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Originally Posted by justjim
Now we are going to pay High School kids to play sports. Most States, including Florida, will allow High School athletes to get paid for “their name, image and likeness”. Professional players can make as much as 700 million playing baseball. Some get over 100 million for batting 250/260. 400 million if you are a reasonable good golfer and play for LIV. College level sports will allow you to get payed and the best players are gravitating to the Big Conferences with the best players. The Olympics, the epitome of amateur sports, are professionals now. Well, I could go on but you get the picture. Is a “sports bubble” being created? Are sports more important than education?
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NIL resulted from the NCAA monopolization of its student athletes. The fact is....college sports are the economic engine for most D1 colleges/universities.....not the Sci Tech, Biology and History buildings on said campuses. You can make an argument that that is the wrong priority...but you can’t argue the fact. Because NIL was a result of court action....it’s implementation and roll out was pretty unrestricted. I think it needs to be scaled at some point. As far as HS athletes...there simply isn’t that much of an NIL marketplace unless you were some sort of generational talent or Lebrons kid! In either case, if someone is making money off of your name, image or likeness....I definitely have no problem with anyone....regardless of age, ‘copyrighting’ their brand from these ‘pirates’!