The talent is already being hoarded,
These new rules may well ruin things, but it won't be because certain teams get to hoard all of the talent.
Link: https://sports.yahoo.com/why-ncaa-should-embrace-free-market-for-college-athletes-in-wake-of-california-state-bill-206-000714957.html
Paying players is unnecessary given the scholarship, but it is frankly un-American to prevent somebody from being paid for endorsement deals.
Once this comes to fruition, there will be many wealthy and influential ND alums offering top dollar for the best athletes in the country to play for Notre Dame. This will not be a problem for Notre Dame. Notre Dame football will benefit tremendously. I just wish Frank Eck were still alive to see this. He would have had a field day.
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It's a never ending river of cash. It's play money man. Especially in this context.
Successful alums so we are golden!
How does tOSU endowment compare to ND? It doesn’t. Texas, Michigan and TAMU would though. But College Station and Ann Arbor are in very small markets.
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Notre Dame has greater national reach than any program, and thus top players gain the most recognition and could command big fees for endorsements or other use of their image. Instead of endorsing Meijers, they will appear with Coca Cola, Amazon, Under Armor and Madden Football. I can see that being a recruiting pitch. Programs such as Purdue or Northwestern will be at a disadvantage. Surely, the Admin would not deny the players this opportunity, particularly if the money has to be held in a trust account until they leave the program.
an, LA or anywhere in the SE than their local hero? Endorsements at the college level will be very localized; so localized it could very well hurt ND if comparing apples to apples.
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in Columbus. Few people in NYC care about Justin Fields. ND will gain bigly though just because of Chicago. USC, UCLA and ND seem like the big winners.
Players in Austin are celebs. I am pretty sure Ian Book could walk around NY or Chicago and barely get noticed.
This is going to be local car dealerships and restaurant chains that will be paying these kids.
Now what we don't know, is how the creative ways to funnel payments through other businesses will work.
For example, Dan Hesse, (no idea how much Dan Hesse cares about football, but let's pretend he does) would he be willing to throw the local car dealer a couple hundred thousand to "invest" in "Advertising"? He certainly wouldn't want a 18 year kid he doesn't know as a spokesman for his company.
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Actually throw them in a commercial or two.
What will be interesting as well, is fans creating Shell companies and starting Kickstarter campaigns simply to pay players. Sounds crazy, but for those of us that have lived in the south, it's not crazy.
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Kids will still get paid more (and treated better) at Bama and OSU than anything they'd see from a minor league squad/environment.
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to maximize their endorsement dollars. I do not think this idea helps support the "ideal" of the student athlete.
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I live in California and like some of you thought this wasn't well thought out--but one of the legislators who pushed this and who I happen to know pretty well said this is really about spurring national action by the NCAA. In that respect, it's already work..At least ten states are introducing legislation--some of it more aggressive than California. The NCAA won't be able to stop this.
Link: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/fair-pay-to-play-act-states-bucking-ncaa-to-let-athletes-be-paid-for-name-image-likeness/
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A car dealer is going to pay a usc phenom big bucks to hawk his autos.
Potential for booster abuse is insane.
Ego for playing time and stats will downgrade team concept.
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owned by the booster club and get paid 100K each, plus 10K for a sack or TD, probably roster bonuses too
Heard an interesting stat yesterday. Remember how huge Johnny Manziel was during his Heisman season? The guy was everywhere. Total Texas A&M jersey sales that year....total, not just Johnny's jersey....$60K. The impact of allowing players to collect on their name/image/likeness is a lot less than people expect.
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the $250K they were promised was really on $120K after taxes and payouts to agents.
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