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The facade of amateur athletes ends with this

D RevLee said:
The market in Miami is significantly bigger than Tuscaloosa or Clemson. Players will be able to use their likeness to do things like endorse products among other things. There is a big difference in being a star athlete in Miami or LA and being a star athlete in a small college town. There are a lot more opportunities to make money and set up future businesses. Like I said before, bigger markets dominate free agency in sports where players can make money. Look at the LA Rams. They were trash in St Louis and it's not a coincidence they quickly built their team up to win now through free agency. People thinking that ending amateurism in CFB would impact The U negatively are simply wrong.
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Hold up... you think there are more college football fans in Miami than Tuscaloosa?

We have multiple times more residents in SFLA, yet we still get fewer fans in the seats every year. The number of people here is higher, The percentage of CFB fans is much much lower. The market for a college kid to market a product is bigger in those small town sec schools.

That’s not even the point tho. Those sec boosters will be able to use the new rules to give these kids fortunes. Legally. Miami won’t be able to compete with that. Any booster wouid be able to hire these kids to show up for an event, or whatever, and pay millions. We just don’t have that kind of bag game.
 
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1mg of Epi said:
Hold up... you think there are more college football fans in Miami than Tuscaloosa?

We have multiple times more residents in SFLA, yet we still get fewer fans in the seats every year. The number of people here is higher, The percentage of CFB fans is much much lower. The market for a college kid to market a product is bigger in those small town sec schools.

That’s not even the point tho. Those sec boosters will be able to use the new rules to give these kids fortunes. Legally. Miami won’t be able to compete with that. Any booster wouid be able to hire these kids to show up for an event, or whatever, and pay millions. We just don’t have that kind of bag game.
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I'm saying Miami has more money than Tuscaloosa period. This would go beyond just boosters. Any businessman would be able to hire a star athlete to promote their product. It would be no different than free agency in the pros. Athletes want to play in bigger markets bc there are more opportunities. Not to mention the LA or Miami lifestyle. Marginalize the bagmen and Alabama/Clemson will not be able to compete with The U/USC.
 
D RevLee said:
I'm saying Miami has more money than Tuscaloosa period. This would go beyond just boosters. Any businessman would be able to hire a star athlete to promote their product. It would be no different than free agency in the pros. Athletes want to play in bigger markets bc there are more opportunities. Not to mention the LA or Miami lifestyle. Marginalize the bagmen and Alabama/Clemson will not be able to compete with The U/USC.
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These aren’t professional athletes. They have a limited appeal in a city Like Miami. The sheer number of people who give a shlt about a college player in Miami is smaller than Tuscaloosa, or any of the other elites. Alabama fans encompass the entire state. OSU fans encompass the entire state. Miami has 3 counties.

Not even NFL players here have all that many opportunities for real ad work. I don’t know where you live, but in south Florida, you’ll see a couple Miami dolphins players in ads. The stars. The only hurricanes players who wouid have a shot at those jobs would be the superstar guys. But Those UM stars will have to compete with the Miami dolphins players for those dollars. Large national companies might pay the Miami QB for his image and name, but they aren’t paying what the dolphins QB gets.

Will some of the lesser known guys get gigs signing autographs and doing appearances? Sure. They ain’t gonna make too much doing it but they will.

Now consider Alabama.... where boosters can insure that every signee makes 6 figures a year. Legally. By doing BS appearance. UM players will never have that.
 
We have to kick off players who get a discount on a rental car while Alabama has it set up in a visit that you get to pick the color of your brand new car for when you come. I don't see any evidence of how things currently are that this will not help SEC and Big 10 far more than it would help Miami.

Funny using the Rams, they went to two Superbowls in St Louis after they left LA.

Also UM players would have to compete with Heat and Marlin players. Not just Dolphin players.
 
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