If you’re not happy with the changing face of college football, trust that Kirby isn’t, either.
Imagine learning on a Zoom call that the guy you’ve been yelling at in practice about conditioning and effort while also arranging their NIL package has communicated with an agent that he’s about to hit the portal.
I hope Kirby has a good primary care provider, because I know my blood pressure would be off the charts right about now.
When the NCAA relented on the one-time free transfer, it changed college sports forever.
So much for the “Number 50 on your program, number 1 in your heart”…GO DAWGS!!
It was clear to anyone with a lick of sense after the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in O’Bannon that the scholarshiped athletes – Universities relationship is subject to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act that the NCAA would have been better off creating students athletes bargaining group and negotiating a landscape both sides could live with.
Cartels gonna cartel.
100%. The NCAA keeps fighting against the tide and makes everything worse off. It holds on to this farce of amateurism when they could have found a reasonable solution two decades ago that would have prevented this free for all.
It’s past time to have a bargaining unit that sets caps on salary, transfer, and even provide academic standards and support. The NCAA and University leaders seem to prefer this wild west model though or hopes Congress can rescue them rather than work with players on a win-win solution.
I’m convinced the NCAA and its members are making it as bad as possible to get their precious antitrust exemption.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence – some guy
It can be both/and. 😉
There will alway$ be an hc hired for what ever sport, will the time that current HC’s (CKS included), just look at the dumpster fire that is college football and athletics in general, say “thanks for the memories, but like Elvis, i’ve left the room”, ca$h that last check and head off into a better life…GO DAWGS!!
I expect that given all the money he has made he is going to look at his other options shortly. I think he will bow out in another 1-3 years. The we will go back to the middle of the road team that we were forever.
I’m just glad everything didn’t go crazy like I said it would once play for pay was permitted.
The slippery slope remains undefeated!
Kirby cracks me up. Don’t get me wrong. He is the GOAT, but give me a break. I would like to hear Kirby explain how he makes 8 figures, but that’s OK because his primary focus is achieving excellence. Where as a particular player is not focused on excellence if he wants to maximize his compensation. Kirby says what he needs to say in order to make Georgia the best football team possible. That’s what he’s paid to do so I really don’t have a problem with it. The player is also doing what he feels is best for him.
He never says that money shouldn’t be a consideration. He just says that it shouldn’t be the only or the primary consideration.
My suspicion is that he would respond by saying he’d do the same job the same way for a 10th of what he’s paid while some of these players won’t give the proper effort in exchange for full market compensation.
CFB needs a Sheriff and badly.
Its needed a tailored antitrust exemption. No commissioner or sheriff could do more than the ncaa right now without landing in court.
When *every* rule is determined by the courts to be an “*unreasonable* restraint on trade”, shockingly we end up with no rules! The easiest (and most recent) is the Vandy quarterback getting the “JUCO time counts towards your 4 years” thrown out… The rule is entirely reasonable, but there it goes!
So was the rule that said a college player couldn’t sign a contract with Nike. I think that you’re conflating:
1) what is a rational rule for the sake of an amateurism model and
2) what is a reasonable rule for the sake of industry profit?
As the later is what controls, “reasonable” can’t be viewed the way Kirby (or us) would like it to be viewed. Can you think of any private industry that has an eligibility timeframe? Neither can the courts.
See my response in the playpen
The Court did not rule that the Antitrust laws prevent counting JC years toward NCAA eligibility violate the Sherman Act. It ruled that there is a possibility that it may so rule, and therefore Pavia would suffer a greater harm if he has to sit out and then wins his lawsuit 2 years down the road than the NCAA would suffer if Pavia played and then the Court ruled in favor of the NCAA after trial. That is a subtle distinction.
Roster management ain’t what it used to be.
I was listening to Jay Bilas on the Russillo podcast this morning drone on and on about how badly the players have been mistreated and that everything now is perfectly fine because college athletics is just mirroring the ways of the business world. What he says is logical and hard to disagree with, but that does not mean what he describes as the new normal is a product I want to follow or watch. College basketball is pretty much dead to me (see the current destruction of our roster) and other than watching UGA, I barely watch college football anymore. Hell, maybe I am the outlier.
The “ways of the business world” is a pretty nonchalant attitude when what is in actually in the balance is “how do we compensate children for entertaining us during the only stage of life when they will have any time to spend on educating themselves.”
We’ve traded one form of exploitation for another with no consideration for doing the right thing by these players and that is a sad commentary.
They are not children. They are grown men. Whether you like it or not, they have the same freedoms as you and I.
16 year old recruits are hardly grown men. Can’t sign a gd apartment lease at that age.
I will be interested to see the studies in the near future of how many college athletes with NIL $ end up broke by age 25. The results from the NFL are abysmal…I believe it was over 70% at one point and they have even greater access to professional advisors. I’m sure some of these college agents are less qualified to guide these kids for a lifetime.
There is no doubt but that we’re crippling many of these kids and it was so damn predictable.
Somebody should have been looking out for them.
When you say “somebody”, who do you mean? parents, universities, coaches? the Sheriff Harold mentioned above? Union bosses? Management? Clergy? Who?
Everyone.
Is there a rule making it impossible for them to hire a financial advisor? People in all walks of life make foolish financial decisions every day.
There’s no rule requiring the 15 year old you just handed heroin to ingest it so I don’t really see any issue. Not your problem or responsibility at that point.
Time for CFB to break away from the NCAA and take these issues up. The same issue NFL veterans had with rookies making more than 3-5 year veterans is now popping up at the college level. With the money comes the entitlement attitude, and the loss of a mental competitive edge. Giving a teenager $100k and thinking he/she will listen to your demands, while they have dollars signs in their eyes, is a near impossible mountain to climb. The tuff things is sports at the high school and college level use to have discipline as a core value. I despise college basketball and how it has eroded team values and that mentality has now taken hold of college football.
Not going to do diddly without an antitrust exemption.
The NCAA should make Kirby King and then get out of the way.
GO DAWGS