Can you imagine this board if we had a Nico Iamaleava situation?
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
Replies to: Can you imagine this board if we had a Nico Iamaleava situation?
Funny how the kids are getting the negative wrap when college's took Billions a year for decades.
Granted, the kids are acting spoiled. However, they are doing the work and the colleges have benefited more monetarily and still do.
A guy who finished well outside the Top 20 statistically wants $4MM.
He's getting $2MM. In every quarterback statistic that matters, he was nowhere near the top. And he was at his worst in the biggest games. He then held out of team activities and shopped himself around looking for a 200% raise.
I do get your point about the players simply doing what they're being incentivized to do, but this case is different, in my opinion.
He wants to set the market for a top 25 QB, maybe top 5 will want 8 million for 13 games
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Absolutely. I'm less sympathetic to non-FB sports, but football is brutal. Get paid youngsters.
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Are the kids acting spoiled or is it the adults advising the kids acting spoiled and greedy?
Either way, it's an ugly look.
Won't be surprised if, in a few years, this kid and the Rashada kid are filing for bankruptcy because their advisors took everything and ran when the money train stops.
Truth. And they getting HIT
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This ^^^^^
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That’s a really poorly drafted NIL contract if it didn’t include the possibility of playoff games.
Shame on both sides for inept contract drafting.
How would this contract be enforced against the player?
I suppose that all payments would only be made AFTER the playoffs and none would be owned if there was any breach.
This is only off the top of my head and I don't draft these kinds of agreements. I'm sure there are a ton of other enforcement clauses that could be drafted.
Hmm. Fundamental question: can the contract go beyond name, image and likeness.
Can a booster pay the player to show up to a game and play in it.
I was thinking NIL value (the value being sold by the player and supposedly purchased by the booster) would increase with playing time...especially in playoff games. So, you could structure payments based on that in addition to just showing up in an ad. But, I don't know.
More fundamental: Can a third party outright pay a player to perform in an otherwise amateur sport? If not, why not?
I assume these answers are out there, but I haven't looked into them.
Exactly. Weird, huh? Imagine an NFL contract not contemplating the playoffs/Super Bowl.
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Congress needs to fix this now.
The "representation" most of these players have are straight-up clowns, with zero law, accounting, or finance background.
Players asking for more money before the playoffs start is unfuckingbelievable.
They should be able to fix this without government control or "help".
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Seems the only impetus to really fix this will be when it starts to fail to the point that it hurts
...the big programs/conferences.
My concern is that it may be too late at that point.
We will all see...
Delete.
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why should the govt get involved?
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Agreed. They can't fix their own budget, nor anyone else's. But... they do know how to waste $$
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Some rules would help. A complete set of rules would be best.
I know players aren’t unionized, so the rules would be put in place by whom? Can’t be the universities but I can’t see the NCAA doing it either.
NCAA can't do it because the courts won't let them. That's how this all started.
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So we either need a collective agreement between 2 parties or some legislation which sounds silly.
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I think that is right. Anti-trust exception/collective bargaining....?
The schools could form a professional league to employ the players, and try to qualify for the same type of legal status that one of the other professional leagues have.
Eventually, the schools will just be licensing their logos, and sharing in profits......and then "college football" will cease to exist. It will just be another professional sport league.
Either way the whole free agent go to the highest bidder each season shit needs
To be controlled. This is far worse than professional sports leagues where a contract bonds players and teams for a defined term which is almost never 1 year.
The whole moving around every season crap has to stop or be severely curtailed.
The NIL folks need to stop it by contract.
Then if ND locks in a player for 4 years, another school would have to buy out his contract by paying ND.
Maybe that is what is happening, but it seems like they are offering 1 year contracts
"Nico Iamaleava signed a four-year deal worth $8 million with Spyre Sports Group, the NIL collective
.. for Tennessee in 2022."
Can't stop pros...or college pros...from holding out if they later don't like the contract they signed...
I get the holding out part but should not be able to walk away and sign
Elsewhere if u have a contract in place. No way he should get another deal at another school because he doesn’t like this one short of behind released from it.
U can’t do that in the nfl unless u broker a trade or a release but the team is obligated to cooperate.
I agree. The party you contract with has to be compensated if you take your services elsewhere.
These joke contracts are payment for name, image and likeness only while you are at that institution though.
I think that we all know this is a farce, but that is what they are nominally for. If you leave they cease by their nature, since they could conceivably still pay for your "name, image and likeness" (which still exists at your next landing spot) but, of course, they only wish to pay for it at Tennessee say...and not at a North Carolina...or elsewhere.
The new "system" is constructed on a fantasy...
If he were a superstar, the consensus would have been to pay him
If he had numbers like Trevor Lawrence, then most folks here would said that paying him more would have been worth it.
Iamaleava had decent, but not great, numbers.
213-334 passing, 2616 yards, 19 TD, 5 INT.
I wouldn't have said that his current pay of $2.4 million would have justified that, much less the $4 million he was allegedly demanding. You have to earn your keep, after all.
That offense was centered around their superstar RB, Dylan Sampson, and he's the only guy on that team that I would have said deserved a pay raise (his NIL pay was $1 million in 2024) had he stayed.
One man's leverage is another man's BS. This can all be addressed through contracts.
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