This Tenn/adidas deal to the RB recruit is confusing me. How much did adidas give the Tenn RB recruit? Is the 2 million from Tenn's revenue sharing, or does it include NIL? Has PSU asked adidas to provide NIL to some high end recruits to come to PSU? Can PSU do the same as Tenn? Have they tried? Will adidas make smaller NIL offers to lower ranked recruits, or do they simply want the big name recruit and nothing else? Did our performance last year sour adidas? Do we have to prove our worth on the field this year? So many unanswered questions.
2027 Recruiting Thread
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This is more concerning.Assuming that you are at the top of (pick a school)s board, if I"m Nike I'm pushing him to go to a program of (ours) that has the greatest potential for positive exposure.After all, it is now nothing more than a business transaction.
I find it all confusing too. I also wonder where the numbers came from in the original X post. Are they accurate? If they are, can Georgia hang onto Spell? Those numbers are supposedly a lot higher than Spell, but again who knows.
How far away from this are we:
Star RB: "Coach, I can't wear these crappy Adidas cleats... I'm going to wear my Nikes"
Coach: "You can't do that, we have a deal with Adidas"
RB: "You may have a deal with Adidas, but I don't have a damn deal with Adidas, they don't pay me squat. Nike will pay me a cool 1/2 a million, and I like their gear better anyway. You wear whatever damn shoes you want."
Coach: "Sorry. Doesn't work like that"
RB "Sorry my ***. Nike is gonna' give me $500,000, and I AM wearing them. You got a problem with that? Talk to my agent - and my lawyer will see you in court"
Want to know how FUBAR "college" sports are? Find the brightest and most cynical/skeptical person you know. Ask them their thoughts on how fouled up "college" sports are - and then multiply that by a factor of 5.
All because the business was run by a group that was overwhelmingly composed of not-too-bright, greedy, self-interested, egotistical puffs. More than enough of them to drown out ANY input from the few who actually had the brains, foresight, and integrity to maintain sanity. For decades.
Jeezus, just look around.
And that's what you get.
Oh, yeah, and when does that $300 Million deal kick in? LOL
Star RB: "Coach, I can't wear these crappy Adidas cleats... I'm going to wear my Nikes"
Coach: "You can't do that, we have a deal with Adidas"
RB: "You may have a deal with Adidas, but I don't have a damn deal with Adidas, they don't pay me squat. Nike will pay me a cool 1/2 a million, and I like their gear better anyway. You wear whatever damn shoes you want."
Coach: "Sorry. Doesn't work like that"
RB "Sorry my ***. Nike is gonna' give me $500,000, and I AM wearing them. You got a problem with that? Talk to my agent - and my lawyer will see you in court"
Want to know how FUBAR "college" sports are? Find the brightest and most cynical/skeptical person you know. Ask them their thoughts on how fouled up "college" sports are - and then multiply that by a factor of 5.
All because the business was run by a group that was overwhelmingly composed of not-too-bright, greedy, self-interested, egotistical puffs. More than enough of them to drown out ANY input from the few who actually had the brains, foresight, and integrity to maintain sanity. For decades.
Jeezus, just look around.
And that's what you get.
Oh, yeah, and when does that $300 Million deal kick in? LOL
I have said this before, the pendulum has swung waaaaay too far in favor of the athletes.
Should they get paid? Yes. Should a high school RB be signing contracts guaranteeing him $6 million PLUS signing a deal with Nike or Adidas worth a million or whatever? No.
Should a player be able to transfer the moment a coach looks at him the wrong way and then transfer again, and again and again. No. Should a player be able to transfer? Of course, but put limits on it so we don't have players at 4 schools in 5 years and may or may not even have a degree.
These corrupt, fat cat, do nothings who are supposedly "in charge" of college athletics (ADs, conf commissioners and yes your holier than thou college presidents and whomever else) need to get off their a##es and develop a strategic plan with regulations and rules.
I assume there will be some type of signature agreement that you can't wear anything while in the football facilities, pre-game, game warm ups, or during games, that is different than the school's apparel contract. I would think it would not be enforceable when the athlete is "out & about" or attending class. Of course I'm not a lawyer.
There's so much that can go wrong. Obviously, the NFL has a much better system. The college system is just starting but its got such a poor foundation that there's much that can and will go wrong. I can't believe they're haven't been more court cases yet.