Moose Stuff
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Why should this guy get a sideline pass??? Other questions I’m on board with.
If businesses and donars in Fort Worth can’t find ways to use an athlete’s name, image and likeness in various programs (like advertising) to appropriately pay these top athletes then TCU needs to simply drop football completely. The star athletes can’t afford to play for a school that doesn’t have the necessary fan base support. Zach Evans may love TCU but will be gone next year because of money if Fort Worth alumni can’t or won’t pay him his worth.
If businesses and donars in Fort Worth can’t find ways to use an athlete’s name, image and likeness in various programs (like advertising) to appropriately pay these top athletes then TCU needs to simply drop football completely. The star athletes can’t afford to play for a school that doesn’t have the necessary fan base support. Zach Evans may love TCU but will be gone next year because of money if Fort Worth alumni can’t or won’t pay him his worth.
We were caught flat footed because the major powers have been doing this for years. They could get away with it.
The first time we lose a proven, star player to NIL transfer is probably when I check out. Thinking like losing Boykin or Doctson between 2014 and 2015 or Dalton between 2009 and 2010 or Hughes between 2008 and 2009 type deal.
Yep. Reinstate transfer rules and I don't think NIL matters that much.
The first time we lose a proven, star player to NIL transfer is probably when I check out. Thinking like losing Boykin or Doctson between 2014 and 2015 or Dalton between 2009 and 2010 or Hughes between 2008 and 2009 type deal.
Let's say Evans has a big year and a big blue blood in need of a RB comes along and offers a $2M NIL deal.
THAT is when it'll hit home. And once that starts happening on any kind of regular basis at all, what's the point in even following the sport? You have literally no chance of competing. Can't build a roster. Can't even run a program really with all the contingencies you'd have to have in place.
I don’t disagree, but what is his worth? Say we have businesses step up to pay him…. all some bigger school has to do is find a business that will pay him more than that. I hate almost everything about this (and the free transfer rule).
Are you really asking who are we to judge whether or not we will be fans of something? Who the scheiss else would judge that?
I completely agree. And I didn’t mean it’s inevitable that he leaves. More that it’s inevitable that someone like him eventually does.In the case of a kid like Evans, if the transfer rule was not in place, he wouldn't be going anywhere, no matter how much money was offered him. Or better yet, because I can't imagine a big NIL deal in place for a kid who will probably never play for that school.
How free the market is remains to be seen. The reality is that a lot of these schools have MASSIVE head starts due to enormous government subsidies. They're large, public schools and that provides a clear competitive advantage that most schools don't have. That doesn't make the market less free, but it certainly makes it less competitive and I don't think it will take long for that gap to widen to such an extent that most FBS schools don't try to compete.this is the free market at work. many of you most likely want to cut regulations and let the free market work. well…..here you go.
Who is to blame for this? I assume Donati?