NIL out of hand already

[El Paso Eagle]

38 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Arch Manning is still a junior.  And surely it's someone who has committed somewhere.  All part of the new recruiting game.

[El Paso Eagle]

On 8/13/2021 at 9:29 AM, Mean Green Matt said:

At the end of the day it’s just a business like any other. “College sports” will continue trying to maximize its profit unless and until those actions begin to hurt its profit by turning off customers. As I’ve said before the NIL is definitely the right thing to do for the players, but it does destroy what was left of college sports. While some will certainly not like the shift, it’s not as if the structure of college sports is decreed from the Heavens as an absolute. Sometimes things change for better or for worse. 

The problem is it blew past NIL the second it started. Everyone realized the rule was unenforceable, just like tampering and the portal. It became pay-to-play. Does anyone believe the schools are not heavily involved? The head of the THSCA even gave an example of where a kid who enjoyed the school he was at and had a NIL deal with a company was being "strongly" encouraged to transfer to a school in a larger market if he wanted to keep his deal. As you said, sometimes for the better and sometime for the worse. I wish the top 30-40 would go ahead and break off and take the money with them. The the process of college football can restructure and carry on.