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I agree, 4 year contract to start! Wait that sounds familiar…

In all seriousness – model it after the NFL and do away with years of eligibility, it’s the only way to force parity. All new recruits enter a draft. This way they can all stop pretending like their primary goal is education (I know it is for some, but many I feel would drop classes…[Read more]

They way I look at it, what goes around comes around. We will have some hard times ahead as long as Whitt is still head coach and BYU has their billionaire donor, but it all well come to an end. Whitt will be gone and Utah can begin rebuilding the football program and BYU’s billionaire donor won’t be able to save BYU’s programs no matter how…[Read more]

You could be a Utah lifer as a fan and still be trolling. Regardless, there’s nothing to add to this. Have a good night.

It’s not really tampering though is it. They just have more money to offer.

I am just about done with this shit.

Once they’re determined to be employees of individual schools, I would think that’s what’s going to happen. It’s absolute, utter bullshit that you can devote time and resources on a specific player and then have some other school sweep in and scoop the player up at no cost to itself.

I’m not a troll. I’m a diehard Ute that’s been a season ticket holder for 15 years (for basketball and football). I’m also an active member of the church. I genuinely don’t understand what you’re saying.

If he wasn’t getting paid, he obviously wouldn’t be going there. I don’t think that means the church values winning more than its principles though.

Clark Gilbert didn’t say the university wouldn’t allow pay for play. They obviously had a bunch of NIL deals in place for years before he even made that comment. Per the above, he said that it…[Read more]

AMEN!!! Utah fans who want to s*** on other fans for not being loyal need to read your post! NIL is #1 problem in college football these day. As far as Utah football, I say Whittingham right now is the #1 problem in the program. I think many Utah players could have been salvaged and stay at Utah if it wasn’t for Whitt’s poor mismanagement of…[Read more]

Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

Is this a troll attempt? It seems like you’re coming at this in bad faith. You know exactly what I mean. If you don’t, you can take the night and figure it out.

I don’t understand your example. What do you mean by standing in the church?

There is no going back. Frankly, the idea of investors purchasing teams is probably the best path forward, if it leads to a super-conference that is NFL-lite.

Same here (regarding MLB)! I used to scour over the box scores in the newspaper, knew stats of many players, watched the standings and games religiously. Then free agency happened. Then the strike happened. Then my interest died, almost completely. Maybe it was for the best, as I devoted way too much time to it.

The same has happened to me with…[Read more]

Why? Because you believe I should. Here’s one example to satiate your appetite. Standing in the church. We deem these actions as a negative representation of our faith, and if you continue to engage in these actions, there will be repercussions. Seriously, was it that hard to actually come up with that yourself?

I think the only hope is for a super-conference to form that becomes a de facto professional league. It would then have some rules about contracts, salaries, etc. The current model is wholly unsustainable. NIL is the death of college football as we knew it…hopefully, it is not the death of college football altogether.

If you’re going to argue that they could/should enforce it, it’s definitely on you to provide an example of how they could do that legally.