BearDownU - The #1 Arizona Wildcats Sports Source!

https://twitter.com/TheWildcaster/status/1522384441246507008?cxt=HHwWgICjgaulzKAqAAAA

Rich people getting mad at regular people for making money. What else is new.

I always felt atheletes should be able to profit off their likeness. For example if a player wants to make money for an autograph, or appear in a commercial etc. I have no issue with NIL at all. What is kind of strange imo is having an unofficial free agency, and what are essentially bidding wars. Seems the blue bloods in college football now have a glorified payrolls for players. This is the part that loses me considereing the other 99% of programs could never in their dreams pony up the sort of cash schools like UT and A&M have. This is really my only concern.

I think there are good arguments for and against this

The flood gates are open. It's smart of schools like Texas and A&M to push the system to the absolute limit.

when you are a good college athlete, someone at the school is making money off you. Might as well help some of that damn money trickle over to the damn athlete. Better them than some over paid school exec.

If you didn't know that this would ruin college sports from the beginning, then you are extremely naive. If college athletes wanted to make money prior to age 22, they should have played semi-pro or international sports.