10M a year is nothing for how much they're bringing in.
Spot on. I was ambivalent about Clifford returning but eventually concluded it was a good thing. He is inviting more criticism for this if he doesn’t play well.
Yep. I think this is good for Sean. I don’t see an nfl career for him so him getting on the ground floor is an awesome career path for him and probably PSU.
1. They're not wrong. Does anyone like taxes1) It was funny to hear one unnamed player complain about his sport having to fund other non revenue generating sports, in the real world, we call this taxes
2) It's amazing how many players play FCS, DII and DIII football for no NIL and many for no scholarships. It's almost like it isn't a punishment playing for a scholarship alone.
3) People really undersell how important the university name is for most college fans. College Football tends to be very regional. I have always rooted for PSU because I believe its students get a college education and I have enjoyed watching them grow on the field....
No. No one cares about the minors.
I think it's part of what drives the money. Same with things like fireworks. The atmosphere at a college game is a lot different than at a pro game. But of course I understand that winning really draws the fans.
That's possible--it depends how much revenue football brings in once realignment is completed. And I doubt the majority of football players care about that.
Lol... just like MLB went way and the NFL....
Just like you all left the NFL and MLB....once the crying game is over CFB fans will anti up. We are all addicts. Get over yourselves.
He's the starting QB on a program that is one of the biggest draws in college football--thinking he doesn't add value even as a subpar/mediocre/average QB is illogical.
Emmrich and the NCAA started losing their grip the moment they tried to kill PSU football eleven yrs ago and then back tracked within two yrs. Serves them right and it’s only poetic justice that if this movement takes hold the death blow is delivered by a PSU led effort!
They are bringing in $175m a year with most of that in media rights and that will double in the next deal. Franklion has no impact on that. Yes, he and others are way over paid!
Clifford and his organization can advocate all they want with Warren but I wouldn't give them a dime. Players aren't employees of their respective schools and accordingly aren't entitled to anything more than the grants in aid that are codified by the NCAA and bestowed by the member institutions. NIL is outside the domain of the institutions so the players should take the money from their respective NIL deals, be happy they even got a deal to begin with, and go to practice. Warren is a jackass for even having such a meeting and in so doing may have possibly established an ad hoc employer/employee relationship that might cost the BIG institutions money should its players ever attempt to unionize. Wouldn't surprise me if Warren agreed to this meeting but for no other reason just to display some wokeness just to feather his own nest.....and look to become even closer to a professional minor league, which fewer and fewer people will care about, because, well, no one cares about the minors. On top of the NCAA announcing unlimited free agency...err, I mean transfers, my only question is how long CFB lasts as a major cultural center.
Sean Clifford engaged in the process and quoted.
College football players group speaks with Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren, demands include share of revenue
Penn State QB Sean Clifford is part of a players group advocating for more benefits from the conferencewww.cbssports.com
The ncaa and schools have lost any control. Rules they put into place can be challenged in court and can be found to violate labor laws. The kids are paid and have been for years. You can’t grab a kid, give him food and education, and make him work for five years and simply not call him an employee. I can certainly understand a poor kid (slum, trailer court) sweating his ass off at 5am during off season lifting and watching $70m being sent to the girls cribbage team and updating the governors loge while he could transfer out without a big penalty and get adequate healthcare at age 27 from a football injury.
The Supreme court ruling did allow schools to go beyond tuition scholarships to cover cost of attendance, and pay for personal laptops, tutors and even musical instruments or art supplies for classes. Schools also are able to pay for athletes to study abroad, fund internships after they graduate and pay for postgraduate education. I have no problem with educational related benefits but not cash payments to the players made directly from the institution's coffers. That's what NIL is designed for. Warren is opening a Pandora's box by meeting to discuss anything beyond educational related items.
We haven't won a title since the 80s--it failed. You have to adapt with time,
Imho Warren has no alternative. Players are simply going to go where they make more money. If you don’t like having the pirates play against the Yankees, that is where we are. NIL can be so corrupted it is simply boosters paying kids legally. A collective bargaining agreement is the only short college football has not to fall into the abyss of being a complete pro sport.
The Grand Experiment includes winning. They are at school to play football and if they are unsuccessful on the field those scholarships should be revoked. Most aren't in school based on academic merit. What does not running up the score do? These are 12 year olds. The only thing that really ever did was prevent Bama from embarrassing us later on. How do you think bringing up Penn State goes now if they're not Penn State grads and under the age of 50? The Grand Experiment didn't work. I went to Penn State and I'm old enough. 1999 graduate. I just don't live in the past. Without titles the "Success" doesn't exist. That was the goal as we won in 1982 and 1986 then, aside from 1994, failed to live up to expectations and continue to do so.
The fact you think someone that's rapidly approaching 50 is a "youngin" is exactly why I can't take your opinion seriously. Things change--you have to adapt.
"Success with Honor" and "Grand Experiment" are simply marketing slogans that were briefly successful. Other schools have done the same without giving it a snappy title. If those concepts had meant anything significant that egotistical old man would have retired in the 90s with honor. Instead it became all about "409" and "coaching" from the pressbox.
