Here is another excerpt
Rooney’s company helped broker a deal for two basketball players from Bronx, N.Y., who are considered two of the top sophomores in the country. Ian Jackson and Johnuel Fland last year signed a sponsorship deal with Spreadshop to make their own personal brands to be featured on the organization’s platform. According to a New York Post story, the two will be paid four figures per month. New York’s state high school association allows NIL deals and Rooney’s company works with Jackson and Fland on improving their “brands.”
A high school kid getting 1.4M for a marketing deal of his image, isn’t about the kid, its about the priority of their parents, or lack their of...
Mo’ money!
The Transfer Portal ruined College sports.
This means there is a fandom out there that consumes sports media on this kid. Who makes up that fandom? Is it grown men who are college and pro sports fans? If so, that is pathetic and they really need to re-evaluate themselves.
How dare they pay the kid $1.4million in a free society????
Brand?
Working on his brand?
What is he a steer?..................
Sarcasm or not?
This isn’t going to affect 99.9% of high school athletes.
It will foster the creation of high school super leagues with players likely going pro or more likely going to big time college programs.
And it will leave the vast majority of leagues without blue chip prospects for regular kids to play in. This is a good thing.
I hope. It’s a good thing. He don’t ban high school kids from working. This whole “except for athletes” thing has always been silly.
eliminate junior and high school sports...
separation of sports and state is in order...
Whether it's good or not, whose choice whould it be? The government's?
I swear, plenty of people here want to create thdeir prsonal version of Heaven on Earth, just as much as Socialists.
The same government who can tell you what activities your kid can't do, is the same government that can teach your kid about fisting without your consent.
“HE has a great brand from a social media standpoint”????
I thought they recruited athletic ability. !!!
Schools exist for learning as educated citizens form foundation of civilized society. High schools sports creat fodder for professional sports meat grinder at the local taxpayer expense. The process continues unabated in colleges and universities.
I really do not see how this expands the appeal of college sports or sports in general. If anything, many people have stopped watching and more will stop in the future. That opens the door for something else for people share a common experience. If you can figure out what that is, you could be on the ground floor of the next big thing.
WTactualF has happened to the country we grew up in?
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