Re: NIL should scare NFL

TigerPride97

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Jan 19, 2023, 9:20 AM

You came to the exact wrong conclusion. This logically doesn't add up at all, and you don't explain how this "gets" the NFL.

NIL is just not going to equal NFL money for athletes. And the NCAA is well within its rights to limit eligibility to four years maximum. Maybe for borderline NFL players, those would be drafted in the fourth or fifth round, they might delay coming to the NFL for a year. First and second rounders are still going to leave. It's going to make no difference to the NFL.

Also, right now, the NFL is like 4 times more popular than college football, when there was true amateurism. How would the fact that athletes get paid in college cause people to not watch the NFL? I think you're going to get far MORE people watching the NFL as compared to college.

I felt allegiance to Clemson football because I was a Clemson student/alumni and I wanted to support my fellow students, who chose Clemson to be part of the culture of the school. Now, that's no longer the case. They don't choose Clemson for the same reason. They're now professional athletes/employees, and they go wherever the money takes them. Combine that with the fact that they're not students in any real sense of the word (they never were (I had a Clemson player in one of my classes and he could barely read), but it's even worse now with non-existent admission standards and majors designed for athletes to skate through).

I think it's far more likely, that as NIL takes hold, I will view them as a professional team that just happens to wear orange, and also happens to be less talented than an NFL team. Every college fan I've seen feels the same.

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You're right. There are a handful of NIL packages more than base NFL salaries for those players. But you're missing a couple things.

1. NIL drops off dramatically. There are VERY few $1 million dollar NIL packages out there. Those deals go to the best of the best. You can't equate Bryce Young with a third round pick, because he'd be drafted top 5. The NIL people with the large deals are the proven winners who will be more comparable with first rounders.

2. NIL is a thing in the NFL too. You can think of football compensation as two factors: salary + endorsements. At the moment, college players have 0 salary + NIL as their endorsements. So using Bryce Young. He got $0 in salary, and about $3.2 million in NIL money. Total compensation of $3.2 million. Compare that to Dak Prescott, a very good QB, but not at the very top in compensation. His salary was $27.4 million. His NIL was $12 million. So he made $40 million this last year.

College players receive no salary and make less NIL than NFL starters. That's why it's only going to impact those college players who aren't good enough to start day 1 (or at all). And at the end of the day, we're talking about maybe their delaying entering the NFL by a year. It doesn't get the NFL because they can't actively choose to forego the NFL to be college players their whole life. That's not going to impact the NFL's bottom line.

NIL should scare NFL