Posted on 07/05/2021 9:35:34 AM PDT by conservative98
Master P’s son is cashing in big on the new era of college sports.
The rapper’s son, Hercy Miller, is capitalizing on the new rules allowing NCAA athletes to make money off their name, image and likeness beginning this month. Headed to Tennessee State to play college basketball as a freshman next season, Miller inked a deal with technology company Web Apps America that is worth $2 million over four years, he and his father told TMZ Sports.
“It’s incredible,” Master P said. “This is going to change the way college athletes want to stay in school. … This is like playing in the pros now.”
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Now drop the scholastic requirements.
This will quickly turn into a disaster, with injuries and lawsuits plus the lawsuits from sponsors who get dropped to "go pro" early, etc.
This will be fun to watch colleges get sued by sponsors over not protecting the players, the trainers will be scrutinized, etc. Couldn't happen to better industry.
Enough pros now. Well...college sports killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Who is gonna root for someone who is only in it for themself? Oh, yeah I play for Tecumseh Tech. Great school...where’s my paycheck?
Tennessee State Is a college? Dude! The kid is not going to the NBA if he is playing at Tenn. State.
WTH is a Master P? Some kind of lock? A new name for self gratification?
Never heard of this person before today.
I think it’s a bad idea to pay college athletes. They need to focus on their education first, sports after that.
That’s it - no more college sports for me.
I wonder what will happen when a coach decides to cut a player for misconduct and the player has a multi million dollar endorsement contract? Of course, that won’t happen and we’ll end up with college felon football league.
What were his parents thinking when they gave him that name?
But will they leave school with much in the way of knowledge?
I'd wager not likely in most cases, if they're already millionaires.
They should have named him “Sue”.
I am of two minds with this.
The schools have long been making monstrous coin from their athletic programs, most especially when they have a famed for their supposed talent person playing on their team. I have no issue with the money being made, but the actual resource (the talented athlete) getting NOTHING while taking a huge gamble with his very future by being involved with so many sports that carry a large “danger” factor seems less than equitable.
The risk is all on the athlete, but he cannot gain a plug nickel for the potential disaster being courted? That’s not right.
The reason the athlete has a scholarship in the first place is to generate interest and attract money for the school.
Then there is the level of actual education the talented athlete actually receives. We ALL know of folks that can’t understand how a chequebook works but make stupid amounts of money, which they fritter away because they were never taught what money is and what it does. They just see dollars and think that it will never end.
Honestly, I don’t know what to think of this mess.
Perhaps collegiate athletics should be returned to their rightful place as healthy avocations and hobbies for the students to dabble in during their non-academic hours.
They’ve ruined the NBA, NFL and NASCAR so why not college sports? I don’t have to watch any sports.
Very wealthy rapper. Not JayZ type of money but more than your average Hollywood Celebrity
And how will this play with the rest of the team? And the coaches?
Will be fun to watch the fallout, etc.
—”Then there is the level of actual education the talented athlete actually receives.”
A close friend that was All-State Basketball, played four years and drafted into the pros, #666 or similar, and did not go pro because he did not feel he had the chops and would not last. But had a solid job offer and took it.
On his first day at school, he meets the head coach and shows him his class schedule... The coach says here is a list of instructors that are “friends” of the team.
A few classes were mostly no show.
Going into his final semester he was unsure if he would graduate with his class?
In one of his weaker classes, the Prof announces that a friend had been in a serious auto accident and is in need of blood.
Any donating blood will receive extra help in the class.
And that is how he graduated on time.
Maybe the top football schools have been making huge coin from college football. Yet Tenn. State?! I seriously doubt it. Many times the smaller schools are loosing money. And the kid at Tenn. State plays basketball.
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