I disagreed because it would take a lot more money than that to ever go work for someone else again. Being able to work for myself on my terms is worth at least $10 million in my book.
Jefferson NOT gone.
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I disagreed because it would take a lot more money than that to ever go work for someone else again. Being able to work for myself on my terms is worth at least $10 million in my book.
I was being sarcastic as we "stole" him from another school
But where do you get this info? Not taking a shot at ya just really want to know where I could find it.
Agreed. I said this a while back, but could you imagine if the NBA or NFL allowed every player to be unrestricted free agents after each season AND having no salary cap? That’s the landscape of college sports right now. Something needs to change
I’ve been in banks that have started talking to me and then asked me what it would take for me to come back into the business and my exact responses were, you cant afford me, I enjoy being my own boss too much.
Besides I would now be an awful employee as I would do what I thought was best and maybe not what they told me.
I noted at the time it’s easy to say I’m all in after a tough loss. After some reflection and a $2-3 offer, makes that decision a bit more difficult. It’s not a question of loyalty. It’s doing right for yourself. He put in the work. He should reap the reward. But, the portal giveth and taketh away I guess.
It really is sad to see the greed continuing to spiral out of control in college sports. I don't blame these players one bit for wanting to get paid though. NIL is not the only aspect of the downward spiral, look at how quickly sports gambling on college sports has expanded over the past few years. Now players and coaches are getting death threats from gamblers who lost money, and there is also increasing pressure from those paying these players. College sports have truly turned into a full professional business for all, and the sad thing is it's at the expense of 18-22 year olds. I have read countless stories lately about these athletes needing therapy to work thru the increasing pressures facing them. The $'s are not all roses and there is going to reach a point where there is backlash and eventually sweeping regulation...fingers crossed.
LSU. What is the NCAA for at this point. No rules to follow so what’s the point of them
No idea, just repeating what several have posted. There is a lot of peeing into the wind and seeing how it lands right now.
The average G league player is typically better than somebody like Josh Dix yet making a tiny fraction of the $.
The reason it's upsidedown is the college athletics laundry is so valuable and the laundry is valuable because of the money invested by students in their tuition and often tax payers funding the school. It's really messed up.
The biggest problem is 100% of these pros being one year unrestricted free agents. If programs can't have multi year revenue sharing/NIL deals with teeth, the NCAA needs to do something to restrict transfers. A player would still be free to attend college anywhere they get accepted, just not play sports there if their contract precludes it.
If there must be no transfer rules, at least some of these transfers should be on 2 or 3 year deals. Like pro sports sometimes a deal will be a total bust, but it will give programs some stability.
Weird, I haven't seen anything on tigerdroppings.com which is their insider forum
This is where I am at. The current NIL is set up for the have money schools to just run crazy over everyone else. There needs to be some rules to this madness. Maybe when a player agrees to go to a school he has to be there 2 years? IE you can't play 4 years at 4 different schools and be a mercenary.
I'd leave for $3 million. Don't blame him one bit. Can we stop calling it NIL at this point?
