I agree the divide will most likely only continue to grow. Could change, but will only do so if can interest wanes.
There's 4x to 5x more Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame fans in the ATL market than Tech fans.
Will (how much) will this change players focus? Previously (at Tech anyway) their two main focuses were (1) their sport (2) staying academically eligible, or less cynically, advancing towards a degree. Now there is a third priority with an "instant gratification" angle. Will athletes be able to hire agents that can negotiate and manage deals for them? Will coaches (realistically) have any ability to "limit" the amount of time an athlete spends (especially in season) chasing endorsement deals? Sure, the can't miss NFLers might play the "long game", understanding that in the end they can make potentially far more money by increasing their NFL prospects in college than by chasing "chump change" endorsement deals. But what about the marginal NFL prospects? Am I thinking about this right? It fundamentally sets up a "competition" for each individual between "will I put myself first or my team first". That competition has always existed in one form on another, but now it is elevated to new levels as a result of the "root of all evil" being introduced into the decision making process.
I think most if not all proposed state NIL laws strictly prohibit using NIL for recruiting.
Probably the end of college sports as we know it, money rules, it is the root of all evil
No offense but feels like I have heard that 4 or 5 times before. When kids started going pro before their 4 years people said it. When the one NCAA TV contract became individual conferences, when coaches started making more money than NFL coraches, and on and on. It will be different for sure but I’m not convinced it will be significant.
Probably the significant way for us would be negative.I just can't see how our players will atract much attention ( money) with our small fanbase and really total interest level unless we make a HUGE turn in success.
I don’t think this will play out the way normal advertising does. There are influencers on social media today that 99% of us couldn’t name raking in cash for who knows what reason. I don’t think opportunities will necessarily be about the local car dealerships.
www.newsnationnow.com
this article looks a couple of years ago but says $5K - 30K for less popular athletes and $400K for Trevor Lawrence
The good news is as part of official visits to GT CGC has the recruit sit with our NIL staff member. Seems he is trying to be out front in this area. Can’t hurt.
I’m not sure what it means but the 9-0 decision was based on earlier precedent which included the ruling that the NCAA still has the right to “preserve amateurism and the interests of higher education.”And now The Nine (otherwise known as the Supreme Court) has weighed in on the subject. See:
So long to the NCAA - Lawyers, Guns & Money
It takes a pretty special organization to lead even the current Supreme Court to rule unanimously that its most basic organizing principles are so outrageous that they have to be struck down: The Supreme Court handed a unanimous victory Monday to Division I college athletes in their fight...www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
I think Campos is right and Kavanaugh's concurrence will be the take of the whole court in future as other cases reach DC. This has been a long time coming and, while Congress could weigh in to save the NCAA's bacon, I'm pretty sure they won't.
People here have been talking a lot about transfers and "name and likeness" laws. Piffle. It's the Sherman Anti-Trust Act that will finally change college sports for good. With any kind of luck we'll get an NCAA that runs Div 3 programs and sports teams annexed by pro teams, like in Europe. Then we can take the extra money and use it to, you know, educate young people.
