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And your aggrandizing self-righteousness is convincing me…
I think pharmacists shouldn't get paid. It really should be about the love of providing medicine for patients. We need more team and less me in the medical field. This is what yall sound like. Are things different and coaches will have to adapt? Yes. There also fringes cases that will likely need to be addressed, but that doesn't mean we go back to players not owning their identity
Future pharmacists (or doctors) aren't getting paid coming out of HS by boosters to go to a certain college. Every one of them MUST graduate college also, then a lot more school on top of that....no early entry into the employment pool. If some of them can make some extra cash on the side, that's great. But they aren't getting sums of money from boosters just for being there.
I think if you read the comments by Kirby, Saban, and Kiffen....they are all saying that NIL was not supposed to be a recruiting tool, and it certainly was not supposed to be boosters pooling money and just handing it out to players. You have to admit, getting a bag of money just for going to a certain school is not "owning their identity". It's a pay-for-play scheme. These kids are not hitting campus and then doing local car commercials or autograph signings.
yeah these fringe cases should be addressed. As far as it not being a recruiting tool I don't think we'll ever see that go away. Pretty much everyone wants to earn the most money they can. Could you imagine an employer trying to recruit new talent saying they don't think salary and bonuses should factor in to the decision to work for them? Insanity
That is true, and I agree. I think we are all in agreement that significant adjustments need to be made. The current format is not supportable long term.
Fair. And I happen to think when these kids fail to perform and show proper ROI most of the issues will solve themselves.
Or, kids make decisions based on NIL and go to a lesser school and fail to get the development and exposure they need. Travis Hunter and Kevin Coleman at JSU will be interesting to watch. I'm assuming they didn't go to an FCS team just because Sanders is such a great recruiter. Kirby touched on it when he was talking but selling kids on facilities, support and development....but a lot of kids are just looking at $$$ now. I have a feeling that a lot of these guys are going to regret taking the money instead of going to a school that can make them the best player they can be.
We learn by doing it wrong, not by doing it right. Many smart kids are paying attention to those guys at Jackson State the next couple of years.
I wasn't paid in school. In fact... I had to pay them. Quite a lot too.
No one wanted to buy your scrubs or come see you learn in class either I’m guessing.
They missed out then. It was spectacular. I was national champ of pharmacokinetics.
For me as college football fan, both the NIL and transfer portal debates, and even the rise of a playoff system, share a common problem. As a college football fan, I am proud of and loyal to my school and my school’s team… that is what, for me, makes college football interesting, inspiring, and great. Heck, I even enjoyed the pre-playoff era debates that occassionally arose concerning which school was the real national champion! 🤣 The march toward a more ‘professional’ system, in which players have less and less loyalty to their schools, and, in some cases, become mere paid mercenaries, takes away much of the enjoyment for fans like myself…enjoyment on which I suspect the future success and popularity of college football depend. There are reasons I don’t care at all about the NFL… just a bunch of disloyal mercenaries performing their skill sets—nothing for which to cheer.
Seems Kirby isn’t going to focus on recruits who are solely worried about NIL. Didn’t see any pitfalls he discussed, just the shift in focus for some recruits now that they can earn money. Basically, now coaching staffs have another aspect to consider before they sign a kid.
I like Kirby’s public approach, and I hope it pays big dividends for Georgia and college football. Team and loyalty over self adulation and immediate gratification, ftw!
way better approach than Jimbos. I wonder now if Jimbo will last as long as this recruiting class. Pressure squarely on him now and he’s already not handling it well. A couple more 8-4s and dude is jumping ship or getting canned.
Doubt it when that contract is fully guaranteed
He shouldn’t get so mad then. Maybe he’s just embarrassed that he routinely underperforms
That's great right now. What about 5 years from now? Kirby can say he's more interested in the team-first guys...but down the road there could very well be a highly competitive salary race for all the top recruits. If that happens, Kirby is going to have to get knee-deep in to. And like Kirby said, it's not about winning championships as much as it used to. It is going to become increasingly difficult to convince blue chips to come to UGA or Bama for little to no guaranteed NIL money but a great chance to win championships over other lower tier teams that are offering the big bucks. There are a certain portion of these guys who want the $$$ now and really don't care about the team. And honestly, who can blame them for taking the money?
The reality is for these blue chip players, it really doesn't matter where they go to school. Are the facilities and coaching that much better at UGA and Bama than at KY, or Clemson or Oregon, or Mich St or Baylor? All of them put players in the NFL. I'm pretty sure all these elite players Bama and UGA are putting into the NFL would have made it no matter where they played. Why not take the money and play at Baylor or Oregon? If it doesn't work out, just hit the portal and find another NIL deal.
I got paid to go to grad school. Maybe you made some bad choices while I made better ones