Would you be willing to accept a spike on ND FB tickets to pay for the NIL slush fund?
That's what Tennessee is going to do to their fans starting next year.
There will be a 10% bump on all sports tickets known as a "talent fee."
Oh, and by the way, there will be an extra 4.5% tacked on for football tickets.
Enjoy the game, suckas!
Replies to: Would you be willing to accept a spike on ND FB tickets to pay for the NIL slush fund?
Heck, yeah, I would. Why not? What’s an extra $10-20?
I want ND to compete at the highest level.
I want the very best for ND student/athletes, and that includes compensation!
Come on, people pay for all kinds of stupid stuff pumpkin spice lattes, tattoos, Mickey Mouse crap, etc.
don’t you want ND to be the very best? That’s not worth $10? Come on?!?!
I think there should be “donation boxes” at the stadium & JACC, the pocket change will addd up.
I’d also like to see the round up option at the bookstore & ND family establishments, like Rocco’s, Martin’s, Linebacker, Belmont where you you can round up your bill total to support the collective.
The mother Teresa days of college sports is over, like Gretzky skate to where the puck is going..” we aren’t going back to 1975.
It’s a brave, new opportunistic world! Lean into it. Fortune favors the bold!
Be the Yankees, not the white sox!
Right on!!!
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You know it, TC 🍀🍀🍀
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$100 per game on top of your season tickets and donations.
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"Donation boxes" outside our stadium with Salvation Army bell ringers. How cool would that be?
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Heck yeah, in little Leppy Outfits! I like it!
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Me? No F'ing way. Imagine the booing you're gonna get then?
It's not the ticket cost per se (although that has already gotten too high). I preferred college to pros (which I also watch much less frequently) and never wanted to see college become that.
I (long ago) personally favored more enforcement to help bolster STUDENT-athletes. Less games, etc. A true NFL minor league for players who wanted to hone their skills but who did not want to pretend to study and attend class. The new system is going from sucks to even worse every day ($1,000,000 for Riley Leonard?)
$$$ win out, per SOP, but I am losing more and more interest by the day...
Pro ball is more boring than college because the fans are not going wild with their loyalty to their
own team. College ball will never be boring to us because we compete with the best and we have a reasonable shot at being the best of the best college teams. IVY League equivalent, who the hell cares and no TV coverage probably. Doesn't that tell you something?
"Own team"? Contract minor league players with no or a very tenuous connection to the schools is...
...where this is going.
Multi-millionaires not attending any classes, cruising in their lambos, and holding "freak offs" at their off-campus rooftop pads?
It will become so seedy that a Catholic university, that used to take great pride in the Football graduation rate, will have to get off at one of the exits.
I get that you don't like it. I don't like it...though maybe for different reasons...but I believe it is coming eventually. Sorry to say...
Paul Finebaum weighs in...
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Link: Paul Finebaum rips Tennessee adding 10-percent talent fee on tickets: 'Utterly disgraceful'
I'm getting "404 Error"...but he says it "makes him sick to his stomach"...
Used to not care for Finebaum all that much...but certainly agree with him here.
Relinked to the MSN repost. Try it now.
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All good. Thanks.
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And Finebaum is a Tennessee alum.
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Welcome to the new world of college football
Programs will raise the money one way or another. In a way, I respect Tennessee's transparency.
Tennessee AD Danny White - son of Kevin - is an ND grad and was a walk on basketball player for the Irish. He is the highest paid AD in the country.
I would not pay extra. I'm barely hanging on now as it is.
Fans feel they have the right to boo now days because they no longer look at the players as amateur college athletes. More like hired guns, NIL, and transfers. Then all this idiotic conference alignment and the destruction of long time rivalry games.
I don’t boo. I go to the games & support the team.
I don’t know maybe it’s where I was raised. But when ND played football, you went to the game or watched it on TV. It’s in me.
I think college football players have talent & it’s fun to watch college football, I think they should get a piece of the pie. It’s not like game tickets are free or the television broadcasts are commercial free. This could be their best shot to make some money…I’m fine with them getting that.
That’s just my 2 cents, if others feel differently that’s cool too.
But, imho, college athletics for the participants is time consuming, they should be compensated for their time & talent.
Maybe a priest or nun instead of Salvation Army
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Our new prez, Fr. Bob Dowd ("Toad" look-alike from "American Grafitti"), would be perfect.
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"Alms for the poor...skill position players"?
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