“ Why should the federal government care about the Iowa State football team.”
The whole NIL is perverse and corrupt .
Yes Ted is working to shore up his standing here in Iowa with his involvement.
But the system is sick.
I do not know much about the college sport particulars. That said, I feel the rules, both in-game and at the NCAA and the conferences administration, will continue to be bastardized by media/internet money and gambling interests.
My interest has fallen to almost nothing, as everything seems to be orchestrated. For the players, school spirit has taken a big backseat to player fame, fortune and pro ambitions.
Why? Because you find it sick that young men can make money?
Perverse? Corrupt???
Do you try and get the best deal you can for your services and talents??? Or do you just take what is given to you??
Why shouldn’t college football players who bring in tens of millions each year to their respective programs have that same opportunity to get the best deal for themselves????
How is it perverse or corrupt for an individual to make money on their own name, image and likeness?
I would think a system that prevented an individual from making money on their own name, image and likeness, while at the same time profiting billions from that individual’s efforts, is perverse.
“But the system is sick.”
The system isn’t sick, it’s enabling. And it is being treated like a business rather than an after school sport it started with in grammar school. There’s a lot of money goes into recruiting players to make a program that can go to bowls and earn funds for the conference and the college. And it is a competitive business which has been going on for many years. If a player is promised the moon and the staff that made the commitment bails, look for the rats to look elsewhere with all the defined eligibility. Nothing new here. This is old hat. And if they can get a better deal at the recruiting college, they will be out of there fast enough to leave a vacuum.
Didn’t you ever see Rudy when Ara Parseghian promised Rudy a start and then resigned? And Dan Devine, in the movie, swore he wouldn’t get one. That was not the truth however as in his recent autobiography Simply Devine, the retired coach tells a different story. He writes that it was his idea all along to dress Rudy for the last home game of his college career and also to play him. He says the reason it didn’t come across that way is because the screenwriter told him that the only way the plot would work was if Devine became the heavy. He says he agreed to go along to help out Ruettiger, whom he calls a friend.
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