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Post by chinmusic on Aug 11, 2022 7:41:05 GMT -8
In Dallas, SMU's Boulevard Collective announced they will pay 100 SMU football and basketball players $36,000 annually or about $3.5 millionm total.
In Lubbock, Texas Tech's Matador Club Collective will pay their football players $25,000 annually.
Texas has joined Oregon and North Carolina in the use of an online NIL marketplace that will put players in touch with business enterprises and others who wish to compensate players for NIL.
Play for pay is here.
It will never trickle down to college baseball, right?
Did the Beavers lose any touted transfers in the Portal this summer?
What do you think?
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Post by mallardhunter on Aug 15, 2022 8:24:40 GMT -8
General thought is that it is good and about time that players were given some comp for what in reality is a full-time plus job.
There is a lot of handwringing because the egregious examples are nightmares of accountability and speculative to the extreme. And combined with the transfer portal brings issues to the fore. But there are a lot of guys on rosters who deserve something and certainly should never have been restricted by NCAA rules from getting a side job or using their own name.
It may trickle to baseball in really small ways. CBB is and always will be a niche sport. Rosters are big and it is hard for players to become true stars at the college level.
I think it likely for players to pick up an endorsement here or there and maybe the top pitching prospects will start to get some offers to forego going pro if they are 3/4/5 round picks.
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Post by chinmusic on Aug 17, 2022 13:40:58 GMT -8
NCAA rules prohibit college athletes from participating in any activity relative to their sport beyond 20 hours per week - that is not a full time job. In exchange for their participation in athletic competition, they may receive an athletic scholarship that could include tuition, books, lodging and training table with a monthly stipend of something like $600+. I believe PAC-12 schools were recently working on a program that would reward a student-athlete an additional $6k annually for basically, staying academically eligible.
Nil makes sense under rules of reason and common sense, but that isn't where we are right now. As now constructed, it is ripe for abuse. Unless things change with NIL, a level playing field may become a thing of the past. And college baseball players picking up an endorsement here and there? You would have to be incredibly naive to labor under the impression that's where we are headed.
Recently LSU landed 3 of the top-5 players in the transfer portal and 4 of the top-15, according to Baseball America's Top-15. Coincidence ? or did Tommy White, Paul Skenes, Thatcher Hurd and Christian Little all decide Jay Johnson is a baseball genius, the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Alley was an ideal living location, or the Baton Rouge weather with it's heat and humidity were appealing?
It certainly couldn't have been big NIL money, maybe it was those "endorsements here and there."
Maybe it was the Gumbo?
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Post by jdogge on Aug 18, 2022 22:40:48 GMT -8
General thought is that it is good and about time that players were given some comp for what in reality is a full-time plus job. There is a lot of handwringing because the egregious examples are nightmares of accountability and speculative to the extreme. And combined with the transfer portal brings issues to the fore. But there are a lot of guys on rosters who deserve something and certainly should never have been restricted by NCAA rules from getting a side job or using their own name. It may trickle to baseball in really small ways. CBB is and always will be a niche sport. Rosters are big and it is hard for players to become true stars at the college level. I think it likely for players to pick up an endorsement here or there and maybe the top pitching prospects will start to get some offers to forego going pro if they are 3/4/5 round picks. The problem is that, sooner or later, state legislatures will ask "Why are the taxpayers footing the bill for semi-pro teams to use state-supported/constructed/maintained facilities?" That's when the nightmare hits and we will no longer see "college" sports. |
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Post by beaverstever on Aug 19, 2022 7:28:06 GMT -8
General thought is that it is good and about time that players were given some comp for what in reality is a full-time plus job. There is a lot of handwringing because the egregious examples are nightmares of accountability and speculative to the extreme. And combined with the transfer portal brings issues to the fore. But there are a lot of guys on rosters who deserve something and certainly should never have been restricted by NCAA rules from getting a side job or using their own name. It may trickle to baseball in really small ways. CBB is and always will be a niche sport. Rosters are big and it is hard for players to become true stars at the college level. I think it likely for players to pick up an endorsement here or there and maybe the top pitching prospects will start to get some offers to forego going pro if they are 3/4/5 round picks. The problem is that, sooner or later, state legislatures will ask "Why are the taxpayers footing the bill for semi-pro teams to use state-supported/constructed/maintained facilities?" That's when the nightmare hits and we will no longer see "college" sports. As a taxpayer, I’m wondering this. Their non-profit status just means they spend everything they bring in, which just means they system enriches some very specific people and entities. |
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