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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jun 10, 2024 15:56:52 GMT -8
Soon the companies can hold contests for their employees to play in the Bowl games they sponsor, since all the promising student-Athletes employed by the schools to wear their uniforms during the regular season are going to opt out of the games anyway...... "The Goodyear Cotton Bowl featuring the top performing Goodyear Salespeople game" Well, if folks want to get technical, bowls actually began the NIL, pay for play crap. It was not much at first, but when bowls (the bigger the better) started giving out swag bags/baskets to each and every player and coach it was never questioned as being against being against NCAA rules. Over the decades the swag became more and more valuable items... some bowls not so much. But, basically it was a NIL based benefit. It made me sort of laugh when a big deal was made of OBJ handing out $$ (supposedly fake?) after the title game. Guess that perk was not allowed but the corporate swag was fine?! But, to your initial point... Bowls will probably just up the swag game to players, and with NIL seemingly having no limits/policing... what's to keep a bowl committee to give more to key players so they do not opt out? It became, is, and will be a sh&t show. The players and coaches on the 1942 Oregon State Rose Bowl team received a walking stick, three cartons of cigarettes, a pack of tobacco, a sack of biscuit flour, ties, suspenders, shorts, a box of silk stockings, two pairs of silk socks, and pillowcases. |
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Post by ftd on Jun 10, 2024 16:00:48 GMT -8
Well, if folks want to get technical, bowls actually began the NIL, pay for play crap. It was not much at first, but when bowls (the bigger the better) started giving out swag bags/baskets to each and every player and coach it was never questioned as being against being against NCAA rules. Over the decades the swag became more and more valuable items... some bowls not so much. But, basically it was a NIL based benefit. It made me sort of laugh when a big deal was made of OBJ handing out $$ (supposedly fake?) after the title game. Guess that perk was not allowed but the corporate swag was fine?! But, to your initial point... Bowls will probably just up the swag game to players, and with NIL seemingly having no limits/policing... what's to keep a bowl committee to give more to key players so they do not opt out? It became, is, and will be a sh&t show. The players and coaches on the 1942 Oregon State Rose Bowl team received a walking stick, three cartons of cigarettes, a pack of tobacco, a sack of biscuit flour, ties, suspenders, shorts, a box of silk stockings, two pairs of silk socks, and pillowcases. Silk stockings in 1942 was like gold and I am sure helped with 'social situations' |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jun 10, 2024 16:14:42 GMT -8
The players and coaches on the 1942 Oregon State Rose Bowl team received a walking stick, three cartons of cigarettes, a pack of tobacco, a sack of biscuit flour, ties, suspenders, shorts, a box of silk stockings, two pairs of silk socks, and pillowcases. Silk stockings in 1942 was like gold and I am sure helped with 'social situations' Almost all of the United States' silk came from the Far East in 1941. Seeing what was potentially coming, the Office of Production Management seized the nation's supply of raw silk on August 2, 1941. The price of a single pair of silk stockings (much less a "box") was about $10. Gold was $35.50 an ounce back then. So, silk was worth what about 1/7 the price of gold back then? Not bad at all! |
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