NIL gone wrong
- Thread starter Jartard
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Most states already allow this... If anyone is dumb enough to pay a high school kid NIL money, then so be it.
NIL money is not an actual attempt to buy advertising. In the real world, a celebrity endorsement is an attempt to increase sales. For example, recently Hertz has been running ads with Tom Brady. Whoever owns Hertz is betting that some number of people will be influenced by this and it will recoup more $$ in increased sales than it pays Brady. That is real.
NIL isn't that, at the college level or the high school level. No one actually thinks that paying a player is actually going to increase sales by a profitable amount. It is, rather, about getting into a d*** measuring contest with fans of the other teams. No one cares about the name, image or likeness of any of these players. They are just paying them to play for "their" school and not the other. And, at the high school level, recruiting kids, generally by setting up no work jobs for parents, has been going on forever. (If you don't believe me, check out who is the girl's coach at Greenbrier East). This is just the new version of that. There are 1000s of people, many of them self-appointed coaches, that will recruit players at the high school level.
NIL isn't that, at the college level or the high school level. No one actually thinks that paying a player is actually going to increase sales by a profitable amount. It is, rather, about getting into a d*** measuring contest with fans of the other teams. No one cares about the name, image or likeness of any of these players. They are just paying them to play for "their" school and not the other. And, at the high school level, recruiting kids, generally by setting up no work jobs for parents, has been going on forever. (If you don't believe me, check out who is the girl's coach at Greenbrier East). This is just the new version of that. There are 1000s of people, many of them self-appointed coaches, that will recruit players at the high school level.
"Hi I'm Delmar from Redneck HS. You know, when me and my buddies head to the lake to catch some big cats, we stop by I.P. Freeley's bait shop for all our supplies." ....................
How long before we see a HIgh School Portal, kind of feel like Logan and a couple other southern WV High Schools have been doing this off and on for decades.
There are dumb people that would do this for youth sports.
Maybe or before they are even born with gifted athletic parents. Is sport sports anymore or just business as usual?
The insane amount of money spent on HS football stadiums in Texas is going to make this a whole new ballgame.
For once I will have totally agree with you herdman. That money especially in Texas could have been better spent.
