2025 NFL Draft
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This is 100% a Jimmy Haslam (owner of Browns) move. My wife is a diehard Browns fan, so I follow them pretty closely. She called after Thursday's round 1 that he would make this pick. It was his call to draft Johnny Manziel (because he wanted attention and jersey sales), his call to draft Baker Mayfield, his call to bring in Deshaun Watson, his call to let Joe Flacco go after he had taken them to the playoffs 2 years ago, and this was his call. The guy is one of the worst owners in sports and all he seems to really care about is getting attention and trying to sell jerseys. He's exactly like Jerry Jones, he just isn't as high profile. Browns fans hate him.
That’s kinda the entire point of why NIL came into being. It’s actually a really good look
I’m referring to going from Zero to 10 Million miles per hour in an instant. You know, for student-Athletes.
I’m not getting your 0-10 million miles per hour reference, apologies.
I’ll try again and say players making more in NIL than they do in the pros is a good thing for the athlete and the sport in general.
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Agreed. The current NIL landscape shows how much value these athletes have. Take a guy like Quinn Ewers. If the reports are true, and he turned down an $8 million NIL deal to enter the draft, it blows even the proposed $22 million revenue sharing "Cap" from the House settlement out of the water.
Perfect,
So why have a limit on eligibility?
Why have classes or degrees?
They can stay forever if they want at Professional U. Not go to class and just Play.
That would be good for the athletes!
Way to completely overshoot the topic and just throw things out that no one is discussing. Honestly well done and impressive how off topic and out of left field that post was. Unless you started naming random zoo animals or your favorite take out order I don’t think you could have been more random
Those are fair questions. If the NCAA cannot limit someone's earning potential, how can they limit their eligibility?
What a family. Reid played basketball at Stanford, then Kentucky. Jonah Travis played basketball at Harvard. Jalen football at Princeton, Iowa State and now the NFL. All 6'-6" and up. Their sister also played D1 basketball and is now a coach for Western Illinois.
Also completely off topic from what we were discussing. He said players making less money in the NFL vs through NIL on college was a bad thing I said it’s the opposite and purpose of NIL. No one said anything about eligibility or anything else he added on.
Personally I don’t. NIL paying more then the pros in some cases is excellent because often you can have incredible college athletes that for various reasons just don’t translate well to the pros yet brought in huge sums of money for the school and a ton of enjoyment for the fans. That’s what I was responding to. Nothing about eligibility or capping NIL funds. Those are fine to have separate conversations on but wasn’t really on topic.
You felt like you needed to comment.
I am proving my point , about 0-10 million miles per hour.
Student Athletes went from making Zero money (legally) to making literally an infinite amount of money. Can play for schools that are the highest bidder. With no cap, very little and unenforceable rules. They can have an infinite amount of agents or representatives, which have no official title or monitoring. Even compared to professional sports which have caps, rules, and guidelines.
That is Zero to 10 Million.
My comment about eligibility and classes is not random. It poses a line of questioning for proponents of an Un-checked NIL system….where the next level of NIL can head.
All for the benefit of Student-Athletes
I also note you call them Arhletes and not student athletes.
The State can tell me how fast I can drive, but not how far. How can this be? Either all rules or no rules.
Ahh I get where you’re coming from better now. Also I call them athletes instead of student athletes just because it’s shorter, didn’t really think I needed to qualify when obviously talking about college.
Yep I’m very much ok with athletes getting paid whatever people wish to pay them. Think the highest amounts even reported were around 10 mil which isn’t really infinite by any means and if some super rich donor wants to throw money around like that go ahead. The schools are making plenty of cash off them for years so I have no issues with it.
Transfer portal is wild as many of these guys go unclaimed and essentially doom themselves but I don’t have an issue with it. Many guys who are productive at power programs chose to stay because of that productivity and desire to go to the NFL.
I mean should Higgins have been doomed to play at eastern Kentucky and go over looked by most scouts or did he deserve a shot to play in the P4 and earn a spot in the second round? Didn’t see to much handwringing about the transfer portal when he was being drafted earlier in this thread.
I’m not worried about the eligibility issue at all, that’s just a made up scare tactic, interesting thought experiment but just not happening.
Hope I'm wrong as wrong gets, but I'm concerned with CMC. He redefines high mileage back despite being kinda "young."
No/little help for Brock is concerning.
