SIAP - Sign of the times
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It’s amazing how quickly this escalated. We went from star players not being able to afford food to them making more in a year than most people in a lifetime. Feels like they over corrected.
Give it 5-10 yrs and there will be an outcry from former athletes talking about the difficulties of adjusting to life after athletics.
Many were making north of 6 figures while attending college and now they have been forced to file bankruptcy while looking for employment.
The 30 for 30 Broke will apply to more than just a small segment of professional athletes.
Many were making north of 6 figures while attending college and now they have been forced to file bankruptcy while looking for employment.
The 30 for 30 Broke will apply to more than just a small segment of professional athletes.
jmw ... as a 77-year-old poster and die-hard Kentucky Wildcats fan (which really has nothing to do with the point I'm going to make) ... In my experience, all of life is a series of over-corrections. We live; we learn; we recognize our mistakes; we sincerely try to correct (and sometimes "atone for") our mistakes; and ... voila' ... out of nothing other than a sincere desire to correct our mistakes - we constantly over-correct. For me, my entire life has included a process or learning how to "correct my mistakes", without "overcorrecting". I'm still learning. And all of that may be worth exactly what you paid for it. 
Go 'Cats ! ! !
Go 'Cats ! ! !
It’s too much for me. I can’t support it
The "correct correction" is to get academic institutions out of the entertainment business. Walla. The hypocrisy is gone. The disproportional allocation of resources is gone.
I don't have any psychological investment in names on a jersey or in the bureaucracy which oversees the games.
Not just for "show"---nil deal was signed 2 years ago--for a running back
sportsnaut.com
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Texas running back Bijan Robinson signs Lamborghini NIL deal
We've heard of extravagant NIL deals for college athletes but Texas Longhorns running back Bijan Robinson's Lamborghini agreement might take the cake.
sportsnaut.com
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Seems to be a regular "reward" for outstanding performance--
"they suggest that players get to drive a Lamborghini as long as they are in Texas, with about 4-5 players from the team receiving a lease for a Lamborghini each year, usually given to veteran leaders with about a year of college ball left.
There’s also a viewpoint that this might be the first time a transfer player has received a Lamborghini deal. It’s believed that if a player underperforms, they could lose this privilege. The Lamborghini is seen as a privilege rather than a right to join the Texas team."
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"they suggest that players get to drive a Lamborghini as long as they are in Texas, with about 4-5 players from the team receiving a lease for a Lamborghini each year, usually given to veteran leaders with about a year of college ball left.
There’s also a viewpoint that this might be the first time a transfer player has received a Lamborghini deal. It’s believed that if a player underperforms, they could lose this privilege. The Lamborghini is seen as a privilege rather than a right to join the Texas team."
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When was the last time you heard of a player being academically ineligible LOL?
Only when said player is coming to UK to make us favorites.
Yeah, I don't think these recruits get to take them home. Not sure why this is a sign of the apocalypse. Some of these will get a lease worth $20,000. But context doesn't feed the outrage centers of the brain.
College students make stupid decisions in a Corolla. What could possibly go wrong in a Lambo? And I'm sure thieves aren't aware that a college athlete isn't packing a firearm either.
I'm waiting for the lawsuit that says you can't do this because it harms a students earning potential.
Such bullshit. I hate what we’ve become.
Student athlete as a term died when they let UNC skate on decades of academic fraud.Why that’s a great term you coined there friend. Genius.
Because it’s tacky. We have teachers, firemen, police, EMS that work their ass of and are treated like dirt. Yet catch a ball and get a Lambo for awhile.
I understand that’s what the market is deciding. Just expressing I think the market sucks.
What context, friend, are you referring to? Is it the 6-7 figure salary they’re making from NIL? Or is it the full-ride scholarship, valued around 50-80k/year (more or less depending on the school)? Or is it the free room and board? Wait, are we also not considering that their meals and books are also paid for? Or is it that posters are forgetting they also get free tutoring sessions and they also stay in higher quality dorms that are secluded from the rest of the campus?
It is absolutely ridiculous that people, who have never contributed anything significant to society, or their community, get to go to school for free, get fed for free, get free room and board, free books, free tutors, separate and higher level living accommodations (free), AND get a free lambo and a 6-7 figure salary to boot.
But yeah, we lack context.
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I'd hate to be the guy that puts up better numbers at Podunk U than the Lambo kids
Those lambo kids are going to get introduced to a cutthroat world at a very early age.
while I recognize that world was going away well before NIL, there was a time where being a college athlete, regardless of whether you turned into a stat stuffer or not, mean you were part of the team and you'd continue to work and try to get better , and then you'd graduate and be honored for your commitment to the program.
An Alex Poythress wouldn't stay 4 years at a Calipari run program now, or many others programs for that matter. He wouldn't be welcome to do so. There is too much at stake.
and that's a shame
Those lambo kids are going to get introduced to a cutthroat world at a very early age.
while I recognize that world was going away well before NIL, there was a time where being a college athlete, regardless of whether you turned into a stat stuffer or not, mean you were part of the team and you'd continue to work and try to get better , and then you'd graduate and be honored for your commitment to the program.
An Alex Poythress wouldn't stay 4 years at a Calipari run program now, or many others programs for that matter. He wouldn't be welcome to do so. There is too much at stake.
and that's a shame
Yeah. I'm a capitalist through and through and am all about the free market. But it shows that people's priorities really do suck.
Should family members of former college athletes be awarded reparation payments since their ancestors weren’t paid like todays athletes?
I know you’re being tongue in cheek but I’m surprised it hasn’t been tried yet.
Yet here you are, a regular poster on a college athletics fan site. 🤷♂️
We're going to see more of the Rashee Rice-type stuff that we saw a couple months ago with players be reckless with their new toys. Unfortunately, there's probably going to be some situations that end up a lot worse than that was though.
Henry Ruggs, doesn’t get much worse than drinking and driving and killing an innocent woman in Vegas in his Vette.
I'm real old and am used to things going bye-bye. If Kentucky sports went away, I'd just do something else.
UofL pulled a similar stunt a while back.
https://stateoflouisville.com/louis...the-new-standard-for-college-official-visits/
https://stateoflouisville.com/louis...the-new-standard-for-college-official-visits/
Personally, I would get the most reliable car on the road and put the rest of the money into a retirement account but, that is just me😊….
I won't bother watching. I'm not going to contribute to this shit show. Not on my conscience.
The more time goes by....and the older I become, the less interested I am in society and culture. I know every generation basically says that, but doesn't it just feel like the downward spiral has picked up a lot of steam in the last 20 years?
Over correction? They went from non market based compensation (scholly's and food) to market based compensation. In a capitalist environment, you're worth what the market will pay you. Nobody bats and eye when a coach signs a huge contract, but let some minority kids get paid and watch everyone cry about how bad things have gotten.
You might joke but the NCAA is facing a lawsuit on this very issue which is triggering the ability of universities to pay players. Players who were not able to get NIL have sued the NCAA for deprivation of earnings potential and there will be a multi-billion dollar settlement going toward them (which will be multi-million when the lawyers get their cut).
