Meh...who needs high school now.
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The Bryce Harper strategy comes to football. The difference is Bryce Harper was a clear generational talent (like Lebron and a few others in the last 20 years in their respective sports).
I wonder how long it takes for the NFL to drop the "you must be 21 years old to be drafted" rule?... My guess is the next CBA, so not long... Then all three major sports leagues will be able to draft straight out of high school as long as the player is 18 (the NBA is dropping the one-and-done requirement in its next CBA).
I wonder how long it takes for the NFL to drop the "you must be 21 years old to be drafted" rule?... My guess is the next CBA, so not long... Then all three major sports leagues will be able to draft straight out of high school as long as the player is 18 (the NBA is dropping the one-and-done requirement in its next CBA).
That's what this has come to, and there isn't a person who didn't see it coming!
This is all going to be a huge boon for the sports media world - here 17 year old, here's millions of dollars before you've done anything, even graduated high school, now let's ship you off to a college campus full of nubile young women and sycophantic hangers-on.
"30 for 30" will be its own channel in 10 years.
"30 for 30" will be its own channel in 10 years.
WVU is excited that a Class of 2023 kid “reclassified” and graduated last week.
Not uncommon but how is that just glossed over? Two years?
Not uncommon but how is that just glossed over? Two years?
I would have foregone my senior season at Fayetteville High, had I been able to score $100.00. Back then, I could have gotten a couple kegs of beer, a whole pound of Mexican, a few large GFs, and all the Geno's pizza I wanted for six months.
I am hoping this deal comes about on this message board. I will be rich.
This is their backup. Their backup. I don't care what level recruit he was. He's not started a single game in college. There's no way this doesn't poison the sport. There's a possibility some players make more than their assistant coaches do. Good luck with team discipline and players not losing drive because "they've made it".
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Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, who has yet to start a game in his young career, has already signed deals using his name, image and likeness that are worth more than $800,000, according to sources.
However, Young has been presented -- but has yet to accept -- deals worth well in excess of $1 million, sources told ESPN.
Sources: Young signed over $800K in NIL deals
Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, who has yet to start a game in his young career, has already signed deals using his name, image and likeness that are worth more than $800,000, according to sources.
I've seen plenty who are outraged the schools aren't doing more to monitor this. The schools don't care, its not their money.This is their backup. Their backup. I don't care what level recruit he was. He's not started a single game in college. There's no way this doesn't poison the sport. There's a possibility some players make more than their assistant coaches do. Good luck with team discipline and players not losing drive because "they've made it".
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Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, who has yet to start a game in his young career, has already signed deals using his name, image and likeness that are worth more than $800,000, according to sources.
However, Young has been presented -- but has yet to accept -- deals worth well in excess of $1 million, sources told ESPN.
Sources: Young signed over $800K in NIL deals
Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, who has yet to start a game in his young career, has already signed deals using his name, image and likeness that are worth more than $800,000, according to sources.www.google.com
It could actually work to improve some athletes' approaches to themselves by seeing how mismanaging money can really hurt you.
Some, not many, will learn. Some, not many, may not even go into the NFL and have enough money to pursue other options.
Schools need to be on top of this and require athletes to pay for their education if they make “x” amount
As to this HS kid, if you read what SCOTUS said about college, it seems like a case about a HS rule on the same subject will come out the same.
As to this NIL stuff and Alabama’s QB and all of that, it seems to me that a business would pay a player in one of two scenarios. One is basic capitalism. Business ABC pays player $X because it believes that player’s endorsement will yield a return in increased sales of more than $X. The other is that business ABC is owned by Joe Superfan and he is just repurposing the $$ he used to give to the booster club (or pay under the table to players) with no real expectation of a profitable return.
Methinks that 90% of all this NIL business so far is the latter, not the former.
As to this NIL stuff and Alabama’s QB and all of that, it seems to me that a business would pay a player in one of two scenarios. One is basic capitalism. Business ABC pays player $X because it believes that player’s endorsement will yield a return in increased sales of more than $X. The other is that business ABC is owned by Joe Superfan and he is just repurposing the $$ he used to give to the booster club (or pay under the table to players) with no real expectation of a profitable return.
Methinks that 90% of all this NIL business so far is the latter, not the former.
Exactly. Which is a disappointment to me, because I was really hoping all of this would result in a bunch of really bad local advertising.
Of course we're also ignoring the third category - Uncle Vinny from New Jersey/Nevada who stops by the lockerroom after practice with an endorsement check and a reminder that the spread Saturday is only +6.
Is that the basketball guy who is from England? Apparently, he completed school there with some kind of "paper", maybe a glamorized version of the American "GED" which allows him to get into college here in the US. Or let me "clarify", allow him to get into "WVU", if you will,
NFL teams would love to get their hands on the top kids earlier... Obviously most 18 year olds are not ready to compete physically with 25-30 year old grown men in football, and they need a year or three of college to get to that level.
But the best of the best?... Why not go in the draft at 18?... If your options are to sign at Bama and maybe make some NIL money while putting your body on the line, or get drafted out of high school and sign a guaranteed seven figure deal, you know which one to take.
You’re a gm and you’d pay a 5* recruit first round money by only seeing them play against high school talent and let them sit 3-4 years to develop? If you’d do that you won’t let long in the front office
As of right now NFL teams have not incentive to draft out of HS. 90% of players re not physically ready or mentally for that matter coming out of HS. The NFL Draft is already a crapshoot. It could potentially be worse without a body of work to judge.
It would also cost NFL teams more money to have spend more man power scouting all the HS teams and watching their games and trying to judge what they're seeing.
It just doesn't hurt the NFL product at all waiting until a player is 3 years removed from HS before drafting them. This NIL business does nothing detrimental to the NFL. There's no reason for them to move. It's not like some kid is going to make so much money playing in college that he forgoes the NFL. That's just nonsense. Sure there may be one isolated instance that's the exception and not the rule, but hardly any player is going to turn down their dream of playing in the league and making even more money.
This is called baseball... It's a model that football may head towards.
If you could sign Bo Jackson/Hershel Walker/Lavar Arrington, etc at 18 and possibly have him on the field at 19, you wouldn't do that?... We are talking 1-2 guys a year maybe, but still you would do it if you could. The draft is a crapshoot whether you pick guys at 18, 20, 22 or 30.
Except there is a system in place for baseball to do that. No such system exists in football. If I were a time traveler I absolutely would draft bo Jackson the problem is none of us knew anything about what type of athletes bo or walker were going to be or what type of career they would have. Yes it’s still a crap shoot with college draft but the odds are even more stacked against you if you start drafting high school kids
I can’t think of a sport that I didn’t enjoy watching. Now they are mostly ruined.
Want to watch me play? $
Want an autograph? $$
Be glad to talk to your kid for thirty seconds. $$$
Want me at your little school? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Want to watch me play? $
Want an autograph? $$
Be glad to talk to your kid for thirty seconds. $$$
Want me at your little school? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Well, the joke's on the colleges throwing down cash for this upcoming season. Looks like we're likely to have a similar year in regards to empty stadiums and cancellations due to the new and improved version of COVID.
