The future of NIL?
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While I have come around on NIL, and I recognize the legality of it, he’s not wrong. If you say that you enjoy college athletics as much as you did pre-NIL, you’re lying.
Pure sensationalism… an athlete will still need to be able to perform as an athlete to keep his/her position on the team.
He has a problem with athletes driving Bentleys, but did he ever have a problem with privileged children of billionaires getting around campus in a new Porsche?
The greater issues are:
1. Ensuring the athletes still maintain student status - something the NCAA has failed at since well before NIL
2. Maintaining legitimacy of NIL deals - a job for the dept of revenue I guess
3. Cleaning up the portal situation…. Somehow!
He has a problem with athletes driving Bentleys, but did he ever have a problem with privileged children of billionaires getting around campus in a new Porsche?
The greater issues are:
1. Ensuring the athletes still maintain student status - something the NCAA has failed at since well before NIL
2. Maintaining legitimacy of NIL deals - a job for the dept of revenue I guess
3. Cleaning up the portal situation…. Somehow!
I wouldn't recommend anyone using a politician to try to make a point. If anything, I would be more likely to change my position to be against whatever the politician is in favor of.
Rand Paul has been throwing out racist dogwhistles long before these comments. Rand was the only member of congress to vote against honoring the Civil Rights bills on their anniversary in 2004. He has also stated in the past he believes businesses should be allowed to segregate. In 2009 his campaign spokesman was discovered to have racist messages and images on his social media. In 2011 he released a book with a cowriter who spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist.
I'd personally love to see players and coaches from Kentucky, Western Kentucky, and Louisville stand up to that racist jerk the way Dean Smith stood up to racists in the past.
If you can't hear the racist BS coming from his mouth you are as pathetic as he is.
Rand Paul is an angry guy. Smart guy. But angry. Shouldn’t we all appreciate the way he sh*t on that criminal Fauci?
I commented on the NIL, which is what I thought the original poast was about. If that’s not the discussion you were intending, then what was the point of this thread? To show how easily triggered you are?
Lol. You continue to show everyone how soft you are.
There's a reason he said "rap stars driving Bentleys" and not "movie stars" or any other generic term about wealth. He's long proven he's a racist and that was an obvious dog whistle.
Take a good hard look at anyone trying to defend Rand Paul, or trying to take the conversation off topic. They are showing you who they are at their core.
Yes, triggered while unmasking.
I knew I wouldn't be disappointed with a response by you and a few other white hoods that lurk around here.
Thanks👍
Rand Paul is a smart guy-often wrong minded but smart! Nevertheless, this comment does have unfortunate baggage and simply obfuscates his argument. Comparing bball stars to Rap stars obviously has racial undertones AND I would like to know why anyone would have a problem with a youngster driving a luxury car! NOW if he wants to say that the addition of vast sums of money is hurting college athletics and the NCAA is doing a terrible job policing its only mandate-well then I agree! BUT I have no problem whatsoever with peeps profiting off their own likenesses since this is the very foundation of our great, Capitalist nation! (can you really call yourself American and believe differently?) My problem is the lack of oversight, foresight, hindsight, or any other kind of scrutiny before simply opening the floodgates! BTW: I do not consider it racist but it does show an appalling lack of cultural sensitivity or an abundance of ignorance!
Not to digress, but I didn't know anyone thought Fauci was a criminal-did I miss something?
Not to digress, but I didn't know anyone thought Fauci was a criminal-did I miss something?
That is a solid poast. I agree with most of it.
As for your comment about why anyone would have a problem with teenagers driving luxury cars, here's what I'll say to that. There's nothing inherently wrong with it. But first of all, it seems backwards that we are rewarding kids that haven't done anything of any significance. Oooh, you balled out in high school? That doesn't impress me much. And it shouldn't impress any of us really. But whatever. More power to the kid that can squeeze a Mercedes out of somebody for nothing, I guess. Secondly, giving luxury items and loads of cash to teenagers (many of whom come from families that aren't accustom to having money) can often lead to irresponsible behavior. Teenagers' brains are still developing. And without a good support system, bad decision making happens easily, especially when one thinks they're king of the hill. Lastly, the perception is bad. We have people that work their whole lives, have graduated college and pay rent and bills, raise kids and they drive a bucket. And here some 18 year old that's simply gifted athletically but has contributed nothing to society is whipping around in a G-Wagon. Just doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Again, I acknowledge the legality of it and I begrudgingly am in favor of these students being able to make money. The bigger problem is one of society's as a whole - that we value college athletics at the level in which we feel the need to pay kids money to play it. It's just a devolution of society's prioritization.
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LoL, OK, so moving past the dog whistles of racisms and to the actual point I think this thread was intended for. I am fine with college players being able to be paid for their NIL but NIL is supposed to be the ability for a kid to be able to have endorsement deals and as long as that does not conflict with his responsibilities as a player or student, grab that cash, don't blame them at all.
But NIL is NOT supposed to be about a kid being paid to play for a particular school, it is not supposed to make all programs like Ky and duke where players have been paid big money for many years to commit. I do not like the "collectives" because they are really nothing more than a way of paying players to play, coaches nor the schools should have anything to do with NIL, they should not steer a kid in any way toward a NIL, the school and the coaching staffs, as well as boosters should in no way be involved but they are and they are at pretty much every school now days. They are because the NCAA has refused to do a single thing about it, it is almost as if they are afraid to enforce their rules now?
Don't bother to tell me that the NCAA is about to do something about all of this, I have been hearing this for years, time for a new mantra because that one is proven played. I don't care what kind of car a player drives, I assume a kid that gets a few million in NIL is going to drive a nice ride. But I don't think schools should be involved in supplying money to a kid and NIL was not put in place to pave the way for breaking NCAA rules that apply to paying kids to play for a particular program and it should be enforced just this way. Yet we now have boosters that PUBLICALLY share that they are paying players to play for their school and the NCAA doing nothing about it is endorsing it. If the NCAA is as is now the case, completely ignoring their single enforcement responsibility then what good are they?
But NIL is NOT supposed to be about a kid being paid to play for a particular school, it is not supposed to make all programs like Ky and duke where players have been paid big money for many years to commit. I do not like the "collectives" because they are really nothing more than a way of paying players to play, coaches nor the schools should have anything to do with NIL, they should not steer a kid in any way toward a NIL, the school and the coaching staffs, as well as boosters should in no way be involved but they are and they are at pretty much every school now days. They are because the NCAA has refused to do a single thing about it, it is almost as if they are afraid to enforce their rules now?
Don't bother to tell me that the NCAA is about to do something about all of this, I have been hearing this for years, time for a new mantra because that one is proven played. I don't care what kind of car a player drives, I assume a kid that gets a few million in NIL is going to drive a nice ride. But I don't think schools should be involved in supplying money to a kid and NIL was not put in place to pave the way for breaking NCAA rules that apply to paying kids to play for a particular program and it should be enforced just this way. Yet we now have boosters that PUBLICALLY share that they are paying players to play for their school and the NCAA doing nothing about it is endorsing it. If the NCAA is as is now the case, completely ignoring their single enforcement responsibility then what good are they?
Rand Paul is a lil racist prick who deserved the ass kickin his neighbor gave him and like all those that don the hood, he is a spineless coward.
Slinger-that was one of the most thorough and well thought out posts I've ever seen on here!
I understand how people could feel jealous or feel put out when youngsters live a life of luxury, but I don't hear the same complaints about tennis stars (as young as 13); child actors, or peeps who inherit! None of them did any more than a bball players and the heirs did absolutely nothing! I look at mansions when I drive by and wish I could live there, but I've never even thought that the person that does shouldn't be able to! I agree that it could potentially ruin college athletics but the flip side is; the powers that be did that when they monetized it to the point that it is a billion dollar industry! The players should get a piece of the pie and should never be limited as to how much they can earn until we take the money out completely! If a coach can get paid 10s of millions, a player should get a Benz! If media outlets lineup to sign billion dollar contracts to televise the games, players should get mansions!
I understand how people could feel jealous or feel put out when youngsters live a life of luxury, but I don't hear the same complaints about tennis stars (as young as 13); child actors, or peeps who inherit! None of them did any more than a bball players and the heirs did absolutely nothing! I look at mansions when I drive by and wish I could live there, but I've never even thought that the person that does shouldn't be able to! I agree that it could potentially ruin college athletics but the flip side is; the powers that be did that when they monetized it to the point that it is a billion dollar industry! The players should get a piece of the pie and should never be limited as to how much they can earn until we take the money out completely! If a coach can get paid 10s of millions, a player should get a Benz! If media outlets lineup to sign billion dollar contracts to televise the games, players should get mansions!
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