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7th grader can’t play up

I don't know much about him, but I trust Rankin

There’s a point to when you just drop this whole conversation!! I hate it for TC kids and program. Coach T just needs to take this thread out. There’s no room for it. Good luck to Smith County and Trousdale in the fall.

There is, click on your profile then go to account and then click on ignored users.

NIL is different state to state as state legislatures have gotten in to the act. As I understand it, high school athletes in Tennessee can't receive NIL money and still be eligible to play sports in Tennessee high schools. Other states, California being one of them, can. And from what I am told that is why a recent QB commitment from California is not moving to West Knoxville to play his senior year of high school football as was originally planned, but is staying in California and transferring to another high school there. He can go ahead and begin getting NIL money in California, where he can't in Tennessee. I don't have any issue with the basics of NIL. It does, however, need to be standardized across the board by all of the schools instead of different schools having different rules based on state laws. The playing field needs to be leveled. Another issue is that too many people have their hands out looking for a piece of the pie. Case in point, the Speyer Group, who is "working with" potential UT athletes, by their own admission, are taking 10% of all monies they get to put deals together off the top. To put that in perspective, the NFL only allows 3% for agent fees, and the NBA 4%. And because Speyre is a for profit company the "donations" they are soliciting from Joe and Jane Vol Fan are not tax deductible, but they aren't giving that info out front. What I see happening is NIL forcing the "super division" of 50-60 schools in football, the upper 2/3 of the power 5 and a few others - to finally be formed. The lower levels of the power 5 and the mid majors just don't have the financial ability to play the NIL game. The power basketball programs seem to be doing a decent job of putting NIL deals together, but they aren't the $8 million type deals, so we'll still see early entrants to the NBA on a regular basis. And surprisingly, I am being told that some baseball programs, UT included, are coming up with enough NIL deals to help the players and their families make up for what scholarships don't cover. But all of that said, NILs are taxable income, so whatever number you hear has 30% taken off the top for Uncle Sam to waste. The schools that have been funneling money under the table to signees and their current athletes aren't going to stop doing that. It's pretty naive to believe that they will.

Since I was a customer at one time and will be again if I need your type of service......call me with all those hard to get rid of tickets. I have a slew of grandkids that I would like to take to the games.

The only teams that compete now have money.

I don’t understand how college athletes being paid is going to ruin football? Like you said, they’ve been getting paid for years anyways. Did Erik Dickerson ruin college football when he took all that money to go to SMU? Plus, why shouldn’t kids be able to take money someone is willing to pay them? Everyone is all about free market and capitalism until it comes to young athletes getting paid.

man, you complain about a lot. we know you hate NIL, the transfer portal, kids these days and the forward pass. : ) messing with you. similarly, I have gone from preferring pro (roger staubach cowboys) to college (UT in the 90's) to high school. I think it's just the natural progression for me because I like the more amateur nature of the game but let's be honest, there is nothing amateur about college. even the olympics gave that up years ago. it's an antiquated idea that only benefits the NCAA, the super rich coaches and the universities. it sure doesn't benefit the kids who have more than a full time job on top of school. it's not the kids fault, it's ours. we made this about money (consumers) and we shouldn't be surprised when the kids get tired of being taken advantage of. college athletes will get paid at some point as they should. kids have a lot of challenges these days. I don't envy them growing up with social media watching everything little thing they do. I think that kid getting paid is the least of his worries. if he has good folks around him, good family, good friends who remind him his pants go on just like everyone else, he will be just fine. look at the mannings. they were probably a good, early example of high level recruiting and they turned out just fine. interesting subject though. thanks.

Oh yeah, you caught me, big fan of TC. I'm sure the avatar gave it away