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Don't worry, a couple trips to P4 schools will cover it and then some.

There was a recent court ruling stating that two years of JUCU do not count against your four years. It raises what I think is an interesting question based upon college athletics now being minor league pro sports. At what point can a player no longer play in college? For example, a player goes to the NBA after two seasons at School x. The player bombs out after three years in the NBA or some other professional league different than college. Why can't the player go back to college, finish a a degree and get paid NIL money? I would imagine a man with three years of NBA or D League could name a pretty high price at a college. I hate to even bring this up because as disgusting as it sounds, the logic connects.

When one door closes, another one opens. Before I judge his leaving, what is his NIL value?

There is an episode of The Office where one character mistakenly admits to taking gifts from a vendor in exchange for gift cards or something like that. Real life is sitcom at Kent. In the world of sanity after something like this happens, employees are sent additional compliance training. I wonder if Kent was at least smart enough to do that.

When athletic directors see "other resources", I'm guessing that means solid gold toilets and urinals in the athletic practice facilities. The funny part is athletic directors created an illusion that all of the new found money flowing into college athletics would benefit the greater university systems. A lot of really smart people bought that crap. A lot of really smart people still buy that crap.

And is more famous. And gets better girls. I could go on and on with all of the "Ands". I never had much sympathy for college athletes taking a beating from fans and the media. They were famous adults and with that came some abuse. I've gone from not having much sympathy to having zero sympathy. If a 19 year old NBA, NHL or MLB player takes a beating from the media and fans, so can the new breed of college athletes.

He gets paid to perform a task. He is a professional football player the same way players on the Akron Rubber Ducks are professionals.

Is 98 really that big or is there a depth issue from the photo? I'd think a dude that size would be on the first team.

Oh well......

Thanks for posting this. I have no problem with what he is doing and found myself shrugging my shoulders when I saw it. Heck, a part of me hopes he gets a raise. Look, college athletics are now minor league professional sports. This happens in professional sports and the vast majority of the time nobody really cares after the compensation is renegotiated. Oh well.....

Not anymore. The portal to Hell was the single doorless stall in the men's room on the home side of the Rubber Bowl.

There are consulting companies a university can hire to positively impact their score by gaming the system.

I love the perspective. They always say the hardest thing about Harvard is getting in. Harvard is always #1 on the survey. 97% of the students who get into Harvard graduate. They have massive grade inflation. To me, that isn't a good look. If a school is truly challenging it's students and not producing just another generation of donors to the foundation, the failure rate should be higher. I don't blame the kids for this. They are probably very smart. It's not their fault the university isn't challenging them in a meaningful way. While living in the Carolinas, I once had a choice to make between an Elon grad and a YSU grad. The Elon grad was smart enough, but struck me as someone who could be lazy and entitled. The YSU grad worked his way through school at an auto plant working the night shift. I hired him because of that. He was a great, hard working employee who made me good money for two years. He has his own business now and is what I would consider to be successful. Regional schools like Akron, which really defines most universities, have plenty of kids like this attending and provide a great learning experience for someone who doesn't have the same advantages as others. The key for Akron is developing ways to admit those kids who are capable of graduating. The key for us as alumni is to provide support for these kids so they can share the same success we have. Things like direct financial support or a paid co-op, to name a couple of opportunities, are very important to these kids. It isn't easy, but duty isn't easy.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-us-news-college-rankings#:~:text=US News is probably the,might end up being miserable. I think the people who rank the study put as much effort into it as sports writers put into the preseason MAC football rankings. What I see when I look at the University is an institution that produces excellent business and community leaders than KSU across colleges across NE Ohio and Ohio in general. Maybe their Fashion Merchandising program has us beat, but I'd hire an engineer, business, teacher, nurse, etc over a KSU grad any day of the week.

On the other hand, dumb kids need a place to go to college too.

Is the winning trophy a paper crown from Burger King?

It's almost as if you could run a test to see if giving away Item X for nothing would draw a bigger crowd than giving away Item Y for nothing. Instead of giving away food in order to sell tickets, couldn't you give away tickets to sell food? Is the goal of the promotion to move food or move people to the game? If the goal is to move people from their living rooms to the game, incentivise the ticket and not the food. Once get someone into the stadium, you have them captive. Heck, college football games last forever now. It isn't unreasonable to assume that at some point during the marathon game experience someone is going to get hungry or thirsty. I don't know if this could be a lost leader strategy or not, because the lost leader strategy assumes a profit will be made. It's sort of like one though.

I was listening to ESPNU in XM this morning. The two dimwits that come on before full ride were talking about spring practice and how the NCAA made a mistake by not allowing colleges to practice and play against one another. It was like listening to the morons 25 years ago who convinced universities to bankrupt themselves for athletics. They pulled out the same old arguments about the money spent would be an investment because the "exposure" would pay for it. They even pulled out one of the newest arguments that is complete crap but is a buzzword these days..... the scrimmages would reduce injury. I'd say more of the arguments, but we've heard them a thousand times. The bottom line is this. If colleges eliminated spring practice, they would be doing everyone a favor, including fans. It's horrible entertainment and any decent player isn't really put through the paces because they a fearful of injury.

There's always the law of unintended consequences. It could be a lot of vomit to clean up in the car after the ride home.

I don't think free concessions would cause me to go to a game. It's an interesting try though.

They need a better SEO consultant.

They should pay CK for advertising on his board. College athletics are now minor league sports. If they want something, they should pay for it.

If it's so easy, how come when I Google "Akron Zips NIL" I can't find it.

We aren't the target audience anymore.

In addition, soon we will be at a point where the best of the best of the best end up annually at 5-6 schools. Those schools will win the championship every year. Same in football. There is nothing interesting about it. I can't even dislike a lot of teams I used to because I don't care enough to dislike them. I find myself increasingly uninterested in college athletics and it's more than the NIL. I enjoy going to Wake Forest games, even though that's getting increasingly difficult, and watching the Zips from afar. Other than that, I really don't care much for it and I used to love college athletics. Maybe it's because it's now minor league sports and I don't like minor league sports.