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When your A/C takes a shit and time is of the essence, you call a company near 4 hours away because football.
Can you imagine that bill for hourly wages (+ OT), fuel and mileage on their van, etc?
Can you imagine that bill for hourly wages (+ OT), fuel and mileage on their van, etc?
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Totally worth itWhen your A/C takes a shit and time is of the essence, you call a company near 4 hours away because football.
Can you imagine that bill for hourly wages (+ OT), fuel and mileage on their van, etc?
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“Get your Bijan Freeze On ™”
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do you need an inaug when you have been there 3 times before?
its kinda like having a baby shower for your 2 boy 14 months after the first one
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One of the main guys on surly had this thought about the July 1st showdown with the new NIL bill and the NCAA
Also there is this
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Also there is this
In first two years of NIL compensation, Texas A&M athletes have earned more than $10M
In the second year of legalized name, image and likeness compensation, Texas A&M athletes more than doubled their revenue on NIL deals.
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Did I say there was one who had it pulled? Or did I ask if it was possible to do it today?Name me one kid that has had his scholarship pulled mid-season based on performance? Bet you can't. But if they want to be paid like professionals, it should definitely come with the territory.
The trading of players is what I want to see. I think it would be so great to see a kid playing for his hometown team in front of his friends and family getting traded clear across the country to a school he wants nothing to do with and he will lose credits because they all don't transfer. But if you want to be paid like a professional, you have to expect schools to treat you like one.
Unless this whole NIL thing is like feminism, where they want 'equality' but only for the good things they hand pick.
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During our Christmas party last December, I made some sizable bets with several of my friends (Texas grads) that OU and Texas would not be in the same conference in 10 years, 15 years at the latest. Anyone on here think they would have taken my bet? I knew in my gut that the friction was going to start "any day now" between the mentality in the state of Texas and the SEC. It would just be a matter of time until..................................... It's a star-crossed marriage that is doomed to failure and a nasty divorce. They're already fighting during the honeymoon.
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The SEC isn't whining though. Saban and his little puppet boy are. And they are only complaining because they don't have the same resources to compete and haven't found out under the table routes to get an advantage yet.
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Anything is possible. I want to see it actually happening. If they want to be paid like professionals -- it needs to be all the way. I want to see under performing kids getting shipped off to no name schools in trades. I want to see kids getting scholarships pulled and booted from school, if they didn't have the academic requirements to attend the school w/o sports. I want to see all limitations put on sports programs for practice, strength and conditioning, etc. to be waived, because the kids are now not student/athletes, they are paid athletes who happen to go to school.
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Alabama just signed 10 of the top 50 recruits nationally in 2023. 9 of them being 5 star recruits. That doesn't even include they also signed the #1 ranked JUCO recruit too.
I think they have plenty of resources and are doing just fine, because the money is great for the kids, but the top recruits want to win too.
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So NIL is no change from what could be done today with scholarships is what you are saying.
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Ok. Doesn't change the fact Saban can't stop pussy-aching about what other schools are doing with NIL.
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Normally -- I'm the first person who would be piling on Saban. For once, he is right. NIL has to be regulated or you are going to end up with a free for all and you are going to end up with kids facing real life problems if the IRS decides to start poking around.
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You cannot tell a person what he can make on the side through his own name and face.
Pay the Fucking players. Make most of their money come from the actual football. You can make rules about that like every other fucking league in sports: , transfer rules, caps, profit sharing etc.
oh, maybe someone said this more than a decade ago and has said the same thing every Fucking time this subject comes up. Oh yeah. It’s me.
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Meanwhile he is doing all the same stuff he is bitching about A&M doing. His only gripe is the field is level now and he hates that.
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If you regulate it -- it will level the playing field for everyone. And he just signed more 5 star recruits in a single year than he ever has before.
The playing field isn't level -- giving a team like Alabama free reign to hand out cash to kids, they are going to take the money from Bama and in many cases, they'd take less from Bama, because they will not only get paid, but they will get to compete for a national title every year, which you won't be doing at the vast majority of schools.
I give props to A&M for coming out firing in the NIL era, but now kids got to see what signing their got them and it is back to the normal schools at the top and it won't be changing any time soon.
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yeah they have.. but what they have issues is keeping those guys in the program.. take a look at the players they have lost in the portal.. I get it, they weren't to the level they expect, they have true dawgs coming in from HSFB
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Disagree, even regulated there will be teams that can't afford to spend at the top. Unregulated is as even as regulated.
Don't listen to what that UGA idiot that has 19 degrees from every school known to man is spewing. A&M didn't lose anyone of consequence from our #1 class. I am pretty sure A&M didn't lose a single player that played in the last game of the season. Everyone that left either wasn't a highly rated player or was kicked off the team earlier in the season for being a trouble maker.