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This NIL crap is ridiculous. Out here getting $80,000 plus vehicles for free, millions of dollars for nothing basically, and regular students are struggling to survive. It’s insane

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Anonymous 6w

Students that make the deans list or honors list should get 10k every time they do and not in the form of scholarships

Anonymous 6w

I don’t see you making 12+ sacks a season. Get on the line !

Anonymous 6w

Terrible take. NIL is a private transaction between two individuals. If a business person wanted to hire a student for a part time job at that person’s company, would you still have a problem?

Anonymous 6w

Go make your school money

Anonymous 6w

college football is a billion dollar industry and athletes spent years risking their bodies to hold it up it when it was illegal to pay them a dime; them now getting compensated for their value is hardly the biggest problem facing the sport

Anonymous 6w

How much money are you generating for your school? Alrighty then

Anonymous 6w

And they bring millions to the university in tickets, concessions, brand deals, and tv revenue.

Anonymous 6w

I mean I think it’s hurting college sports from a fan perspective but I personally find it way more ridiculous that the media networks, schools, and conferences were generating hundreds of millions of dollars of these athletes without them getting even a sliver of that pie. College athletes who are generating that kind of money are doing far from “nothing basically” from an economic standpoint and I think should be compensated to reflect that

Anonymous 6w

I dont think you understand why NIL exists. It exists because those students are putting their entire future careers at risk to play football. Playing college football at a high level requires putting all your eggs in that one basket, and a single injury would prevent them from ever going pro. NIL exists to compensate for that risk.

Anonymous 6w

I think it’s fine (to an extent). These athletes generate millions a year, and they should be able to be compensated more than just “school tuition + living expenses.”

Anonymous 6w

All I’m gonna say is this stuff is ridiculous. If they were paid reasonably then I could maybe understand. But the amount they’re getting paid and what they’re getting for free is ridiculous and it’s gotta change. Not to mention it’s completely ruining the sport on top of everything.

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Anonymous

#4 6w

Will Hammond and Brendan Sorsby would make Tech the same amount of money despite one costing millions more than the other. While I agree with your point the market value on some of these guys is not accurate to the potential ROI imo.

Anonymous

#6 6w

Yeah that’s why it’s called an investment, not everything you put money into is a guaranteed positive ROI, same way there is certainly athletes that step up and play above their pay grade any given year. And in Texas Tech case specifically, their donors arn’t missing the money

Anonymous

#6 6w

No, QB is the most important position and Tech struggled the most at the spot last year. If they had a better QB, they would go further in the CFP and generate more money for Texas Tech and the Big 12

Anonymous

agent_cartman 6w

Yeah but I work 30 hours a week and go to school full time. They don’t have to do anything actually productive.

Anonymous

#5 6w

Kinda hard to do when I’m trying to survive myself

Anonymous

#3 6w

No because they would have an actual job. If the number was more reasonable I could maybe justify it but being paid millions of dollars for that? Insane

Anonymous

#9 6w

They chose to do that. Not my problem. Could’ve chosen something else.

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Anonymous

#10 6w

I could understand them making something, but the fact that they’re getting luxury vehicles for free, getting paid millions on top of that, and everything else they’re getting? That’s ridiculous

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Anonymous

#4 6w

How much money am I generating? About 20k a year in what I pay them. Next question please

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Anonymous

OP 6w

“Not my problem” shows a crazy lack of awareness and says more about you than it does NIL. NIL isnt for you. It wasnt made for you. It does not revolve around you. It is a contract between the Schools and the athletes, funded by alumni separately from academics. Despite your opinion, colleges like sports and actively recruit and ask people to become athletes. In exchange, those athletes want financial compensation for the risk they are taking at the colleges benefit

Anonymous

#9 6w

If the thousands of university professors, coaches, presidents, staff, etc, (who are full grown adults with real experience and a far better understanding of college sports than you will ever have) decided that NIL is a reasonable system that protects the STUDENTS (not themselves), then maybe you should defer to them.

Anonymous

OP 6w

So modeling/acting aren’t real jobs? Because that’s what they’re doing. They’re posing for ads, making sponsored posts, or filming commercials. Name, Image, Likeness - being monetized because it has value. And the Value is determined by what someone is willing to spend for it.

Anonymous

OP 6w

If its not a job and it makes so much money why dont you try doing it?

Anonymous

OP 6w

You dont understand how NIL funding works. Crazy how much you can pull out of your ass

Anonymous

OP 6w

Are you ok with pro players making that kind of money though? It’s hardly different at this point. The players are being sold as a product that’s worth billions, I don’t see why it’s so ridiculous for them to see a couple million of that

Anonymous

#9 6w

Whether or not they enjoy the sport has nothing to do with their worth as a player. Should musicians not be paid because they enjoy performing? Should pro athletes outside of college not be paid because they enjoy their sport? Should authors not be paid for enjoying writing? The concepts of time, effort, and risk aren’t complicated, you just choose to disregard them with NIL because you have some petty grudge with the idea of college athletes getting compensated for risking their health

Anonymous

OP 6w

They do productive things. Would OU or Alabama be as popular as they are now without the football? No. The players bring in millions and millions of dollars a year on ticket sales alone. They work day in and day out to maintain their shape and strength. Live a day in their shoes and you’ll understand.

Anonymous

OP 6w

I mean, the athletes collectively generate billions a year, of which most of the revenue is held by like 20 schools in each sport. Those huge sports like our very own UT or OSU/Bama function kind of like private franchises that profit MASSIVELY off of young teenagers/20 year olds risking their bodies in sports. I think being compensated for that, even lavishly, is fair.