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<blockquote data-quote="bucknellbison31" data-source="post: 982970" data-attributes="member: 6654"><p>I totally respect anyone who decides to contribute to our NIL initiatives, and I appreciate their commitment to helping Tech Athletics succeed. However, donating to an NIL collective is a line I'll personally never cross. I gladly give money to fund new facilities or provide new resources to Tech athletes — in other words, anything that would improve our student-athletes' academic or athletic quality of life. But I want no part in helping the school indirectly pay players. Ignoring all the exclusive student-athlete benefits at Tech (their own dining hall, beautiful facilities, tutors, merchandise, stipends, etc.), they get compensated with a Georgia Tech education/degree, which can be worth millions over the course of their lifetime. That's what college athletics is about — academics — and I won't abandon that principle just because the landscape is shifting. If a player can get Rocky Mountain Pizza or Park Tavern to pay them for advertising or something like that, then more power to 'em; but they aren't employees (nor should they be), so the Institute shouldn't pay them.</p><p></p><p>Again, I don't hold it against anyone who donates to our NIL programs. I always contribute to Tech in any way I can — just not that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bucknellbison31, post: 982970, member: 6654"] I totally respect anyone who decides to contribute to our NIL initiatives, and I appreciate their commitment to helping Tech Athletics succeed. However, donating to an NIL collective is a line I'll personally never cross. I gladly give money to fund new facilities or provide new resources to Tech athletes — in other words, anything that would improve our student-athletes' academic or athletic quality of life. But I want no part in helping the school indirectly pay players. Ignoring all the exclusive student-athlete benefits at Tech (their own dining hall, beautiful facilities, tutors, merchandise, stipends, etc.), they get compensated with a Georgia Tech education/degree, which can be worth millions over the course of their lifetime. That's what college athletics is about — academics — and I won't abandon that principle just because the landscape is shifting. If a player can get Rocky Mountain Pizza or Park Tavern to pay them for advertising or something like that, then more power to 'em; but they aren't employees (nor should they be), so the Institute shouldn't pay them. Again, I don't hold it against anyone who donates to our NIL programs. I always contribute to Tech in any way I can — just not that way. [/QUOTE]
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