Can you imagine this board if we had a Nico Iamaleava situation?

Curly1918 18366 posts Joined: Aug 30, 2017

Posted 12:50 pm on Apr 14, 2025

Apparently, this began during last year's playoffs... and it wasn't just him!

The NIL/Portal is blowing up the sport.

Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/tennessee-players-threatened-to-sit-out-of-playoff-game-over-nil-including-iamaleava/ar-AA1CTga4?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Can you imagine this board if we had a Nico Iamaleava situation?Link Curly1918 12:50pm · 4/14/25
- Funny how the kids are getting the negative wrap when college's took Billions a year for decades. oldirish 4:36pm · 4/14/25
  - A guy who finished well outside the Top 20 statistically wants $4MM. jakers 4:02pm · 4/15/25
    - He wants to set the market for a top 25 QB, maybe top 5 will want 8 million for 13 gamesNT holybull101 5:12pm · 4/15/25
  - Absolutely. I'm less sympathetic to non-FB sports, but football is brutal. Get paid youngsters.NT LanceManion 11:25am · 4/15/25
  - Are the kids acting spoiled or is it the adults advising the kids acting spoiled and greedy? Clem 7:02am · 4/15/25
  - Truth. And they getting HITNT KWIRISH 11:42pm · 4/14/25
  - This ^^^^^NT NDQuebec 7:08pm · 4/14/25
- That’s a really poorly drafted NIL contract if it didn’t include the possibility of playoff games. Shadow_of_the_Dome 3:06pm · 4/14/25
  - How would this contract be enforced against the player? Curly1918 3:38pm · 4/14/25
    - Hmm. Fundamental question: can the contract go beyond name, image and likeness. NedoftheHill 4:07pm · 4/14/25
  - Exactly. Weird, huh? Imagine an NFL contract not contemplating the playoffs/Super Bowl.NT NedoftheHill 3:29pm · 4/14/25
- Congress needs to fix this now. AlbanyIRISH 1:57pm · 4/14/25
  - They should be able to fix this without government control or "help".NT THEISMANCARR 3:21pm · 4/14/25
    - Seems the only impetus to really fix this will be when it starts to fail to the point that it hurts TakethetrainKnute 12:19pm · 4/16/25
  - Delete.NT THEISMANCARR 3:20pm · 4/14/25
  - why should the govt get involved?NT WestCoastIrishFan 2:57pm · 4/14/25
    - Agreed. They can't fix their own budget, nor anyone else's. But... they do know how to waste $$NT oldirish 4:37pm · 4/14/25
  - Some rules would help. A complete set of rules would be best. ndphysics 2:07pm · 4/14/25
    - NCAA can't do it because the courts won't let them. That's how this all started.NT NedoftheHill 3:19pm · 4/14/25
      - So we either need a collective agreement between 2 parties or some legislation which sounds silly.NT ndphysics 3:57pm · 4/14/25
        
        I think that is right. Anti-trust exception/collective bargaining....? NedoftheHill 4:15pm · 4/14/25
        
        Either way the whole free agent go to the highest bidder each season shit needs ndphysics 7:24pm · 4/14/25
        
        The NIL folks need to stop it by contract. NedoftheHill 12:29am · 4/15/25
        
        "Nico Iamaleava signed a four-year deal worth $8 million with Spyre Sports Group, the NIL collective TakethetrainKnute 4:22pm · 4/15/25
        
        I get the holding out part but should not be able to walk away and sign ndphysics 5:44pm · 4/15/25
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- If he were a superstar, the consensus would have been to pay him ndunabomber 1:27pm · 4/14/25
- One man's leverage is another man's BS. This can all be addressed through contracts.NT LanceManion 1:07pm · 4/14/25

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