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Tiger Spirit [9660]
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More NIL madness
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Mar 10, 2025, 1:57 PM
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Several quotes I have read regarding Cooper Flagg in multiple articles I have included here:
"The No.1 pick in the 2025 Draft is projected to be worth $36 million over three years."
"But Underwood thinks a deal could be struck to keep the best player in college around."
"He could probably make more here than he could in the NBA."
In other words a deal that would pay Flagg more than $12 million per year is a realistic thing.
Here is the problem. When discussions even mention the idea that an athlete can make more by staying in college and drawing NIL money, as opposed to going to (in this case) the NBA, a professional league, were the whole point is pay players to play, the system is broken. It is no secret that NIL, in most every case, is nothing more than pay for play. It is not sustainable.
Are there boosters of college teams that have more money than they do common sense, who will pay millions for the chance for their team to win a national championship? Yes. But that is not a sustainable model. Since the NIL collectives will get no monetary return on that investment, they will eventually stop doing it.
Professional leagues, on the other hand, do make a return on their investment (salaries of players). This model is sustainable as it makes money for its investor(s).
Models that lose money are not long term models.
Source:
https://talksport.com/basketball/2955284/cooper-flagg-nba-contract-draft-nil-duke-illinois-dunk/
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Campus Hero [13141]
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Underwood clearly doesn't understand the NBA
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Mar 10, 2025, 2:11 PM
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The way you maximize earnings in the NBA is by signing as many max contracts as you can which are worth around 50 million/year. Even if he did get 12M to come back it's a pittance compared to what ever a max deal will be in the last few years of his contract. Coach K made this exact point last week on his Sirius XM show when talking about Flagg
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Campus Hero [14079]
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Re: More NIL madness
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Mar 10, 2025, 2:12 PM
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Couldn't agree more. Collegiate athletics is embarrassing to even say at this point.
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Paw Master [17501]
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Re: More NIL madness
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Mar 10, 2025, 2:17 PM
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I hope it’s fake news but if it’s not sports is going to implode into disaster. We think it’s bad now but I think it will get much worse. Sports is becoming a hoppy for the wealthy.
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All-In [10516]
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Re: More NIL madness
Mar 10, 2025, 2:25 PM
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NIL is not a model, nor is it a sustainable entity. Cooper Flagg is a once in a generation talent and if he is enjoying being at Duke, and who wouldn't, more power to him if Duke supporters donate the money to keep him in Durham. Because NIL is so new and such a change from the past, too many people just refuse to accept it and understand there will always be changes with it.
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110%er [3651]
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Re: More NIL madness
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Mar 10, 2025, 3:08 PM
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How is one guy on a team making all the money fair?
How is NIL anything but pay for play?
NIL means name image and likeness.
So pay them for commercials pay them for tshirts for posters heck pay them for autographs I don’t care.
But call it what it is!
Then don’t tie it to college let every town or city have a pro team ! That’s what we have now and yes I get it O am old and things always change! Change is sometimes for the worst and not the best!
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Tiger Spirit [9660]
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Accepting it is not the issue. It is here and will not go away. Doesn't
Mar 10, 2025, 3:41 PM
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matter who accepts it or doesn't. However, some with better insight into the game than I have warned of its potential to destroy college Athletics. Nick Saban being one example. Saban sees it as a danger on two fronts. First, it limits the number of teams that can legitimately compete for the national championship to a few schools that have the alumni base with the wealth to support the spending spree. Second, with NIL and multiple transfers, more student athletes will leave without a degree or any of the other supports for life after football.
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Dynasty Maker [3586]
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Re: More NIL madness
Mar 10, 2025, 3:12 PM
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I’d like to meet some of these boosters giving this kind of money. I’ll pay 12% backed by real estate, which has to be 100% more than they’re getting in return now.
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