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Kirby Smart: âBe carefulâ selling college football home games for NIL dollars
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Kirby Smart: âBe carefulâ selling college football home games for NIL dollars
The Aflac Kickoff Game next Sept. 5 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium between Baylor and Auburn will allow the gameâs organizers to âutilize third-party entities to secure marketing assets and promotional appearances by Auburn student-athletes,â per an event release, translating to NIL dollars going into playersâ pockets.
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Nil gain local community loss when you move the games
This is a slippery slope. The college football we all loved is rapidly deteriorating to pay to play eliminating the essence of non professional sports :(
Fans, especially season ticket holders, are the ones who get the shaft. But who cares about them when the almighty dollar is at play?? Good grief, just another black eye for the new world of college football.
Surely Auburn has brought back the gambling river boats from the 90’s, with the slot machines that never lose when AU players pull the handles lol.
Part of watching College football is the either homefield advantage and pomp and circumstance or seeing the other teams deal. It's what make up the fabric of it. Take that away and you just kill College fooball IMHO. I already don't watch NFL games fron Germany or Dublin. You've robbed ticket holders of a home game potentially. At some point you can't change everything for a dollar. Stop being ladies of the night.
Everybody loses when you compete against the almighty dollar—-college football has become NFL jr.
The lines between pro and college continue to disappear. I've always loved the college game much more than pro, but with the continued changes, it's becoming more difficult to tell them apart. At least in the pros, there are contracts involved and some semblance of rules. Not begrudging the athletes any compensation, but we may not be far from a return to when the college game was purely extracurricular and they were true student-athletes. It would certainly be a step back athletically, but it would at least draw a clear distinction between pro and amateur.
What do I know - I'm just an old man barking at days gone by. Ha
Somebody(s) has got to grow a pair and stop the madness.
Feeling more like professional football. Sanford will pull the hedges and convert to a soccer stadium.
If he thinks a motel room is cheaper in Atlanta than Auburn on game day..he hasn't been to Atlanta recently.
that’s the problem…ncaa is toothless. By not enacting some common sense rules for players 25 years ago (get compensated for video games, jersey sales, autograph shows) they let it get to legislation which they were always going to lose. Now the toothpaste is out of the tube and any rule they want to make is just going to get challenged in court.
I think the only option now is for the p4 schools to break away, form their own thing and set their own rules apart from the ncaa.
Agree, have been saying the same thing for a while. If it all continues to go in this direction, I would rather start over and support walk-ons. Guessing the pros love this stuff - wonder what removing the minimum age limit to play in the NFL would do, make it like baseball.
Every single comment here is right as rain !! @Kasey rightfully pointed out the root and origin of the problem. The feckless NCAA. There’s really Only ONE way to solve it that I can see and it’d be pretty dawg gone painful. It’d be akin to when the NFL ( which I don’t watch anymore) went to the scab teams during the strikes.
Here it is: Have any and all recruits that want to play sign a contract stating that scholarship, room & board etc. you know like the “ Old Days” is enough Plus a stipend of say $24,000 per year with No state taxes ( can’t help about Fed) ALL players get the exact same !! So that’s a Free education, Free roof over your head, Free food, Oh and meant to add throw in free medical even if non sports related, Plus $2000 per month spending money. Now that’s a heck of allot more than millions of HS grads get !!
There would be no Envy and Jealousy among players as everybody is getting the same thing !! Yes you can still get in trouble on $2000 per month but perhaps with the reduction in $$ maybe money fueled trouble would Also be reduced as well.
Lastly the players would be playing much more for loyalty to school and coaches than to $$. A degree from the University of Georgia for absolute Free !! I’d take it in a heart beat !!
The players may not have the talent of these we see ( then again if everyone has the Same structure to go by maybe wouldn’t be much change) but they’d probably play with heart and desire to try to make the NFL.
I know I know it’s probably way too late to see anything like this. Many of us that are Veterans served in the military with initial pay being far less ! I did, I served when Noah was an admiral !! 🤣
Who would’ve guessed that Lane Kiffin has a better understanding of this issue than most other coaches? Stoopes simply saying what recruits want to hear isn’t surprising, but is disappointing nevertheless. Paying 18, 19, and 20 year olds more than a $100,000 in cash plus free tuition, books, room and board borders on insanity. It’s out of hand.
what about paying coaches $10M a year?