Why NIL is Destroying College Athletics with Braylon Edwards

Ryan Ermanni and Braylon Edwards share their thoughts on why NIL is destroying college athletics, along with making it more difficult for young adults to mature and protect themselves. Do you believe NIL is hurting College Sports? Like, Subscribe and leave your Comment below!
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[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

I’m writing this a year later. I live in Terre Haute, IN and am an Indiana State University fan. Our basketball team just finished the season as a runner up in the NIT tournament where they lost to Seton Hall by a basket. They should have made the NCAA Tournament as one of the last 4 in. They won 33 games. They were a fun team to watch. Very unselfish in how they played. Every game ISU employees would pass out envelopes to the fans asking for NIL donations. I felt like I was at a Mega Church and the conman televangelist preacher asking for money so he could buy a new private jet. It’s pathetic. Within a week of their season ending, these unselfish basketball players became selfish and entered the portal. We not only lost our coach but we lost all 5 of our starters who were just juniors or sophomores. We lost all three of our incoming recruits. The NCAA along with the liberal courts and judges who have inserted their ideological views into college athletics has ruined any hope of smaller college programs of the smaller conferences ever building a competitive program. It is sickening and I for one am done not only supporting college athletics but will not even watch it on television. I hope a lot of other people will do the same.

[@GetAlong2GetAlong]

NIL was rolled out poorly: Change My Mind.

[@VeezyfnbTV]

Why is it too much for athletes to make $1mil but if a random college freshman who doesn't play a sport makes $1mil off youtube, instagram or even onlyfans no one says shit? That Danielle Brigoli chick (catch me outside girl) just allegedly made $50mil and she's barely 19... some rappers sign deals and make millions before their 21... an 18 yr old entrepreneur can have a $250mil company before he/she is 21 and it's not too much but when we talk about athletes, NOW it's too much? There shouldn't be a law on how much money a private citizen can make and it's not like they're getting paid to play, they're making money off endorsements... the same way olympic athletes were making money in the 90s when they had to be "amateur athletes"... y'all sound real hypocritical...

[@aem870]

I think it's envy.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

Let me say some shit as you say it. This whole generation of social media kids is a joke. Take for instance the female only fans model who just killed her boyfriend and her parents tried to help hide some of the evidence. This girl and her parents are what’s wrong with our society. Can you imagine being a parent and being okay with your daughter being a prostitute? Letting men pay you to watch you play with sex toys and flip your little man in the boat is exactly that, PROSTITUTION 😢😢😢

[@golfmaniac]

Makes no difference how much money they make the school. The school is the business. Without the business to go play for, and be on TV every week, getting free publicity, you would not know who they are. Paying these kids with no limit will destroy college sports.

[@acrobaticswitches]

No athletes. no sports. No money.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

It destroyed basketball at Indiana State University. We just lost all 5 starters and the 3 incoming recruits to the portal system.

[@aem870]

​@@user-hq2qq1si6n If the players want to go somewhere else, let them go. We live in capitalist societies, players need to eat so whoever offers them the better deal, that's where they go.

[@aem870]

It does matter. If they are creating money they need to get paid. Players have bills too.

[@Jensen-C]

I think it’s funny how a lot of these guys who have careers off of talking about college sports are mad that the guys they talk about for a living are getting a slice of the pie

[@kburk30]

This is out of hand it will drive entitlement culture. This is actually terrible for the student athlete getting the money or chasing the money. All your doing is giving a 18 year old kid a sense of being entitled to money to play sports of which most will not make to a professional level. Might as well not even have a school then.

[@CeanStrauss]

Then the schools, and NCAA, and tv networks shouldn't make any money either. They can put in all that work as volunteers, like you seem to think the student athletes should do. I don't think you even know what entitlement means.

[@n8barnhart]

Well even if they made a cap, people would still just pay under the table like the previous 50 years. It’s the Wild Wild West now and good luck trying to monitor this now.

[@terryhoffman795]

i see a few problems with paying these kids big money. i can see teammates getting jealous and maybe even sabotaging some of the more cocky players. and the biggest problem i see is these kids getting targeted by scammers and con artists and losing all of their money. which will probably lead to some of these kids suing the schools saying they did not protect them.

[@aem870]

Even people outside of schools gets targeted by scammers. All those things are also applicable to people outside of school.

[@TheNichq]

NIL might be ok if those kids had to sign a 4 year deal with the school. You CANNOT let them go from school to school every year. NBA, NFL, etc do not even allow that.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

Good point. I second this motion. Hear hear!!!

[@CeanStrauss]

Why not?

[@TheNichq]

My opinion at this point is they should nix the NIL. Go back to not paying them, BUT allow them to go pro after high school. If you wanna get paid then go pro. Problem solved.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

That makes too much sense

[@nickeddy1823]

The argument against makes sense. It's crazy to call them amateurs when they making money. But the school is making crazy money on their name image and likeness. I get the argument of you like the school first then the player. But when you get good teams and programs making money? The product should be getting some of that money

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

The problem is that the schools aren’t the ones paying the money. I would have no problem with the schools sharing the TV profits but they literally are asking the fans for donations at the games. The only one getting hurt in all this are the fans. Now instead of the schools exploiting players they are exploiting their fans. If you’re a fan of college athletics then you should be mad as hell too.

[@michaelmaas5544]

I was always under the impression that once you’re paid to do something you’re no longer an amateur 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@GetAlong2GetAlong]

I hope those players are majoring in Accounting.

[@aem870]

They deserve the pay. People are just jealous.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

@@aem870says a self entitled idiot 😂😂😂

[@stevenvargo2440]

You heard it from the horses mouth! Deion was also famous for saying that money makes you more of what you already are! If you're entitled, wreckless, careless, immature, selfish, etc. Guess what? Getting paid only makes more of those things. No one should get paid anything until they can handle responsibility without getting paid. It's called chores! Parents need to make their children do more as kids and give them more responsibility before they get to college. But here's another problem: Who determines the value of an incoming freshman? The recruiting sites??? Who makes them qualified to determine how valuable a player is based on his high-school tape??? Nobody can determine the value of a player to his school and his sport except the player themselves. If they're gonna get paid, you shouldn't pay them until after they've played a full year. Otherwise, you're paying them based on potential or projections which you can't quantify or justify.

[@xcwilliams7980]

Before I even watch the video.... thats too damn bad. Everyone has profited of the kids for years, about time they get to make money

[@SuperJuggernaut87]

It's Hurting good smalls schools

[@ttmazz1]

So.... pay ever player in a profit-generating sport on D-1 scholarship atleast 10k/yr.

[@paulsbunions8441]

The cats out if the bag, there"s no way for the NCAA to legislate how much money a private citizen pays a player. Its either all or nothing, this "salary cap" stuff is not feasible.

[@CarsonClaws]

College athletes are the entertainers. Without them there is no college sports. The NCAA makes hundreds of millions of dollars off of these kids. They deserve every right to profit off of their image if they want to

[@TheNichq]

Without the fans, their is no college athletics. I want competion. I dont want one team in a conference being able to buy players because they have 1000x the amount of money. Also, these kids arent even under contract. In the NBA you get paid, and you sign a contract for years. Here, these kids just leave every year. Im fine with the NIL if they had to stay at that school for 4 years.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

Schools aren’t paying the money. The fans and alumni are. Schools went from exploiting players to exploiting their fans. Do your research before you speak.

[@m4stek]

So the coaches can make hand over fist, but the players only make peanuts? The NCAA can make billions, but the kids get almost nothing? Nah, pay the kids as much as they deserve. Stop with the “amateur athlete” nonsense.

[@CeanStrauss]

So if you're a young adult, and a student you don't deserve to make a "large" amount of money? It's ok for schools, the NCAA, and all kinds of corporations to exploit students for billions, but god forbid the ones bringing in the most value to sports make their fair share. 😂 Get out of here with that garbage. And newsflash, older, even pro athletes can make terrible decisions with money too. You "just not liking it" isn't an argument.

[@BadaLogic]

Does paying coaches millions of dollars ruin college football?

[@Milehighmez15]

Without these great coaches, these players are nothing.

[@aem870]

Sounding like a bunch of jealous haters. Keep getting money. They will choose what to do with their money, not you.

[@user-hq2qq1si6n]

Says a self entitled idiot

[@NPNY]

You got what you wanted and once again poor planning and stupid decisions will continue to ruin sports. How’s that Willis at #2 working for you bozos? Listening to you guys makes me realize why I watch sports less and less