That’s why I advocated more enforcement. Enforcement means the horns don’t get away with it. We don’t need to play keeping up with the Joneses and coveting our neighbor’s ass if we go for uniform and strict enforcement of the rules.
college sports will never be same. there is no way these prices can be sustainable. will be the death of college sports for alot of Universities
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Move to China then. …or some other ant-capitalst country
Every other single scholarship student was allowed to have a job and make money…except athletes
Don’t hate that the capitalistic market is aetting these as their worth
NOW they have to share top talent.
Not a single Houston Cougar fan should say one bad thing about NIL…this is the gift from the Gods weve been praying for 30 years now.
We are in the heart of the NIL era and we are a top basketball program and the ranked favorite in a bowl game against LSU!!
You’d seriously rather we go back to how things were when we were in CUSA???
Proof is in the pudding
What’s not to like…we are a HAVE not a HAVE-NOT
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We were a have for 20 years in the southwest, and as an independent for most of the 20 before that.
Then money got involved in the form of tv deals and the bowl alliance/BCS, and Texas kicked us to the curb.
The money created the problem.
The same money incentives have blown up multiple traditional conferences and rivalries, and many fans have voiced their disappointment and frustration at that. The excess travel has further eroded athletes ability to be students. All the other students may be able to get jobs during school, but they can’t miss 2/3 of class and still get decent grades.
I’ve long been an advocate for professional minor league football. If a kid wants to play, get paid, and not pretend to go to college, that should be available like it is in other sports. The NFL should stop getting it’s talent development at taxpayer expense. But giving in and turning college ball into overt pro minor league ball is the worst of both worlds.
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I am all for more enforcement but more enforcement from whom? The ncaa is corrupted to their core.
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That is true until uta conspired with the ncaa to get in probations multiple times.
Without these probations there is no telling how many Nattys we would have won.
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The players are going to unionize at some point.
The Supreme Court forced the abandonment of any enforcement when it destroyed the guardrails with nothing to replace them. NIL wasn’t a choice; it was an edict.
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You have a point and why should not they?
Why? What’s in it for the top earners?
Nobody will watch minor league football… unless it is played with the jersey of a university on players’ backs…
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Are top earners normally the drivers of unionization… 
Of course not, but you have to get them in the fold, right? There’s no incentive, and they aren’t even considered employees.
People are looking at a players union from the standpoint of controlling the payout. There isn’t any upside for the players in the major conferences to do this, because they have all the power already.
Can you imagine the NFL without revenue sharing and salary caps…
Actually, it was just for a few stinking phone calls, but same deal.
True NIL is okay with me. But that’s not close to what we have.
True NIL lets a player get paid for providing a service (a service other than showing up and playing football at a particular school). And that’s all the Supreme Court case required.
This NIL collective stuff, and the schools now paying what is basically a salary are not part of NIL and have nothing to do with the Supreme Court case. IMO, this is about the haves making it more difficult for the have-nots to compete on the field. This is the part I don’t like.
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