College Football

[Jungle Rat]

Heh

[DooKSucks]

Matt is as dumb as a box of rocks if he really did score a fucking 15 on the Wonderlic...

[Jungle Rat]

He likes to party too. Gotta cut that out.

[Jungle Rat]

[DooKSucks]

For 2023? If the kid wasn’t in the portal before 5/1, he won’t be eligible for 2022…

[Jungle Rat]

It's a joke. The comments are the best part. Joseph Ossai is a Longhorn graduate who plays for the Bengals. Their fans are morons.

[eCat]

Lane Kiffin is just a gift

[Jungle Rat]

LOL!

[hedge]

That's hilarious...

[eCat]

I like Fisher going after Saban

but Fisher just indirectly asked reporters to investigate him and turn over every rock to see if they can find anything

it was not a good move.

[aTm]

[sardis]

Lane Kiffin’s loving this…

[Jungle Rat]

Oh hell yeah he is.

[Jungle Rat]

He was going to be on Dan Patrick today but the SEC commish just put a gag order on all SEC coaches. That would have been great.

[DooKSucks]

Neither Bama nor Aggie want a motivated NCAA snooping around. In fact, no P5 program wants the NCAA snooping around. It doesn't matter though. The NCAA is toothless and worthless.

[aTm]

I dont really see how the NCAA can get at most schools that have their ducks in a row. Collectives of donors are forming essentially new businesses to market the athletes. Greg Sankey was quoted today that what they see is not NIL but “just straight payments.” But thats not really true.

Whats happening is that the collectives are just buying out the rights to each player’s name image and likeness up front. Essentially buying from the player the right to market them in the future. Then the collective recoups some of what they pay out from whichever of the players become profitable. They are essentially just marketing agencies. Since the players are selling all their rights up front, yes it looks like "just straight payments" but from the player's perspective they are cashing in the future value of NIL that may never materialize for them in the future. Risk is transferred from the player to the collective which is able to hedge because they are invested in almost every player and inevitably a few will become the stars on the team.

[eCat]

your premise would make someone assume that as a marketing agency they have a goal to turn a profit off the merchandising of the player.

That goal does not exist.

[aTm]

Yes. A&Ms collective is structured as a for profit corporation, but obviously I imagine their goal is break even at best and any extra money going to more players or with donors having to reinvest to cover losses. Some other school’s collectives are structured as charitable organizations, and Im interested to see how that works out.

[sardis]

We have a couple clients that are investing in these. I suspect, in about 3 years, the IRS is going to crack down on those who claim to be trying for profits yet lose money and take deductions. It’s equivalent to a client deducting expenses related to his wife’s horse farm.

[DooKSucks]

We have a couple clients that are investing in these. I suspect, in about 3 years, the IRS is going to crack down on those who claim to be trying for profits yet lose money and take deductions. It’s equivalent to a client deducting expenses related to his wife’s horse farm.

My father’s use of his farm and farm number to avoid sales taxes on vehicles and show losses on income tax returns was always legitimate…