Michigan is offering 2025 No. 1 recruit and LSU quarterback commit Bryce Underwood a $10.5 million NIL offer over four years to flip his allegiance.
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Which company is doing this?
The University is doing this?
How big is the their yearly NIL collective if they can spend 2.5 million on one player?
Will he be like Arch Manning, a millionaire backup in college?
Surely that sounds ridiculous to most. Beyond out of hand now
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Dave “Barstool” Portnoy’s $ are probably some of this
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Paging freaking CONGRESS! Fix this mess please!!!
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All of his NIL goes to charity tho
For four years? Almost sounds like a contract. What if the player decides to transfer? Does he have to return some of the money?
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What’s college about football now? Who cares about an education? Just be a mercenary to the highest bidder every year of eligibility
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Imagine. Paying a QB 10 Million to go to a top 10 school in the nation…
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I thought this is what everyone wanted?
“pay those poor college athletes”
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That’s what 4 years indicates that is being offered through installments.
Why…it’s just the largest transfer of generational wealth in US history.
Only that wealthy people are VOLUNTARILY taking money from their children’s future inheritance and transferring them to college athletes (or even high school recruits) and the majority of the athlete recipients come from lower socioeconomic conditions.
The government found a way to pay for the poor…BY the rich…why would they get involved?
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It’s a free market
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They need to stop calling it NIL and start calling it for what it is (“pay to play”).
The whole intent of this was to give these kids marketing opportunities while they were enrolled at a school. NOT to entice them to come to your school. Calling it NIL (name-image-likeness) is a joke.
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That’s our ENTIRE NIL budget for ALL SPORTS COMBINED.
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When you start flying with the big boys, money talks, credit walks. NILs will continue to escalate and big boy NILs will hit the stratosphere.
That is not a club that UH will be able to afford, or even want to be a member of.
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The kid is FROM Michigan, so there’s a chance…Pretty sure LSU will find someone just as good if the kid flips…
True. No one actually believed that’s how it would play out though. Especially when the portal was thrown in with it.
…and yet, we have as many conference wins as Michigan does.
I’ll say for the millionth time…NIL does not create “more” better players…it only pays them and often disperses them more evenly so one time “blue bloods” become easier to beat.
We should embrace the NIL era for FINALLY leveling the playing field!!!
Alums/ supporters throwing around stupid money, and at the sake of generational wealth, to attract players is just STUPID
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The Federal Courts created this mess and now it is time for them to clean it up.
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Dayum!
Take the $ kid!