NiJaree Canady: College softball's first million-dollar player
Palo Alto to Lubbock: Inside why NiJaree Canady transferred to Texas Tech.
Texas Tech- One million for a softball player. NIL is out of control.
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Texas Tech- One million for a softball player. NIL is out of control.
This is actually awesome. She has no real future earnings potential outside of this so if some rich donor wants to pay her that’s absolutely incredibleNiJaree Canady: College softball's first million-dollar player
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Texas Tech- One million for a softball player. NIL is out of control.
I am not blaming her in the least bit. I am merely pointing out the craziness of NIL with no guardrails.
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Didn’t go far enough to see if she graduated before TT. If not, a TT degree is……like…….WAY BELOW a Stanford degree.
Not a million in the bank below, especially for whatever student athlete degree she was getting
I’m guessing Stanfords student athlete career fair is a little higher end than techs.
She transferred after her sophomore season.
I don't know how much transferring changed whatever her lifetime earnings was going to end up being, but TTU is giving her a one million dollar headstart on it for just one year of softball. And her name alone now is probably worth more than the Stanford degree. Seems worth it to me.
Completely agree with this. Good for her and if someone wants to pay $1M with the current rules, that’s fine. But this clearly isn’t paying for NIL and is just pay for play.
Paying for her name to be on the back of a TT jersey duh
Great point. And they also have her image on the athletics website. It all checks out!
This isn’t necessarily directed at you but i still get a chuckle when people bang the table for true NIL and not pay for play.
It was always going to be pay for play from the second it went into effect. It’s a little naive for anyone to have ever thought otherwise.
Tax information isn't publicly available. For example I can't request your tax records from the IRS without your signature, so why would a college athlete's be any different.
I always chuckle a lit when people talk about the bandwagon fans from Alabama. At least the ones in the State of Alabama are Alabama fans from birth or a young age when they declare for Alabama or Auburn. They don't sit there and waffle back and forth over the years due to good years, bad years, etc. A better way to put it would be how will the grumpy Alabama fans handle the NIL world when things slip a bit in the post-Saban Era.
My guess is they will figure it out like they did in the late '50s (which led to Bryant), early '90s (which led to Stallings) and mid '00s (which led to Saban). They literally started Tide Pride in the '80s (Perkins-Curry Era) to pay for the BDS Stadium expansion projects which ultimately led to the 60,000 stadium expanding to the current 100,000 stadium once the writing was on the wall for the death of Legion Field (83,000) in Birmingham (which they used for their bigger games at the time).
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It’s the ones outside the state of Alabama that I’m talking about. There are certainly a lot of local fans that will be fans forever. But Saban made Alabama a national brand. That’s at risk of losing the steam. And the question is whether the local fans or the national fans are the ones funding the multi-million dollar NIL deals.
The National fans only matter for eyeballs (which is important), but the local folks who buy the tickets and pay for Tide Pride (which is required to buy season tickets) are what is really important IMO. They will be fine.
It's gonna be very interesting to see how TT's football season plays out. Between the incredibly high expectations and the challenges of having very unequal distribution of money among all their players, I can see some big challenges ahead.
I guess these are what you'd call good problems, but they are still challenges.
I guess these are what you'd call good problems, but they are still challenges.
