Recent content by GopherTheJugular

Is that common in sports after high school? As a grown man, I'd have a hard time showing respect like that for someone unless it was reciprocated when I entered a room he was in.

What law school did you go to, just curious. Your posts on this have been great.

I thought the Bucky/Bucko thing came up before he had the chance to transfer. Like, once he started playing good enough to keep getting on the field, it seemed people started the nickname change. But he totally finished out the season with that nickname - if it would have bothered him I'm sure...

Yeah, it's better than saying we can't afford the portal as much as other teams so we have to rely on high school, but that's about it.

Me too. He or someone close to him, even said something about how it was about taking care of his mom because they lived somewhere poor, in Chicago I think?

Well once people quit watching and the tv money dries up...that's about all we can hope for.

Good read, thanks.

I was gonna click, but it's si.com so probably AI generated and with mistakes?

Good point, I forgot to consider that unlimited NIL won't make up for the difference in revenue sharing for a majority of the players.

I agree that the closest would be SEC and B1G together, but the players could easily threaten to jump to the ACC and make that the premier conference for college football. I don't really care to see a capped league though that spreads the losses around more evenly. I still like teams coming...

Not.Gonna.Happen. Why in the world would anyone think these athletes will voluntarily come together to limit their compensation???? This isn't the NFL, there is no group of owners that can lock the players out. If the B1G tries, all the talent goes to the SEC, etc. If the NCAA tries, how can...

And that's what the best ones will do, they'll sign in a different conference. And then it'll just be analogous to before NIL: Before NIL: B1G schools make you go to class and SEC doesn't. After NIL: B1G schools make you be a part of CBA, SEC doesn't. Now they get their advantage again.

But then who goes first? Like, why would the B1G athletes want to lock themselves into "restrictions" while the SEC sits idle and lets their athletes continue with unlimited restrictions? And what would the motivation be for the SEC to try, now that they have a recruiting advantage over the B1G?

Who would the players be "bargaining" against? Any answer you provide will be easily explained away as "not happening", but alas, I'm sure you'll try anyways.

Can you explain more? If there are better schedules, doesn't that muddy the waters? I guess what I mean is, when these conferences last expanded people on here were talking that top teams were gonna have to get used to more losses because now Texas and Oklahoma are in the SEC waters, Oregon...