NIL Millionaires walking the halls of high schools..

[SLBK]

1 hour ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Exactly what I said. Half those players don't qualify to be in college and it don't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. 

1. What do their academic qualifications have to do with your comment that they “act like monkeys let out of their cage?”

2. The NCAA has minimum grade requirements to qualify for eligibility. Where do you get your information that “half don’t qualify” or that they have a “third grade education.” 

[strongx]

4 hours ago, MLREB said:

I know a coach or two that will be moving on to a different career if it makes it to the high school level. High schools don't pay enough to add this drama to the current job description. 

I can only imagine. But with all the $$ in the area, maybe it will work out well for them. No doubt it would be very awkward coaching a kid who is getting paid more than his coach. Some kids already think that way anyway.

[BarneySox2007]

2 hours ago, SLBK said:

1. What do their academic qualifications have to do with your comment that they “act like monkeys let out of their cage?”

2. The NCAA has minimum grade requirements to qualify for eligibility. Where do you get your information that “half don’t qualify” or that they have a “third grade education.” 

How soon we forget the fiasco at the University of North Carolina a few years ago when it was reported some of the players had 3rd grade reading skills and nothing happened. I could write you a book about who all came in and acted like a pack of monkey's. Do you need a refresher or do you claim to be that ignorant.

[MSURacer]

If the money is there to be made, I don't mind it being paid out to the right people. I would much rather a broke college kid be getting that money than have it lining the already-swollen pockets of coaches and administrators. 

And while we're at it, I wish they WOULD let high school kids get in on the NIL action. I don't see how it's any different than the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks who has to go to work at Sonic after school to help the family keep the lights on. Like I said, if somebody's willing to pay them, let them earn. 

I don't care about socialism, capitalism, communism, alcoholism, or any other -ism people like to throw around. Labor, mental and physical labor, is what keeps this little social experiment called "civilization" going, and there's always a pie to be divvied up. At least divvy it up fairly.  

[SLBK]

3 hours ago, BarneySox2007 said:

How soon we forget the fiasco at the University of North Carolina a few years ago when it was reported some of the players had 3rd grade reading skills and nothing happened. I could write you a book about who all came in and acted like a pack of monkey's. Do you need a refresher or do you claim to be that ignorant.

I would love a refresher. You are taking an outlier case and applying it to all college athletes in the UNC case. You have provided no examples of kids “acting like monkeys” in any of your replies. And judging by your spelling and grammar in this thread, you’d be lucky to have a 3rd grade education. So I would love for you to explain exactly what you mean when you say kids are acting like monkeys let out of their cage when playing college sports. Please.

[BarneySox2007]

10 hours ago, SLBK said:

I would love a refresher. You are taking an outlier case and applying it to all college athletes in the UNC case. You have provided no examples of kids “acting like monkeys” in any of your replies. And judging by your spelling and grammar in this thread, you’d be lucky to have a 3rd grade education. So I would love for you to explain exactly what you mean when you say kids are acting like monkeys let out of their cage when playing college sports. Please.

I'm not going to set on here and write you a book but a bunch of monkey's covers a lot of territory especially character. I watched as this slowly slid out of control under Phil Fulmer at UT until it made me so sick I don't pour a dime in to that crap any longer. As each generation evolves what's right and wrong differs plenty. The whole issue here is regarding  paying kids money to play college football which 95% wouldn't be there if they had to pay for that education out of their own pocket. You ever see the guy that wins the lottery and dead broke a few short years later, well that is what we're fixing to do with a bunch of kids. If the Agent dads aren't enough headache for high school coaches wait and see what this NIL situation does.

[theawesomebro]

56 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

I'm not going to set on here and write you a book but a bunch of monkey's covers a lot of territory especially character. I watched as this slowly slid out of control under Phil Fulmer at UT until it made me so sick I don't pour a dime in to that crap any longer. As each generation evolves what's right and wrong differs plenty. The whole issue here is regarding  paying kids money to play college football which 95% wouldn't be there if they had to pay for that education out of their own pocket. You ever see the guy that wins the lottery and dead broke a few short years later, well that is what we're fixing to do with a bunch of kids. If the Agent dads aren't enough headache for high school coaches wait and see what this NIL situation does.

you sound more bitter with each post and every time you call kids names, you are the one who looks bad.  

maybe you should find some kids to look up to...

[thegreatone36]

("I may be old but committing to pay a kid that is right now a junior in high school 8 million dollars when they walk on the field the first day in college broken down over three years is a little to much for me to deal with. ")
But the years and years of kids getting paid big money under the table hasn't been too much for you to deal with? And it wasn't too much to handle?

("The last game I ever attended at UT was when Tyler Robinson played for Kentucky and have not been back since and never plan on ever going again especially now. My company gets all kinds of free tickets to almost any game I want to see and I give them out to my customers and most of the time I have to call a dozen before finding anyone who will even go anymore.") Seems you don't like UT in particular. Hard time to giving away tickets? Funny thing, they seem to be pretty popular for people to pay good money for on gameday?

(" I thought it was a bill and by luck I opened it up instead of throwing it in the bin for my book keeper and it was Alabama tickets and that was two hours before kickoff when I did. I get in the truck and headed that way and got caught at the light at the hospital and a couple of older people were waving me down and I opened the window and they had tickets also but couldn't go and wanted somebody to use them as to go to waste. There I am by myself going to the Alabama game with their free tickets and the one's Home Depot sent.")
Ok, so Bama tickets make you happy. Bama=OK. UT=Not OK. 

"(When I see a man at a college or pro football game running around with a football jersey with another man's name across his back reminds me of a very small minded individual or a total out and out jock sniffer. I'm a grown man and I don't look up to kids so with all that said the one's that do should lose their Man Card. Only exception is family member's. When grown adults start seeing high school kids at the local high schools with NIL future contracts in the hundreds of thousands while their struggling to make ends meet will be when the bubble pops. Personally I think college football has opened the Pandora's Box that can't ever be shut again and has dug itself a hole it will never get out of. I'll just set back in my easy chair and watch it all unfold  just like I'm telling you all. Why go to a college football game and watch a bunch of grown men with third grade educations that have someway found their way into college as Basket Weaving majors act like monkey's that have been let out of a cage for lord knows how much it cost now when you can go to the local zoo and see the same show for a fraction of the cost.)"

You are so off base here that I don't even know how to rightfully respond to it. 

("Not really. We have turned college football into everything it shouldn't be. Beat Bryant would roll over in his grave if he saw what has happened to the game now days.")

Let me guess, you don't think Bama has never paid a player? Only Bear Bryant? Why not General Neyland? Bama can do no wrong is what I see from you. 

("I watched as this slowly slid out of control under Phil Fulmer at UT until it made me so sick I don't pour a dime in to that crap any longer. As each generation evolves what's right and wrong differs plenty. The whole issue here is regarding  paying kids money to play college football which 95% wouldn't be there if they had to pay for that education out of their own pocket.")
Interesting fact: it is always the Bammers that have the worst things to say about Fulmer. Is that because of his dominance of Alabama during his tenure by chance? One time even beating them 9 years in a row? I notice Bama fans have liked all of the UT coaches since he left.....hmmm. 

So ultimately it hasn't been the years of ALL major NCAA programs (Yes, even your beloved Alabama program) that has also paid money under table, it wasn't all the Millions that Jimbo and A&M have paid for the  #1 recruiting class, it's not the NCAA rich getting richer for decades. For you it is Tennessee getting a top quality 5 star QB that could've picked any school or NIL deal in the nation and chose to go to UT. Got it.

[BarneySox2007]

28 minutes ago, thegreatone36 said:

("I may be old but committing to pay a kid that is right now a junior in high school 8 million dollars when they walk on the field the first day in college broken down over three years is a little to much for me to deal with. ")
But the years and years of kids getting paid big money under the table hasn't been too much for you to deal with? And it wasn't too much to handle?

("The last game I ever attended at UT was when Tyler Robinson played for Kentucky and have not been back since and never plan on ever going again especially now. My company gets all kinds of free tickets to almost any game I want to see and I give them out to my customers and most of the time I have to call a dozen before finding anyone who will even go anymore.") Seems you don't like UT in particular. Hard time to giving away tickets? Funny thing, they seem to be pretty popular for people to pay good money for on gameday?

(" I thought it was a bill and by luck I opened it up instead of throwing it in the bin for my book keeper and it was Alabama tickets and that was two hours before kickoff when I did. I get in the truck and headed that way and got caught at the light at the hospital and a couple of older people were waving me down and I opened the window and they had tickets also but couldn't go and wanted somebody to use them as to go to waste. There I am by myself going to the Alabama game with their free tickets and the one's Home Depot sent.")
Ok, so Bama tickets make you happy. Bama=OK. UT=Not OK. 

"(When I see a man at a college or pro football game running around with a football jersey with another man's name across his back reminds me of a very small minded individual or a total out and out jock sniffer. I'm a grown man and I don't look up to kids so with all that said the one's that do should lose their Man Card. Only exception is family member's. When grown adults start seeing high school kids at the local high schools with NIL future contracts in the hundreds of thousands while their struggling to make ends meet will be when the bubble pops. Personally I think college football has opened the Pandora's Box that can't ever be shut again and has dug itself a hole it will never get out of. I'll just set back in my easy chair and watch it all unfold  just like I'm telling you all. Why go to a college football game and watch a bunch of grown men with third grade educations that have someway found their way into college as Basket Weaving majors act like monkey's that have been let out of a cage for lord knows how much it cost now when you can go to the local zoo and see the same show for a fraction of the cost.)"

You are so off base here that I don't even know how to rightfully respond to it. 

("Not really. We have turned college football into everything it shouldn't be. Beat Bryant would roll over in his grave if he saw what has happened to the game now days.")

Let me guess, you don't think Bama has never paid a player? Only Bear Bryant? Why not General Neyland? Bama can do no wrong is what I see from you. 

("I watched as this slowly slid out of control under Phil Fulmer at UT until it made me so sick I don't pour a dime in to that crap any longer. As each generation evolves what's right and wrong differs plenty. The whole issue here is regarding  paying kids money to play college football which 95% wouldn't be there if they had to pay for that education out of their own pocket.")
Interesting fact: it is always the Bammers that have the worst things to say about Fulmer. Is that because of his dominance of Alabama during his tenure by chance? One time even beating them 9 years in a row? I notice Bama fans have liked all of the UT coaches since he left.....hmmm. 

So ultimately it hasn't been the years of ALL major NCAA programs (Yes, even your beloved Alabama program) that has also paid money under table, it wasn't all the Millions that Jimbo and A&M have paid for the  #1 recruiting class, it's not the NCAA rich getting richer for decades. For you it is Tennessee getting a top quality 5 star QB that could've picked any school or NIL deal in the nation and chose to go to UT. Got it.

Sorry you must be from the entitled generation. Just get back with me a five years when all this explodes in everyone's face. Giving a high school kid 8 mil commitment as a junior in high school is like the local Otis Campbell going into a mini market and winning the Trailer Park Bingo Scratch Off and becoming an instant millionaire but ends up running through it all in a year and filling bankruptcy just after. Sorry my opinion sticks to you so bad, get over it.

Edited April 6, 2022 by BarneySox2007

[thegreatone36]

19 minutes ago, BarneySox2007 said:

Sorry you must be from the entitled generation. Just get back with me a five years when all this explodes in everyone's face. Giving a high school kid 8 mil commitment as a junior in high school is like the local Otis Campbell going into a mini market and winning the Trailer Park Bingo Scratch Off and becoming an instant millionaire but ends up running through it all in a year and filling bankruptcy just after. Sorry my opinion sticks to you so bad, get over it.

How about you "get over" these players getting paid. Salty much?

[BarneySox2007]

21 minutes ago, thegreatone36 said:

How about you "get over" these players getting paid. Salty much?

Honey let me be your Salty Dog.

[ItsAlwaysSunnyInAtwood]

On 3/30/2022 at 8:20 AM, BarneySox2007 said:

The last game I ever attended at UT was when Tyler Robinson played for Kentucky and have not been back since and never plan on ever going again especially now. My company gets all kinds of free tickets to almost any game I want to see and I give them out to my customers and most of the time I have to call a dozen before finding anyone who will even go anymore. There are a percentage of people that feel the way I do about paying college kids that kind of money and will do the same as me and walk off. Don't believe me just watch. Colleges know that and so dose UT, that's why they gave up seats to build a large pavilion to suck the money out of all the Otis Campbell's pockets while they put down those $13 Tall Boy's or the fat hogs that need a big seat to set in they replaced down near the field to wolf down all those ten dollars hot dogs because they can't fill the place up anymore. Why can't they fill the place up anymore,  because people like me are tired of it.

The simple answer to your question..

The reason the  Vols can't fill up neyland consistently is because they haven't been consistent winners. That's the only reason don't kid yourself about the rest.