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Coaching is a paid career. Playing college football is not employment anymore than junior high football is.

I can’t imagine this wasn’t covered ion some early agreed contract. I recall when the back of ticket Stubbs mentioned that ‘you might get your photo taken.’

Why would anybody donate to just to have players just come here for year then bounce? I wouldn't even put the players' names on the back of the jerseys...

College Sports will bottom out and then the NCAA thru the court system will figure it out. Ain't no way college athletics can sustain NIL in its present form.

But is education even required or considered any more?

Speaking of this exhibition tour, I was looking at their schedule for the remainder of the year and noticed that the team championships will be in September at the Maridoe Golf Club, home course of your Mean Green Eagles.

Nothing prevents said players....from going in to coaching and working their way up the coaching ladder. (if they want to make the big coaching bucks). But even at that....there are some lean times...as you work your way up that ladder. I remember the story that Grant told....of how they lived off of (wife) Cece's income, as a waitress at Olive Garden....when he was a GA at Northern Colorado.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2024/6/10/mens-golf-ortiz-wins-liv-event-in-houston Although his team is the Torques (along with Munoz) and not The Cleeks.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2024/6/11/track-field-xc-standout-distance-runner-london-culbreath-signs-with-mean-green DENTON, Texas – Former TCU distance runner London Culbreath has signed with the UNT program for her senior season. Culbreath competed in 30 meets for the Horned Frogs between the 2023 cross country season and a pair of track seasons with TCU. She tallied 16 individual top-five finishes and made a substantial imprint on the program's all-time top 10 lists. She holds the fourth-fastest indoor 1,000 meters time in TCU history, as well as the fifth-fastest indoor 3,000 meters, sixth-fastest outdoor 1,500 meters, and ninth-fastest indoor mile and outdoor 5,000 meters.

Yuuuuppp... Trying to get us coming and going. It's not sustainable. I have thought long and hard about donating a significant amount of money. I've had it queued up a few times to do so. I just stop and draw back and think... why. I have it. I wouldn't miss it.. and I could do it annually with no issue. But... "why" always flashes into my mind.

One thing to keep in mind. No one is forcing these kids to play football. Sometimes we all act as if that’s their only option. It’s not. Let them get a job. Go to work. If they truly want to educate themselves then fine. Pay for your tuition. If that’s by working in a grocery store, do it. If it’s by earning an academic or athletic scholarship fine. But don’t ask me to pay you to come and play at my school and then expect me to pay again at the ticket office to watch you play. I’m no fool

Yeah... like we've all been doing since the government decided to bend us all over and we decided that revolting isn't civil... like... you know... our founding fathers did. The coaches and ADs are often times educated professionals that climbed the ladder rungs for years to get where they are financially. Players, no. They are physically gifted that put in some weight room work in high school and hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions in some cases) are thrown at them because the very ADs and HCs in question are afraid to let others get a leg up on them. There is no market... it's baseless monetization. The players that are going to make real money were making real money through collegiate bag men and NFL contracts. The rest of this monetary spending in this current NIL state of ineptitude is complete financial waste. The University of North Texas and most of her alum do not of discretionary money to literally set on fire. Anyone who defends this system as an alum of UNT or the likes are closer tied to being SJW than caring alum of their respective University.

They'll just make the G5's pay.

The coaches and AD's have made money because the programs they ran made money. Yes, they were paid a handsome salary, but these kids were provided for just not directly. First class facilities, everything I listed above, locker rooms that rival the finest country clubs, top rate sports medicine and rehab facilities, etc... There is value in what they receive for a scholarship in exchange for their ability to play a sport. Now, they should be allowed to make whatever they are able off of their name, image or likeness, but not paid a salary, ala smuT and TX Tech, for just being on the team. If Bill Utter Ford wanted to give Booger Kennedy a truck and a salary to be their spokesperson because he was "Built Ford Tough" then let them.

We obviously have different definitions of “some extra money.”

WHY? Just why? Why? https://harrisonkeller.com/ Regarding where he is from, obviously a nomad.

I feel like people get too riled up about NIL. If you want to help out in that particular regard there are ways to do it. If you don't then no big deal. I think it is good that they players are able to make some extra money. The coaches and AD's have been making tons for years on the players backs.

Me too, but let them earn some money on the side. Leaving that up to the universities just invites cheating. Then again, the NCAA is just a modern day eunuch.

Just idle curiosity. On his resume, it's mentioned that he grew up in the Texas panhandle, but a specific town was not listed.

I’m waiting for the Fan NIL. The athletes can pay me out of their NIL to come cheer for them!

Yeah, this could get real messy. Does/did any college athlete (or cheerleader or band member for that matter) sign a release to allow the networks to film them or use their likeness in any advertisements promoting the event?

Wow, how many other doors is this going to open?

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Would be his fourth school.