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I think this is the direction this is all going.
I don’t see where all this corporate NIL is going to come from, sure you will get a few commercials and promotions like Gallery and the like, but with football you want 1 or 2 guys, HEB is not signing the entire Texans to do commercials they sign 2-3 key players. At this point most NIL even “corporate” NIL is just rich alumni paying players. Reasonable corporations may pay for program sponsorships and naming rights but they are not going to just pay our player just cause.
I don’t think there should be a talent fee, but we pay a talent fee to Cougar Pride, I think the Cougar Pride donation should go to NIL and the athletic department should make up the revenue in other ways more traditional ways.
While I agree there needs to be rules that everyone plays by, Congress has no business getting involved in NIL. As I have I posted before, this is clearly a NCAA issue. Rather than each school racing to the top of insanity, let’s create a NIL cap for all FBS schools. This pays the players and creates some degree of equity among the schools. I also believe the transfer portal is a partner in crime with NIL. Eliminate the free agency every year and limit a transfer to once in a college career without having to sit out a year. If a player transfers more than once, he/she has to sit out a year.
And as long as you have the the NCAA being overruled by state courts or state legislatures, like in the case here, you are always going to have disparate results. You want an NIL cap for all schools? Fine. Until some state judge says you can’t do that. Now the schools in that state can spend whatever they want. You are dealing with multiple states here which should make it a federal issue.
The only reason I want congress involved is it sets the rules at a federal level and some hometown judge can’t overrule the NCAA. AS an example, let congress say the NCAA has the authority to set standards.
These are government entities acting like for profit entities, competing in professional sports. But they are asking the populace to pay for their employees with made up advertising dollars to circumvent calling the money salary and thus avoiding payroll taxes.
Average joes are getting priced out. Just look at what that scumbag Hunter Yurachek was recently preaching to Arkansas fans. All the big money donors have done their part, so it’s up to working class families to pay the players now. I support NIL, but I am not a fan of administrators getting in front of cameras and begging for more money.
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First, this is not NIL. This is for the new $20 million or so the schools can pay direct to players in addition to NIL. Note the bolded line from the Tenn official.
“We will continue to grow our other revenue streams and be efficient with our expenses to maximize the anticipated full revenue share allotment,” Tennessee said in its statement to season ticket holders.
Also NIL cannot be capped as it is players earning money from outside sources such as advertising supposedly. It is currently abused as pay for play. The NFL does not cap player endorsements and advertising appearances either. Hopefully once the revenue sharing is in place, the NIL will start to normalize for its intended use - making fair money for advertising appearances, social media pushes, autographs etc…
All that said, I am already having a hard time renewing tickets, and this might be the element to put me over the top for college sports. I already dropped all pro sports support. Only time I do anything with the pros, is if someone gives me a free ticket and parking or it is on in the background at a sports bar. No idea what standings are for Astros or Texans or season expectations. I only know Dell is on the Texans.
I gave up on pro sports several years ago. This year, I gave up my club access/seats at the 35 yard line. CTW and the boys at Schroeder Park are going to have to live without my future Coach’s Committee donations. Bottom line, I’m done!
Except that 10% add-on won’t do that any more than just increasing your CP donation. You’ll pay more, but so is everyone else, and throwing more money at these guys isn’t going to make us go undefeated.
Jamming up the few season ticket holders we have with tack-on costs isn’t going to work. The first order of business is to fill up the stadium. Once that happens, THEN you start trying to extract more money, but this isn’t the way to do it.
I’ve been a season ticket holder and CP donor for quite a while and plan to keep doing that. If they add something like this, I’m out on both - no tickets, no donations, nothing. I’d be done.
If you do have a winning product on the field at the University of Houston, you will have more season-ticket holders. You will have more Attendees at the game. So you’re right, they’ll lose guys like me and you, but They will happily replace us with a different type of buyer. Although we may not be able to compete with UT and A&M. We would certainly be able to Do better than the Baylors And tcus Of the world.
It’s almost like a concert or club or bar where they have performances. The performers get a percentage of the door. IT could actually be used as a recruiting tool.
This is a new frontier and we’ve got to be open to any and everything. If not, we are only going to continue to get left behind.
Lots of “ifs” in there - we can’t do this right now, and probably not ever. It’s not like there are thousands of future Coog fans out there just waiting for an opportunity to pay more to come to games. There are no replacement buyers, and the end result would be less money AND less fans.
If the AD decides to allocate some of the gate to the players, band or whomever, that’s fine. Tacking on a fee is a no-go.
The NCAA is like the wild west, it’s out of control. I was reading today they are changing the transfer rules so that an athlete can transfer as many times as they like so long as they are in good academic standings.
Currently you can transfer once, but must sit out a year if you transfer again.
“The Division I Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a package of rules changes to allow transferring student-athletes who meet certain academic eligibility requirements to be immediately eligible at their new school, regardless of whether they transferred previously.”
With this, they need to change NCAA to NCFAA (National Collegiate Free Agent Association).
When older cougar fans read what Tennessee is doing, one can’t help but think of the $100.00 per seat assessment that former UH AD Cedric Dempsey imposed back in the early 1980s. The rationale was something similar to what is happening today, as in “UH needs it to stay competitive”. The UH fan backlash was severe. I don’t have any numbers, but anecdotally, many season ticket holders said they were not renewing.
That was 40 years ago and times have changed, but given UH’s fan base, I can see the same backlash from UH fans in 2024.
The optics will always be bad. Just raise ticket prices as demand increases and allocate those revenues as appropriate. They’d have more luck allowing people to donate at concession stands or through an app at the game than trying to force the issue through ticket sales.