From Ross Dellenger.
I have no remorse - greed created the system and greed will take down the system
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105 man team roster splitting 20 million is around $190,000 per player. Probably
will not be that simple of a split, but just to give an idea of how big this could be…
I’d expect skilled players to get more, starters to receive more over backups, etc…
Just wow !
Can’t wait to see how this impacts participation levels at the high school level.
Old school here, hate to see this. Not because of the athletes making an earning, but because even the pros have salary caps. Long term ramifications will be interesting. Schools are going to have to develop an in-house financial department to educate/protect the athletes from themselves, “advisors”, and parents.
A lot of schools have to be having second thoughts about participating in the building arms race right now. Could have spent those millions on players.
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The pros don’t have caps on NIL and Michael Jordan is a perfect example.
As far as schools paying players directly, I see your point
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Article says only about $15M to football, which is about $142 per player average. Of course that does not include continued NIL. Nor does it include all the scholarship, room&board, tutoring, insurance/medical and other benefits which people often like to discount. Total compensation package could easily get over $200,000 (if not 300) average per football player.
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I see NIL as a separate program. I read what the SEC is proposing as a direct payment in addition to any NIL money received.
Reading the article just makes me wonder how much longer the scam of non-profit will last for college football.
The main point being that the SEC plan is to pay based upon revenue the sport brings in (at least that is the basis for football getting 75%). Which means very little to women’s sports. If it gets outside of Title IX, then it would show a for profit action by just paying based upon revenue. A non-profit would be about helping all student athletes.
SEC will be expecting lawsuits over Title IX I imagine.
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Yep, NIL is separate from the $20M pay package.
Problem is the NIL is being used as pay for play and not for name image likeness appearances. If NIL is used as intended only, then it is a good thing. Otherwise as pay for play, It needs to be within caps.
Article mentions range of values from
various people. See here
While the exact figure remains a mystery, athletic departments are expecting to operate with a revenue-sharing cap in the low-$20 million range when the model is implemented next fall.
Agree on this part; basically help protect 18 year olds with lots of money from the world. Gonna be a lot stories of kids pissing it all away and being conned as well.
On the NIL part disagree; as pointed out by others , NIL is not a part of a salary cap. It is the sweetener deal, but in reality is a pay to play scheme. And I don’t see how you can regulate that.
Yes total pay out with roughly 75% going to football to match the amount of revenue brings in to the athletic dept.
"“Do the math,” Florida coach Billy Napier told Yahoo Sports. “We’re talking $20 million (in allotted revenue sharing). In most athletic departments, football is 70-75% of the revenue. That’s $12.5-15 million. That’s the number we anticipate.”
LSU coach Brian Kelly describes his expected football roster budget: “I’d say between $14-17 million.”"
Either way, it is a lot of money to football players. I think the large amount to football while matching revenue will cause problems under Title IX until after lawsuits are settled.
Didn’t mean to imply that NIL should be capped, athletes should get as much as they can while they can, if funded by the original intent of the program. My concern is with salaries paid by the school.
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So how do you feel about the gifted science student, on scholarship, that is allowed to get paid for lectures?
Or the symphony member, on scholarship, that is allowed to get paid for a concert performance?
Or the architecture student, on scholarship, that is allowed to get paid for winning a student competition?
Or the theater student, on scholarship, that gets a payment form their performance in a school play based on ticket sames?
Or are you just against the student athletes, on scholarship, getting paid despite MILLIONS of revenue being brought in because of THEIR contributions?
At this point, why not let the kids pay full price for their
enrollment and don’t give scholarships anymore ? No Title IX issues. Sucks for all the kids in both men’s and women’s program that are in non revenue sports…but that’s progress.
I suppose you could give scholarships to all non football athletes to maintain balance between men and women sports.
Read my posts again. Nothing against ANYONE getting paid, especially NIL. A salary cap helps keep teams competitive, at least the professional sports think so.
I’m not talking about NIL
Ad I have argued in another post, what works for the pros does not necessarily have to work for CFB. The NFL has 30 teams, a draft, equal revenue sharing among teams. The salary cap is based on league generated revenue that is split equally among all 30 teams. Revenue that teams raise from own sources may not be applied to increase the cap.
CFB has 130 teams, no draft, no revenue sharing (except among conference members). So if you are going to set a salary cap, what level should it be? A level that’s affordable to MAC or one that’s affordable to SEC?
Why would SEC/B10 agree to a cap that far less than what they can afford?
We have done for many years and by that I mean winning with players not so highly recruited….and we can continue to do so.
And as long as Coach Sampson is around we will be a playoff contender in hoops.
I love Coach Fritz and while I think it will be a bumpy road this year I think he will have us competitive in a short period of time.
I can see that as a possibility. Though I think it may have different issues. Actually whatever they do will have lots of problems and some bad results.
If football players get employee status, would other sports sue for the same benefit? Would that win or lose? A school hiring male athletes but not female athletes could be seen as discrimination.
How would the salary cap be affected by players having to pay different amounts for tuition at different schools? Private schools cost a lot more - do they get kicked out of top level football? What about in-state and out-of-state tuition? If the average player gets $150,000 but tuition/room/board at one school is $30,000 but another is $60,000, that is a big percentage of their pay. …or do all school employees get free classes?
Lot of different issues which I do not know the answer to.