Coaches could stop this BS
- Thread starter Sparklecity
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It may appear selfish to you, but this could be life changing money to some of these kids. They would be stupid to turn it down. No rules against transferring at least once. If you can put a couple hundred thousand dollars extra in your pocket for doing the same thing (Go to school, practice, play), who is not doing that?
It's life changing money for anyone. Most college graduates are in debt for the next 20 years and it takes longer than that to earn a fraction of the amounts of money we're talking about. Nobody "needs" that.
These kids aren’t in debt when they graduate. Unless they are a walk on, they all have free rides through college at the D1 level.
Doesn't matter. If you told someone here is $250,000 extra to do the same job that you are already doing, 99% of the people being asked are going to ultimately take that money. Don't believe me? Look all the ruckus that was called by LIV Golf. Those guys, for the most part had money, they took more.
Back to the original post.... if coaches stopped going to the portal it would stop all of this!
You can barely get coaches to agree on the rules of the actual game let alone this. Further, there is a whole lot of legal liability in attempting to collude in that fashion.
What's "life changing" money? $1 mil...$2 mil? Michael Oher made many more millions. Now he's suing for millions. If I could leap back in time to tell my 21 year-old self one thing and one thing only, it would be: you don't need as much money as you think to be happy.
Or that it doesn't matter how much money you make, you will never accumulate wealth until you learn to live on less than you make. I have known plenty of people who are in the top 1% or 2% of earners who were still living "paycheck-to-paycheck." I hope these kids are getting good financial advice from those around them, but I suspect the vast majority are not.
You're asking greedy and selfish people to not be greedy and selfish.
We’re witnessing the Wild West of NIL right now; but it’ll get some law and order. Has to. When the chaos affects a University’s bottom line things will change
Coaches universally decry the current situation....but none of them will stop.
That is not what I said. What I said was clear. Anyone who acts like this is about staying out of debt is a fool.
I’m not stupid, it is a money grab. And yes, I if someone was throwing $500k at me I’d take it too. I do not like the portal as it is now, nor do I like NIL, but I don’t blame them for taking what they are offered.