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College sports as we know it has to end because it was illegal and had a hypocritical pretense of fairness. People who feel an affinity for their hagiographic recollections of days gone by will mourn its passing, as will those who benefitted from its features (whether good or bad). Southwest Airlines used to be Texas-only airline with sex-kitten stewardesses. It's not just death and taxes; the inevitable includes change and responding to it with denial and lamentation. College sports are changing, not dying. Yes I know I used it as both a plural and singular collective-- sue me, grammar police. 

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With the women’s basketball 5 star picking OU over Texas it left me with a question about corporate NIL. Do the shoe companies and other corporate NIL companies offer different NIL compensation based upon where an athlete decides to enroll? Because that five star player will be worth a helluva lot more at Texas to them than at OU, I would think. She’s working her deal with Jordan and I would have thought he’d pay her more at Texas. 

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14 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

With the women’s basketball 5 star picking OU over Texas it left me with a question about corporate NIL. Do the shoe companies and other corporate NIL companies offer different NIL compensation based upon where an athlete decides to enroll? Because that five star player will be worth a helluva lot more at Texas to them than at OU, I would think. She’s working her deal with Jordan and I would have thought he’d pay her more at Texas. 

Texas is a Nike school. OU is a Jordan Brand school. (That’s why their football uniforms have a silhouette of a guy dunking a basketball)

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14 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

With the women’s basketball 5 star picking OU over Texas it left me with a question about corporate NIL. Do the shoe companies and other corporate NIL companies offer different NIL compensation based upon where an athlete decides to enroll? Because that five star player will be worth a helluva lot more at Texas to them than at OU, I would think. She’s working her deal with Jordan and I would have thought he’d pay her more at Texas. 


She will be a bigger national name if she plays in OU’s offense. 

Caitlyn Clark became the (white) face of women’s college basketball while playing at fucking IOWA!

If you want to be a star while still in college, you have to be in a position to make Sportscenter highlights. That likely wasn’t going to happen for 2 or 3 years if she were to go to Texas. That will happen for her this November & December in Norman.

Plus, OU is a national brand even though it’s a podunk state. That is why the SEC brought them in.

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40 minutes ago, statsman said:

Texas is a Nike school. OU is a Jordan Brand school. (That’s why their football uniforms have a silhouette of a guy dunking a basketball)

Ah there’s the missing piece. 

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She chose ou because of 1) faster style of play (it didn't help them much this year)

2) Money. That's it.

The silver lining we save over $1m AND we're loaded  with 5* players everywhere, which is why we're a perrineal school looking for a championship, and ou just dregs along. Chazwv, who is good, isn't getting anything other than a recruiting win and may 2 more wins a season. She's no threat to us or anyone else in the SEC who is a power player. Good luck to her. We still signed the #4 player in Aaliyah Crump. Vic reloads. 

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Question for the NIL gurus, re the House/NCAA settlement:

I am reading that schools will hold NIL rights to an athlete for 3 years, and should an athlete transfer, the new school would owe the original school compensation.

Is that accurate?

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On 3/25/2025 at 7:48 PM, Funk Doctor Spock said:

we're a perrineal school

 

Perennial" refers to plants that live for more than two years, returning each year, while "perineal" relates to the perineum, the area between the anus and the genitals. 
 
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3 hours ago, NTVTXN said:

 

 

Perennial" refers to plants that live for more than two years, returning each year, while "perineal" relates to the perineum, the area between the anus and the genitals. 
 
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Don't sleep on peroneal. This is sports, after all.

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13 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I think that dude sucks. I feel like no one actually watches these guys play. He was part of why they were just okay last season and never should have made the playoffs.

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I'll admit to being naive about Iamaleava's mediocrity until today.  He was a press darling early in the season last year, esp. after the TD pass that put Tennessee up over Bama in mid October.  Against good defenses, he kinda sucked.

And I actually hypothesized that he was lured into this by tOSU or Oregon, but @closetojumping properly set the record straight.  He's (below?) average and should have worked on his craft and deposited large checks.  

 

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I am absolutely subscribed to see the bottom fall out of NIL post settlement for anyone not in a major media metro because there ain't gonna be no more corp NIL beyond the settlement cap for those schools. 

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4 hours ago, immamac said:

Holy shit. Tennessee told him to go fuck himself, bye. 

I respect Tennessee for that, no lie. He didn't even play up to what they were already paying him and he wants more? Ok, good luck, FAFO

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18 hours ago, immamac said:

I am absolutely subscribed to see the bottom fall out of NIL post settlement for anyone not in a major media metro because there ain't gonna be no more corp NIL beyond the settlement cap for those schools. 

 

Unless Congress acts - which I guess there's a remote chance - you're off your rocker.

There's a reason the Power 4 commissioners are in Washington lobbying Congress to step in. They know how vulnerable they are regardless of the House settlement:

Power Four commissioners call on Congress to fix NIL

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Power Four commissioners call on Congress to fix NIL

Story by Jeff Hauser

As the future of Name, image and likeness continues to be debated, the commissioners of Power Four conferences seek outside assistance to help regulate the 'Wild West' conditions.

SEC's Greg Sankey, ACC's Jim Phillips, Big Ten's Tony Petitti and Big 12's Brett Yormark met in Washington to discuss options with Congress on how to proceed with strict NIL guidelines. The four men have the clear objective to stop unlimited use of the transfer portal, along with payments exceeding eight figures in some cases.

More than 2,000 Division I college basketball players have entered the portal since it opened March 24. One player found an exit from his old program minutes after losing in March Madness.

"We need help from Congress," Yormark told FOX News. "From where I sit today, federal preemption, having a standardized platform that oversees and governs NIL is critically important. Today, 34 states see it very differently, and it’s relatively unruly."

Yormark and the Big 12 are coming off one the best athletic years across the two major sports. Deion Sanders and Colorado will have two of the top players in the 2025 NFL Draft with Heisman winner Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders. Arizona State made the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff under Kenny Dillingham. Also, Houston's men's basketball team had an outstanding run to the National Championship, putting Kelvin Sampson in the big game for the first time in his illustrious coaching career.

"The volume of laws that are being passed on a state level are making it really difficult for us to regulate and compete nationally," added Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. Every single time someone doesn’t like a ruling, or something comes from the NCAA, we end up in litigation. Those rules then get aggregated, and we’re back to the start. 

"We’re hopeful that the combination of what we’ve done in the settlement will give us an opportunity, with some help from Congress, to really put a system in a place that has some stability.  

"We’ve crossed the bridge of being willing to provide revenue … but we need to have some structure. We can’t have a system that has completely unregulated movement."

The settlement Petitti referred to is House v. NCAA, allowing schools to pay a portion of revenue from media rights, ticket sales and sponsorships directly to athletes. The initial budgeting for the Big 12 sits at $20.5 million to be shared across all sports, with football programs receiving a majority of the funds. 

At best it will be a short term fix. The bottom isn't going to drop out of NIL over the long term. Someone somewhere is going to fork over the money to build a potential national championship roster, and then everyone else will have to decide if they want to compete or not. The enforcement of the House settlement will be iffy at best. At the very least it will require going to court to simply enforce it. And the NCAA has shown no appetite for anything but settlements since the Supreme Court depantsing in the Alston case. 

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