Schools will need to sue other schools’ affiliates for this to stop. How good is your kicking game when a “star” kicker doesn’t make a road game?
Our kicker was good last week but his kicks zig-zag. Kind of like winning a dart throwing competition but your darts fly around the light pole. I guess as long as it goes through.
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If we have to make another rule, make a redshirt rule that says if you play a down you lose that year. That way these free agents have to make the decision prior to the season.
should that also be a rule in the regular work force?
You can no longer give a 2 week notice if you are unhappy or were offered a better job?
Instead, you have to give six month notice since you “made a commitment” to your company and your work team. Who cares if your “ejection” caused other employees to pick up the slack and work overtime…right?
Of course I am being facetious but in both scenarios…NO CONTRACT WAS SIGNED!
The answer is to have these NIL contracts be binding in a Court of Law…and not cracker jack agreements…which they currently are.
They need to be SPECIFIC CONTRACTS as to when/how you get the NIL money and how many games you are expected to play.
Student-athletes can be paid for their autograph, developing their own merchandise, promoting products or services, and event appearances due to their personal celebrity. Now, athletes are starting their own brands, endorsing brands, and becoming their own brands. It appears to me (not a legal scholar) that unless something is stated in the contract between the signor and signee, athletic performance for a specific team/university has no bearing on the contract. JMHO
The NIL contracts need to be in place and upheld by the school to pay it and by the player to stay in school and compete, not quit after 4 games because you are down to one year of eligibility and see more money on the horizon.
I want transfer fees. If you’re gonna take my player you owe me some chedda! (the other university).
Are “letters of intent” even a thing today?
PS… they aren’t student athletes anymore. That term needs to be put away. Contract players, free agents, mercenaries, whatever but if it’s pay-to-play… you’re not a student athlete.
18 year olds across the country getting jobs. I know a kid that graduated last year and had his welding certificate and is making 80 grand this year. Just in it for the money. Hope he knows he has to pay taxes.
I am starting to think that the coaching staff is only in it for the money as well. They aren’t doing it just for the school anymore, but also for the multi million dollar salary. Crazy world!