Kirby Smart calls NIL 'a reverse system right now'; says bottom coming in are getting rewarded more than top going out

[BleedGopher]

per the Athletic:

Georgia coach Kirby Smart told Texas high school coaches on Tuesday that he is concerned with the rising figures in name, image and likeness deals, particularly for incoming recruits compared with what current players make.

In a question-and-answer session at the Texas High School Coaches Association annual convention in San Antonio, Smart said he was an early advocate of NIL but that he prefers that his current players are compensated. He said 85 players on Georgia's national championship team last season had some form of an NIL deal.

"You give a young man … $8,000 a month or $6,000 a month, you can say, 'He deserves that.' Well, he might deserve that if he earns it, if he goes out there and plays,” Smart said. “I'm all for taking care of guys that have been part of the program and start and play. It's just that it's a reverse system right now, where the bottom coming in are getting rewarded more than maybe the top going out. And … that makes it really tough.”

Smart expressed concern about incoming freshmen already having access to significant money.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart calls NIL ‘a reverse system right now’

Smart expressed concern about what incoming recruits earn compared with current players.

theathletic.com

Go Gophers!!

 

[FredCoxRocks]

These helmet school coaches are grappling with life after the bag man.

 

[Gophergrandpa]

Kirby is revealing the huge lie of NIL. It isn’t supposed to be pay for play, or a recruiting device, but that is exactly what Kirby wants it to be—as if the players were his employees and he could control their NIL compensation based on actual playing time and HIS perception of their value to the team. But NIL is an outside third-party payment to a person for use of that person’s name, image and likeness. It is a personal royalty contract between the player and the third party that is supposed to have no relation to recruiting or playing time (playing time decided by a coach who isn’t a party to the NIL contract). NIL is an advertising side gig, not a performance based football employment contract. What a joke this all has become. It might be a blessing that the Gophers don’t have a bunch of greasy bagmen lined up to throw huge money at players—perhaps demotivating players from the task of playing football well.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Kirby is revealing the huge lie of NIL. It isn’t supposed to be pay for play, or a recruiting device, but that is exactly what Kirby wants it to be—as if the players were his employees and he could control their NIL compensation based on actual playing time and HIS perception of their value to the team. But NIL is an outside third-party payment to a person for use of that person’s name, image and likeness. It is a personal royalty contract between the player and the third party that is supposed to have no relation to recruiting or playing time (playing time decided by a coach who isn’t a party to the NIL contract). NIL is an advertising side gig, not a performance based football employment contract. What a joke this all has become. It might be a blessing that the Gophers don’t have a bunch of greasy bagmen lined up to throw huge money at players—perhaps demotivating players from the task of playing football well.

Nailed it. Kirby is 100% talking about pay for play which was never what NIL was supposed to be, however we all knew it was going to become that at the highest level. NIL as intended is a great thing and long overdue. NIL in football and basketball has little to nothing to do with Name, Image and Likeness, it is just being used as a way to funnel large sums of money to players and recruits without having to go through back channels. At least this is the case at the helmet schools, maybe not as much at the non helmet places where it is more likely to be used closer to the way it was intended.

Whole thing has predictably been bastardized and become a mess in college football and basketball.

 

[upnorthkid]

Nailed it. Kirby is 100% talking about pay for play which was never what NIL was supposed to be, however we all knew it was going to become that at the highest level. NIL as intended is a great thing and long overdue. NIL in football and basketball has little to nothing to do with Name, Image and Likeness, it is just being used as a way to funnel large sums of money to players and recruits without having to go through back channels. At least this is the case at the helmet schools, maybe not as much at the non helmet places where it is more likely to be used closer to the way it was intended.

Whole thing has predictably been bastardized and become a mess in college football and basketball.

Or he’s saying people are using it to entice people to play places, rather than using it to use established players for their brand recognition. And that the Version of using it to entice people to play places was not the reasoning behind it