Yeah, I kinda get that, but that's also partly how college football is falling apart: the right of the individual to pursue their own money is trumping the interests of the group (i.e. team, university, alumni, collective, fans, media companies, etc.). Dude is getting paid NIL and a scholarship and he somehow has the right to not play th…
Yeah, I kinda get that, but that's also partly how college football is falling apart: the right of the individual to pursue their own money is trumping the interests of the group (i.e. team, university, alumni, collective, fans, media companies, etc.). Dude is getting paid NIL and a scholarship and he somehow has the right to not play the final game of the season in the pursuit of his own selfish interests? And that's somehow OK? There has to be some sort of punitive damage for this sort of thing.
I agree, but we're still not fully in the pay-to-play world yet. I think we should start behaving like it, but there's no legal recourse since they're being paid "endorsements" instead of salaries despite us all understanding that if it quacks like a duck...
Yeah, I kinda get that, but that's also partly how college football is falling apart: the right of the individual to pursue their own money is trumping the interests of the group (i.e. team, university, alumni, collective, fans, media companies, etc.). Dude is getting paid NIL and a scholarship and he somehow has the right to not play the final game of the season in the pursuit of his own selfish interests? And that's somehow OK? There has to be some sort of punitive damage for this sort of thing.
I agree, but we're still not fully in the pay-to-play world yet. I think we should start behaving like it, but there's no legal recourse since they're being paid "endorsements" instead of salaries despite us all understanding that if it quacks like a duck...
I agree that if he's getting paid NIL money, he has the responsibility to play.