College Football has seen an uptick in the sport since 2019. Teams are playing a more up-tempo style of ball with no-huddle as the main source of moving the ball up and down the field. Because the game is so fast now, it is almost as if college players are playing in more of a semi-pro game than an amateur contest. How have NIL and the Transfer Portal impacted College football?
Being the great investors they are, the NCAA decided to modify its transfer portal rules and also allow players to compensate off of corporate endorsement deals similar to NFL players. The players could use this money to pay off student debt occurred while attending College, as well as many other bills.
Did you Hear?
Have you heard about the University of Tennessee quarterback who was reportedly offered an NIL deal worth $8 million in exchange for the collective marketing revenue made off the player’s NIL rights for the next four years? This five-star stud is in the class of 2023 and out of Downey, CA.
What about Boston College wide receiver Zay Flowers? Flowers was presented $600,000 to attend a different school and $300,000 to transfer to another school.
These offers have one thing in common in that they come from collectives, booster and business driven companies. They have risen up to bring one thing to college athletes and that’s Name, Image and Likeness Money.
What is Allowed and Disallowed with NIL Deals?
Schools can’t officially offer a player anything. However, a private collective can offer things like; “endorsement money”, for coming to their most-liked school. It’s just a loop hole in the scheme of things.
While The University of Tennessee, Boston College and college football as a unit was anxious over these transfer offers, the reality is the sport is progressing and that NIL is doing its job.
The New Misleading Perception of College Football
NCAA lawyers pointlessly argued (all the way to the Supreme Court) that allowing athletes to receive monetary academic awards would make fans see college football as a professional “minor league”. Since professional minor leagues have very few fans, interest would plummet. And of course, they were dead wrong.
Why were the lawyers wrong about their claim? Well, they probably don’t watch college football enough to know what their target audience sees and wants to see in improvement on the game. Also, these types of lawyers are mainly grifters and are only in it to win money. They were wrong because facts always wins over feelings in the end.
This is fine. pic.twitter.com/A1Uf5ozAqS
— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) October 16, 2022
Last Saturday’s Alabama-Tennessee game had an attendance of 11.6 million fans watching. It marked the third-game with a fan base over 10-million already this year.
Congrats to Bryce Young getting a NIL deal with Dr. Pepper 😎🔥 pic.twitter.com/eqKVqKnNob
— Alabama DieHards (@DiehardsAlabama) August 22, 2022
The game was so intriguing that fans forgot about all the transfer talent on the field, all the NIL deals, academic cash awards given out to both teams, and not to mention; Alabama QB Bryce Young starring in Dr. Pepper Fansville commercials that were broadcasted throughout the game. And no, I did not just “fans plain” you guys, lol. Those are funny commercials.
WHY NIL is Great for the Future of College Football?
Let’s just do a few facts on the benefits of NIL in a growing sport like college football. For starters, common sense fans would see NIL as a way to celebrate an athlete getting paid life changing money. Also, College athletics is a repetitive routine like in the movie ‘Everyone’s Hero’. No matter how many times a batter strikes out, tells you to throw in the towel, you just keep swinging!
Again, these people were against stipends, academic awards, transfers, NIL opportunities and pretty much everything else that mattered. Just remember, all of these things have improved the game and these are the same people who told us that it would destroy the game.
It just goes to prove what my father says to me and what his mother said to him, “Empty barrels make the most noise.”
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Lovely article! Thanks for sharing, so much good info!
I’ve always thought that college sports would be far more entertaining if we see their success on the field and see that that translates to more, since so few make the NFL and even fewer succeed. Plus, it encourages more people to become college athletes if they have a better shot at rewards.
Glad these kids are finally getting paid