The University of Tennessee is adding a 10% “Talent Fee” to season tickets so that the program can pay the players. Not surprisingly, there is backlash from the Tennessee season ticket holders. I would like to know how this is allowed under the NCAA rules for NIL? Or, is the another attempt by a university going rogue against NCAA rules only to be later shot down.
My guess is once universities bleed dry the BMDs and corporate America, this will be the default solution, until the fan base objects so loudly the university has to abandon the issue.
We are not Tennessee and we have about a fourth of their fans. Do you want to run off the fans
I have said it before, I don’t want a penny of mine going to pay players in any sport.
That’s exactly why we should do it - BC we aren’t Tennessee. Anything they are doing we should be doing unless there is a better idea to generate NIL funding. We can’t shut down any channel that can bring money in or we are only going to watch the gap between us and them get wider and wider and wider.
My theory is that most fans who attend games would pay a little extra to have a winning product on the field.
It could work here with a winner. They might lose you and me. But, they’d be able to replace us if the stadium is full or even 80 percent on average.
There’s a guy on here who said he’s a Tennessee football fan because that is a real football school unlike UH. Maybe he’ll see this thread and chime in.
No, it’s not the game we fell in love with, at least those of us who are older. The realignment of teams into “super conferences” along with the free for all that is the transfer portal has made the game less and less interesting to me.
About all I care about in college football is supporting the Coogs. Beyond that, it’s just an absurd mess that I have a hard time getting excited about. When Indiana plays at UCLA in a conference game, you know things are way far gone.
I enjoy the NFL much more than college ball, and I imagine the gap will continue to grow. There’s a salary cap in the NFL, and it makes the league much more interesting. If you have a competent organization you can compete. In college the schools with all the money are going to dominate even more than they did in the past, and the gap between the haves and have nots will grow. I know some people think the new world of college football gives the have nots a fighting chance, but I don’t see it.
We have a new AD in place to figure out how to get money for players and I doubt poking season ticket holders for more money is an option.
That said I am sure if you have extra cash stashed you can get it to the players.
But I understand what you are saying.
This proves Tennessee doesn’t have a great corporate base. They only have alumni fans to pay the extra. We could try this but I’d try the corporate route first and see which is what the AD is tasked with by Khator. We have a corporate base to tap into as a shot where as some like tenn have less corporations to tape into
I read somewhere that the state of Georgia signed a law that bars the NCAA from punishing any Georgia school for paying NIL directly to players. The article went on to say that come next year, schools can pay NIL directly to players. Sounds like this is Tennessee’s way of getting NIL funding.
As much as I hate for congress to get involved in anything, we need a national standard.
what are the finances right now? How much NIL do we have and how does that amount stack up nationally? also were going to have 15 mil to pay players next season?
No, a “talent fee” is going to run a lot of people off. Maybe not at Tennessee, maybe not here but overall there will be people that say they’ve had it. If college football could ever unite and get a TV deal in place like the NFL has, you’d see more of an even playing field in the way of revenue. These conferences canibalizing each other every year for the sake of more money is not good for the game or the fans. Unfortunately the Big $ Schools only care about themselves. Nobody is looking out for what’s best overall for college football.