Jimbo Fisher on NIL deals
- Thread starter Smashcat
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And he's sort of dead on accurate with that statement. Now all can cheat openly is all this boils down to.
[Pete Bell] We gave a kid a tractor?!?![/Pete Bell]
Pete Bell was the fictional character played by Nick Nolte in the 1994 movie "Blue Chips". He was a coach modelled after Bobby Knight that got caught up a in a recruiting scandal following a losing season.
YES!!!!
That's why it kills me when you have the most gullible fans saying "My team doesn't do that." Uh, yes, your team does that. College athletics is nothing but corruption financially and in the classroom. It has been happening at every major program and even the small ones too.
Yes, your coach was shady. Yes, your players got cars and cash and bogus jobs and homes for their families. Yes, most of the football players and basketball players have bogus grades and other people do their work for their online courses.
The people who legitimately believe this wasn't going on at their school are the equivalent of being an adult who still believes in Santa.
Are you saying Santa doesn’t exist? But But but… I just saw his fat ass at the mall.
I can’t see how anyone can look at the NIL situation and not think it’s very bad for college football. It may benefit our team and those in the SEC, but overall the sport will be much worse off.
Who can forget the Alabama football players and their cars? You all should talk to people who knew Damien Harris in high school and were on the Bama recruiting trip with him.
https://totalfratmove.com/tfm/alabama-football-is-the-best-car-dealership-in-the-country/
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I was on campus for a game and saw Gerald Fitch driving out of parking lot in a tricked out SUV...and he was never really a bigtime basketball guard IMO. But even old Tubby had $$$ going out in his days even if he never knew it.
Not sure what you mean- I don’t think the issues will happen overnight, if that’s your point.
If it's done in the open and not against the rules, it's not cheating.
They were given to some recruit.
How you gonna cap what an outside business wants to give to someone lol I mean there’s no way anyone is gonna win that in court
Don’t know about the others but Jeddrick Wills drove a tricked out Escalade the whole time he was at Bama.
I don’t know how… Don’t know about legal ramifications… I just think it’s dumb shit… I don’t like broccoli either but it’s okay if you like…..
Great insight! I don't know how and I don't think why I want to limit what a kid and business can do...but it's dumb shit nonetheless.
Prob don't "own" the vehicles but leased. Unc was doing this. Duke let's parents live in mansions
So is our whole economic system dumb? Is there a call on what you are allowed to earn.
Nobody knew, because Nobody told Nobody. Nobody is to blame. Punish Nobody. Nobody talking to himself again!
No it benefits the guys who are actually doing the work. Nothing has changed. The best teams are still the best team. Smaller schools still can’t put recruit the big schools. People just don’t like it because it’s not a secret anymore.
Are you arguing that there isn’t and never has been amateur athletics? I can understand taking either side on NIL, but your point makes no sense.
Texas, A&M and OU to an extent will do very well when oil prices are up, when they are down not as good. But creating the fund for kids to sign with your school was suppose to be a no no, but things escalated so fast that it was done before being addressed and like that toothpaste and the tube, it's not going back. The 50k signing bonus is directly against the rules. Texas is hoping to have their FIL fund up to 100m by next Dec. You know A&M will match that because they don't want to look like the poor cousins
Wait a minute, you are trying to tell me there is no Santa, that I have been good sll year for nothing?
NIL and the transfer portal are gonna hurt the smaller schools. Let's say you have a lightly recruited player that suddenly blows up, for instance Konata Mumpfield. He's not gonna stay at Akron for peanuts. He's gonna put his name in the portal and then sign with the highest bidder.
I think the top ranked recruit going to a HBCU this year kinda refutes that. Imagine if the Ivy's got serious about NIL. All the alums working at hedge funds, Wall Street, private equity firms, etc could easily pay more than some booster in Tuscaloosa.
Yup...the portal was once thought would be mainly for kids that were not starters and wanted a new life at another program (like Will Levis). But it's nearly as much dudes basically putting a "for sale" sign out there to get a better NIL deal than the former.
Deion has enough money to pay that kid to stick around.
Yup. I read speculation it was Barstool money that’s coming from their sports betting partner.
