Hokay, who said this?
“I just don’t know how it’s going to be managed,” [XXXXX] said. “You’re opening up a can of worms. How can you manage donors [who say], ‘Hey, you come to this school, the day you get here I’m going to buy 1,000 of your jerseys for 100 bucks.’ I don’t understand how all that’s going to get managed and that part scares me a lot.”
I’ll give you a hint. He’s on his fifth head coaching job, including one infamous bail out for greener pastures. He’s shown his ass on the recruiting trail. He’s dealt with plenty of deep pocket boosters.
In other words, these guys have no friggin’ shame.
Get The Picture 
I’ll take Joey Freshwater for $2,000, Alex.
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$2,000 buys a lot of Rebel Rags.
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Want to see who the first student athlete is that endorses the company who supplies “the laner” with burner phones…..conflict of interest, not at ol’ miss…
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Junior!!
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Don’t care who said this. He’s got a good point. How ARE you going to manage this? Or don’t you care whether this happens or not?
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Oh, so you don’t think boosters have been handing money to recruits before now? Or did you not care until now?
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I don’t think boosters have been handing anywhere near this much money to recruits. Now it’s going to be legal, so I think there’s going to be an awful lot more cash involved, enough to make a top recruit’s decision on where to go to school a purely financial one. Is that really what we want, for college athletics?
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Did you miss the money being paid to college BB players by shoe companies? Or the money offered to Cam’s dad? Don’t be naive.
Are you going to stop watching college football if a Todd Gurley gets ten grand at an autograph signing? What if an AJ Green gets $25000 for endorsing Fords?
As for recruits, I can’t help but feel it’s overblown. They’re being tempted by facilities and perks now; only thing that would change would be the motivation would be made more efficient.
The idea that we’re going to see some dramatic change in the recruiting pecking order if payments go above the table isn’t realistic, IMO. The rich will stay richer.
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Do you think the Cam situation was as commonplace as it would become in a world of unfettered NIL rights? I don’t. College football boosters are richer than they’ve ever been, and now there won’t be any limits on how much $$$ they can legally spend.
I’m fine with AJ getting the 25K for endorsing Fords. As long as he waits until he’s out of school. There’s a precedent for this case: Nick Chubb, who started making money for commercials he cut for Cedartown Ford soon after his career at UGA was finished.
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In a word, yes.
All unfettered NIL rights will accomplish is to move what is already happening under the table to a more transparent process.
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I agree to a point. But if you look at the total number of BB players versus the very very few that got anything illegally then they are not comparable. Who this really hurts are the midsize to smaller schools that would occasionally get a really good prospect for one reason or another. They won’t be able to compete with this. Not to mention if you think they beg for donations and cater to large donors now well just wait to see what happens after this. You haven’t seen anything yet.
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You are right, he/they do not care about what is brought down by the “doing what is right for for the poor children”; no concern at all for killing the Golden Goose. I get chasing your dreams, but not recognizing the resulting collateral damage done by a myopic viewpoint and lack of attention to the greater good is going to hurt more athletes than it will ever help. They will win, then we will all lose.
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Lolol
The people ruining cfb are the empty suits in the athletic departments and the television executives, not some dude offering Todd Gurley money for his autograph.
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Hes not wrong.
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Lane said “water is wet” and we can’t believe it because of the source?
Whatevs.
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So, what are you planning on doing with all your free time once NIL legislation is passed and CFB is overwhelmed with tats and weed? ‘Cause I presume you won’t lower yourself to watch anymore.
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Doubling down on the logical fallacies today?
Just because Lane says it, doesn’t mean its wrong.
Just because someone objects to professionalism in college sports based on stupid reasons like “tats and weed” doesn’t mean it forms any part of the foundation of my objections to it. They bear no relationship to each other.
I’ll stick around long enough for this really dumb idea to implode and be replaced and see where we are then.
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Ooh, you mean we don’t have that now? (Outside of D-II and D-III, that is…)
Logical fallacies are so cool, man.
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We have Nazis now. I object to them.
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so by NOT answering the question(how is purchasing recruits by boosters going to be “managed”?) and just attacking the source I imply or infer (I always have problems with these two words) that you don’t know either.
Lane said “water is wet” and we can’t believe it because of the source?
It pains me no end to agree with Derek but both he and the Laner are right.This purchasing of 5 stat recruits will both make NCAA football even more like the NFL minor leagues and make the rich large fan bases the best tool a school can have(i.e. the rich get richer) I don’t want that at all. Keep the payola under the table where it belongs.Hypocrisy is the compliment virtue pays to vice….said by some French guy.
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I’ve posted several times about what the NCAA is considering doing. Maybe you should go back and read those.
I didn’t say you can’t believe it. I said he’s hypocritical — unless you really believe he’s never been associated with a program that paid kids under the table.
The rest of your comment is simply “I don’t want to watch the sausage being made”. More power to you. Sounds like a great reason to treat college athletes differently than you’d expect to be treated. Then again, being an amateurism romantic these days is, at heart, about being selfish.
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Were you calling people selfish in the late seventies or early eighties when the game was the same? If so ok. If not then I would suggest to you that it is not the model you are uncomfortable with but the size of the $ numbers.
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Why does he care if a booster wants to waste a million bucks on a recruit (as long as the recruit has legal representation to hold the booster accountable). It’s just a lot of bullshit posturing. The schools are just worried that the boosters will not pay for the next level up of the Magill society.
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That’s the short term concern. Longer term one is that the concept of player compensation becomes normalized such that public is okay with any source of comp, including from schools.
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Good thing there’s no cost of attendance stipend or anything where the schools were already paying the players directly. Sure would make them look silly.
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Call me biased but my thoughts is till you do your job you don’t get paid. I feel a common ground should be met, price fixing if you will. When you go to the grocery you pay X amount of $$ for a case of beer. You don’t get the beer till it’s paid for. Set a simple limit that’s income gained for the 3 years these WHAT 11-12 athletes on a squad of 85 scholarships and 20-30 walkons. UGA had how many forgo for the draft. 3 ! Made good lifetime money. The rest have a shot not at a degree but at catching on special teams or a practice squad.
How about since these are student athletes ? Where has the rule gone that says to be eligible you have to have certain numbered hours toward graduation. Now if a kid wants to sign a deal with the local Ford dealership for $25,000 that’s great but put a cap per year AT ALL SCHOOLS of say $15,000 for the year for endorsements, autographs and appearances. Only in that 3rd. year a amount of hours toward a degree must be met or the remainder of the acquired money goes back in a players fund and equally divided among every player including walk one’s. If he is injured fine he still gets the $15,000 as long as grades toward graduation is met. He sits out the bowl game the money goes into the players fund. If you don’t you have the NFLjr.
This is going to be totally insane. Not that under the table has not gone on or Nike directed players to certain team through 5* camps or AAU games. I can’t or wouldn’t coach a team where 8-10 guys in football, 3 in basketball and two pitchers and short stop is getting paid $80,000 a year and the guy next to him is eating out of a vending machine on the weekend.
What and where would you have been if you made $80,000 as a freshman in college. I didn’t have any money and I was extremely lucky and blessed to get through all 4 years without being locked up or killed. Just THINK !
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