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TheOriginalCane said:
Yes.

And going forward, people are going to have to realize that the REAL valuation of a HS quarterback is his ability to be a "recruiting ambassador" that nails down the rest of the recruiting class.

Once we get over the whole "but a HS QB can be worth $14M if The Gator decides to pay it" nonsense, we can start valuing QBs properly.
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Mario is definitely leaning on Carson Beck to help with recruiting/tampering in this Spring Window, he’s made it known when we signed him
 
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CANESCANES said:
Mario is definitely leaning on Carson Beck to help with recruiting/tampering in this Spring Window, he’s made it known when we signed him
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Again, he is an UPPERclassman. He has demonstrated his ability at the college level.

I am speaking solely of HIGH SCHOOL quarterbacks, at the time they are recruited.
 
It's college football tears regarding Nico, NIL, etc.

I hear we had a Spring game. That's how much I pay attention these days.

All of this is the byproduct of a failed implementation of NIL. Hopefully they fix it one day, it's broken as it is. I always wondered who would be the first holdout.
 
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DTP said:
If these programs are constantly operating at a loss, the problem will solve itself. How long are ultra wealthy boosters (that’s who’s paying a majority of the money) going to continue to invest in something with little to no return. It’s hilarious that we need some kind of salary cap to keep rich people from wasting their money. You’d think financially literate people will eventually say “enough is enough”.
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The problem won't solve itself because as i've stated in my previous post, college athletics has an atypical market structure, where nonprofit organizations are engaged in zero-sum competition on the playing field, while simultaneously completing significant commercial transactions off of it. The lack of shareholder accountability has incentivized colleges to invest heavily into athletics, to the pt where most programs are incurring huge losses, in order to keep pace with the few that are winning. This is a form of market failure, because the industry is inherently drawn towards inefficient, ruinous competition.

As the losses & debt continue to accrue, colleges will either have to increase tuition/student fees &/or begin eliminating non-revenue sports. This only further exacerbates the tuition & student loan crisis & reduces the number of available opportunities for athletes. Booster funded collectives are paying for the rosters, but what about the infrastructure & operations?
 
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Trafficante said:
The problem won't solve itself because as i've stated in my previous post, college athletics have an atypical market structure, where nonprofit organizations are engaged in zero-sum competition on the playing field, while simultaneously completing significant commercial transactions off of it. The lack of shareholder accountability has incentivized colleges to invest heavily into athletics, to the pt where most programs are incurring huge losses, in order to keep pace with the few that are winning. This is a form of market failure, because the industry is inherently drawn towards inefficient, ruinous competition.

As the losses & debt continue to accrue, colleges will either have to increase tuition/student fees &/or begin eliminating non-revenue sports. This only further exacerbates the tuition & student loan crisis & reduces the number of available opportunities for athletes. Booster funded collectives are paying for the rosters, but what about the infrastructure & operations?
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You know why all of this is wrong? Because colleges don’t pay NIL dollars. Not a single dollar in NILmoney is coming from any university. The money is all donor money that usually goes through a collective. Colleges aren’t losing money by paying players. Donors are.

Now you could have made this argument about schools spending ridiculous amounts of money on facilities or coaches’ salaries. But that’s not some new phenomenon. College football has been an arms race for over twenty years now.
 
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DTP said:
You know why all of this is wrong? Because colleges don’t pay NIL dollars. Not a single dollar in NIL money is coming from any university. The money is all donor money that usually goes through a collective. Colleges aren’t losing money by paying players. Donors are.

Now you could have made this argument about schools spending ridiculous amounts of money on facilities or coaches’ salaries. But that’s not some new phenomenon. College football has been an arms race for over twenty years now.
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You're misunderstanding; I never said that NIL was the reason why athletic depts. are recording losses. The main premise of my 1st post was that college athletics has to move towards a limited-free market model in order to implement necessary spending controls; arms race mentality exists in NIL too, otherwise we wouldn't see the kind of inflation yr over yr.
 
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Also, for the people who think collective bargaining is the solution; not only have federal courts consistently ruled that student athletes are not employees of universities, but even if they were the NLRB specifically excludes public sector employees from unionization, therefore only student athletes employed at private universities would be able to collectively bargain.

As of now the only viable solution is for the NCAA to be granted an exemption so that the industry can have the power to regulate itself, while making sure the governance model advances the interests of student athletes.
 
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Rellyrell said:


Don’t normally agree w this dude, but he’s 100% correct. This is actually beyond NIL & a much bigger issue in society
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I don’t like it, but is it any worse than the contract holdouts that used to take place in the 1980s in the NFL before free agency. I remember the 1991 opening game game ofnt
Trafficante said:
The problem won't solve itself because as i've stated in my previous post, college athletics have an atypical market structure, where nonprofit organizations are engaged in zero-sum competition on the playing field, while simultaneously completing significant commercial transactions off of it. The lack of shareholder accountability has incentivized colleges to invest heavily into athletics, to the pt where most programs are incurring huge losses, in order to keep pace with the few that are winning. This is a form of market failure, because the industry is inherently drawn towards inefficient, ruinous competition.

As the losses & debt continue to accrue, colleges will either have to increase tuition/student fees &/or begin eliminating non-revenue sports. This only further exacerbates the tuition & student loan crisis & reduces the number of available opportunities for athletes. Booster funded collectives are paying for the rosters, but what about the infrastructure & operations?
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ive been saying this for years. A future timeline could easily be a political movement against college sports in general, led by future students tired of paying fees to support athletes who are in walked off facilities that do not interact with the school.
 
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What if Angeli gets ****ed that he didn’t get the nod and bounces.
That leaves the domers for opening day with a freshman and what back up?
 
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