Wherever there’s big money there’s usually big corruption. They’ve just cut out the middle man in college sports.
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Thats another issue. Remember you had to have good grades to play. Oh well
Msu is spending money keeping their own players.
Spot on assessment. If anything entering the draft means you gotta sign a 4 year rookie contract in the nfl. More freedom in college on the NIL programs. Teams don’t own you for more than 1 season
Already mentioned above but the NFL has collective bargaining, college doesn’t. That’s the difference and colleges don’t want collective bargaining. So blame the schools.
Oh I know the reasons why (and a legit salary cap plays a large part too), and I 100% blame the schools. Ever since that 1982 case with Georgia and Oklahoma it’s gone to shit. But every other sports league works that way too, for some stupid reasons. Yay, the Dodgers bought another championship! How is that any fun to root for?
Eventually there will be. I thought we would be further along with an agreement between the conferences by now, but the Big Ten and SEC don’t seem to agree on a number of things. It will get there.
There will be a cap for how much REVENUE a player can get from the SCHOOL.
But most of the top paid athletes are getting paid from Sponsors.
Hutch gets $45m AAV from the NFL
For instance he got a $20m Adidas deal.
Thats just one deal thats public.
Hes in a bunch more commercials
College no different
Cant cap how much a sponsor pays. Thats already been ruled in the Courts
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There is already a revenue sharing cap that universities can pay their student athletes. Why do people keep acting like there isn’t??
$20.5 million for 2025-2026 season.
With an expected rise of 4% for the 2026-2027 season.
It’s there. A cap is there.
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True there is.
Yet, that isn’t the only way athletes can be paid for their Name Image and Likeness that is only one revenue stream. The others are thru Collectives or such.
Like a David Portnoy and Ellison for UM and Cuban for IU that is not included in the cap you reference.
I don’t understand why people are getting so worked up. BYU paid a pretty plenty and got nowhere. Michigan spent some money but that wasn’t the important aspect. The important part was that Dusty nailed his evals both in terms of overall talent and perhaps more importantly how the pieces fit the system and fit together
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Yep, I’m tracking that. It’s why I keep repeating that NIL is a separate issue.
But even in the House vs NCAA agreement, that instituted the “direct payment” cap, they also instituted a sports commission that is “supposedly” reviewing all of those third party agreements to ensure they are not “pay for play”.
As @DBend144 stated there is no legal way to tell a student athlete how much they are allowed to be paid for their Name, Image, Likeness with third party institutions. It would be like telling Michael Jordan he isn’t allowed to enter into any agreements with Nike.
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Question for UM going forward, not really NIL related, is how well do they play defense without Boynton.
But you are correct on Dusty’s eval and then coaching them up.
Now we can’t beat them at basketball either.
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And without Mara. I know that you have Thiam but Mara was just different.
Fair point on Mara.
But I would say that Mara exceeded what anyone thought he would do at UM.
Biggest question is no Yaxel so Dusty will have to reinvent the team but he has the pieces, existing, HS recruits and portal to figure it out. I think he will won’t be 2025/26 level but can still be really really good.
Agreed. Mara kind of sucked at UCLA.
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Dam Kid!
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