Texas offensive linemen offered $50,000 annual NIL deal - Sports Illustrated
A number of Longhorn players could cash in next season.
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Texas NIL $50k per year for every scholarship lineman
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This came across my news feed so I thought I would post the link here.
$50,000 annually for use of their name, image and likeness to support charitable causes, a new nonprofit entity announced Monday.
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That’s great and all, but does anyone else think throwing all this money at 18-year-olds is just going to make Texas’s culture problems worse? I mean, I’m not worried about this making Texas more competitive on the field, not even a little bit.
Imagine the actual good you could do with 800k a year directly to a charity
Lol, getting talented players is not the problem at Texas. Throwing more and more money at the problem hasn't worked yet but they just keep on doing it.
So a charity/non profit is going to pay 15-20 players 50k/yr for the use of their names. Seems legit.
Oh no! Now Texas is going to get all the best line recruits in the state of Texas.... oh, wait...
Yeah, right, like Texas players are going to take a pay cut to get paid “above board” 
CycloneErik
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$50,000 annually for use of their name, image and likeness to support charitable causes, a new nonprofit entity announced Monday.
Nice catch.
I get all the jokes about "what is texas going to do with all the best recruits, etc", but this just feels so wrong and corrupt. Tell me how this is ok again?
The problem I have with this is its just the start. When is 150k per lineman going to turn into 1M?
its going to get out of control fast without governance.
The problem I have with this is its just the start. When is 150k per lineman going to turn into 1M?
its going to get out of control fast without governance.
Love when people who had the opinion of - student athletes already get a free degree, plenty of side benefits, free meals for 4+ years, free travel experiences for 4+ years, might be enough..... were typically met with "ok boomer", or "PAY THE ATHLETES" type responses.
Well when texas gets a payroll to pay lineman which is disguised as a charity organization, this is where I get lost as a fan. Of course we knew crap like this would happen. Ruining the sport in my opinion.
In my opinion schools switching conferences and coaches jumping schools for higher payouts are ruining the sport far more than a college kid making some bank off of his contributions.
Kind of a wild thought but do college coaches need a salary cap? Would be hard to scale and implement but I don't hate the idea. At the highest level they now make double what nfl coaches earn.
I think its a combination of this and the absurd payments that have been discussed.
I just don't see a world where coaches getting 10-20M per year, Players can pretty much transfer at will, and you can pay players (in whatever indirect way the schools/donors lawyers figure out) hundreds of thousands of dollars or more being good for teams like Iowa state. Would love to be wrong, but I can't see it helping
I guess when this NIL stuff came out i thought there would be some restrictions so it didn't turn into a sh*t show. What would have been so wrong with at least trying to cap the player annual income at like 50K or something? There is a big difference between a player making a few thousand on a Fabo's pizza commercial or Applebee's than doing absolutely nothing, calling it a charity and getting 150K as a base salary.
at this point you could probably just get rid of the NCAA and scholarship rules.
I bet TJ could put together a pretty nice squad if you gave him a 5 million dollar NIL fund to get 5-6 players to Ames.
We are not even a year into this and this crap is happening. A "charity".....lol..
