Mensah Getting $8 Million NIL Deal

[Mean Green 93-98]

For those who don't remember, this is the guy who transferred out of Tulane to Duke.  The guy will never have to work a day in his life.  Now let the bidding wars truly begin.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/highest-paid-player-in-college-football-history-transfer-qb-darian-mensahs-duke-deal-is-sign-of-times/

[All About UNT]

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

[Mean Green 93-98]

11 minutes ago, All About UNT said:

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

Yeah, take that all out, and he'll still probably make triple the next two years what I'll make my entire life.

[UNTLifer]

3 hours ago, All About UNT said:

Tax, Agent Fee, post-collegiate medical insurance (sans going to NFL) and no... this guy will be working like most the rest of us lol

New car, stupid jewelry, ooor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

[97and03]

3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

New car, stupid jewelry, ooor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

The guy who attended Tulane and now Duke? 

[GMG_Dallas]

5 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

New car, stupid jewelry, ooor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

You know not all athletes are idiots, right?

[Wag Tag]

To hell with coaches and facilities. NIL is the most item in college football.

[Wag Tag]

Diego’s move as a former JC was genius!

[TheColonyEagle]

Maybe I need to read the article again...

Is that saying with revenue sharing coming online there will be a limit to what NIL Collectives can pay? That article seems to suggest that the big money will level out. How is that?

 

[Meangreen Fight]

46 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

To hell with coaches and facilities. NIL is the most item in college football.

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop.  But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model.  The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league.  No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally.  Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts.  The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing.  We all know that isn’t happening.  And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new.  Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball.  Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).   

[Ross Hodgeson]

4 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

This is what the NCAA was trying to stop.  But the hypocrisy and greed of everyone else in the sport getting paid a “market rate” while walk-ons got nothing and scholarship athletes were eating ramen noodles in the offseason broke that model.  The ONLY rational way forward to get sanity and fairness back with a large healthy FBS would about 80-100 teams coming together and becoming an actual league.  No less than 50% of all revenue (not including home ticket sales and merchandise sold on campus) would be shared equally.  Lots of other things would have to be done but most of them include cushy fat cat positions going away, and others taking 50% pay cuts.  The athletic departments would have to surrender a lot of power to the new league/NCAA along with the revenue sharing.  We all know that isn’t happening.  And we are on a slow road to College Football regular season ratings going down and playoff ratings going up while it is new.  Then after the newness wears off we will have FBS looking more like College Basketball.  Dramatically less interest in regular season football with few being familiar with great players outside of Heisman contenders (and/or projected 1st round Quarterbacks).   

Good post!  I agree with everything you said.

[Coffee and TV]

7 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

New car, stupid jewelry, ooor decisions, etc & broke in five years. 

lmao nice dog whistle.

[NT80]

4 hours ago, 97and03 said:

The guy who attended Tulane and now Duke? 

Former Duke star Christian Laettner faces involuntary bankruptcy

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/former-duke-star-christian-laettner-faces-involuntary-bankruptcy/

[NorthTexasWeLove]

4 hours ago, 97and03 said:

The guy who attended Tulane and now Duke? 

This is said as if he got admitted to these schools off of his hard work and dedication to his academia. lol c'mon, man.