only reason I didn’t condemn college sports is because some young people might get into college who otherwise might not have had a chance.
Now they are professionals. And I view them the same as all professionals in sports now.
So, I may end up enjoying the spectacle as much as you might, but for different reasons. Leftists love their pie they all want a piece of, that much is true.
Dunne at the 2017 U.S. National Championships.
You’re forgetting about Title IX, which is still in place. Many universities with mediocre sports programs have opted to disband their football teams if they don’t have the money for the lesser programs. But universities just cannot cancel programs they want willy-nilly. They have to factor gender equity.
“If your sport can’t generate enough of a gate, it may be gone.”
I’m trying to figure out how that could be a bad thing?
I apologize for muddying the water-that was indeed a picture of the Kournokova, not the gymnast in question.
That’s why we don’t have SEC Hockey, which I think would be awesome.
The unintended consequqnces of this.
If a state school that cost (paying the student athlete) will made up by the state taxpayer ! It will increasw the current loss that big time athletics incur. See the link below. The state taxpayers will fork over more ! Who thought they were paying for a higher education.
The schools will eventually be forced to divest themselves of big time athletics.
Take aways from the linked article below:
“....
According to the NCAA, among the 65 autonomy schools in Division I, only 25 recorded a positive net generated revenue in 2019.
Among those reporting a net positive, the median profit per school was $7.9 million.
And among the 40 autonomy schools reporting a negative net revenue, the median loss was $15.9 million.
In other words, the majority of universities in the nation’s top athletic conferences
— the schools you see on TV every weekend competing for national championships
— lost money through their sports programs to the tune of approximately $16 million each.
............”
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/do-college-sports-make-money/
The next shoe to fall will be the unionization of graduate students. They’ll demand “comparable wages”
rather the their current “way-below-minimumwage” wages. (Remember we are not counting tuition wavers as income!) Yes I know graduate students are essentially academic serfs. (I was one!) Something should be done to remove their “serfdom”. It will cost money and the taxpayers will pay. However before that happens colleges and universities need a lot of other fiscal reform and they need to learn what ROI means !
Rocketing up higher education costs even further !
The loss of big time sports is probably a good thing in the long run.
Hot chick privilege. When people come to terms with the reality of human nature it is much less frustrating.
Trashy comment, but she deserved it, right?
Grow up.
Hm. That pose and those looks will be hear meal ticket for a while, at least.
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