Illinois Football Recruiting Thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
#54      
redwingillini11
FI_8905 said:
A big bag on the table for Altmyer from Tennessee should he portal.
Click to expand...
Unimpressed Blank Face GIF by Film Riot
 
#57      
Dkayak
the juiceman cometh said:
And also you have to think that with NIL, a sit out year is just another opportunity to get paid. Because programs will still be competing for these guys. So in that way it's not necessarily punitive anymore.

The flip side is, does that create a perverse incentive to transfer precisely so you can sit out and extend your window of being able to make NIL in college?
Click to expand...
It also creates an incentive for schools to hesitate on their end. You get zero value for paying guys to sit out. They’re dead weight financially, so shop very carefully.
 
#59      
ChiefGritty
Dkayak said:
It also creates an incentive for schools to hesitate on their end. You get zero value for paying guys to sit out. They’re dead weight financially, so shop very carefully.
Click to expand...
Right, and the critical thing is that it doesn't scale.

A couple of guys transferring in with sit out years is all good. But you can't build a whole team that way. Crucially that also becomes non-viable in coaching change situations.

And in a post-House settlement world where players' NIL money is structurally connected to the school, you can start pushing towards a world where a new coach and the team he's inheriting need to work together to a large extent.

That's better, that's healing.
 
#62      
the juiceman cometh
Dkayak said:
It also creates an incentive for schools to hesitate on their end. You get zero value for paying guys to sit out. They’re dead weight financially, so shop very carefully.
Click to expand...
True to some extent.

But if it's a competition for players, you're not getting the players if you don't offer to pay for the sit out year. Because somebody else will pay them.
 
#64      
mhuml32
americanoutlaw11 said:
As it should be. I’m all for NIL and players making money. However, One thing I’ve never seen discussed is that unlike in professional sports, collegiate athletes literally get to pick and choose their team. They are able to vet, analyze, compare and contrast the situation they will be going into. No such system like that exists in pro sports until free agency. If you get drafted by the Panthers or Pirates or Pistons you are just out of luck for 4 to 7 years. Because of that I think some added regulation needs to occur and I don’t think that is unreasonable given the fact they initially get to choose their freaking landing spot.
Click to expand...

This is missing the context that professional sports have a history of no draft talent acquisition. Almost all of the leagues had quasi free agency for college prospects, who could pick any team. How did this change? Collective bargaining. Right now, the greater college sport arm would rather keep a greater amount of the revenue and deal with all of these (potentially existential) problems than share at a rate similar to professional leagues in exchange of labor control.
 
#66      
STLini25
It is shocking to me that donors of universities are paying an estimated $2B in NIL to student athletes. That is a lot of ANNUAL donations. Just the power 4 conferences you are well over $1B in ANNUAL donations. I can’t see that is sustainable.

I’m imagining the phone calls we are making this week saying we need $9 million this week just for a qb, a mediocre shooting guard and a mediocre small forward.
 
#71      
Illini2010-11
The fact that we are having top tier programs looking to poach or offer huge sums of money to our top players to get them into the portal, is a great indication of the tremendous job that Coach B and staff have done with coaching up our roster/roster construction. We are slowly getting to the tier that we have all wanted, and this is what happens when we have great talent on our roster.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back