| Subject: Re: One Player at $5 Million Per, Entire Roster at $6-8 Million |
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Date Posted: 14:39:58 12/12/24 Thu
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An Observer
's message, "One Player at $5 Million Per, Entire Roster at $6-8 Million" on 13:24:20 12/12/24 Thu
I couldn't agree more, except when it comes to the topic of paramount interest to this board, the Ivy League. Then I am in violent agreement.
NIL payments will set the recipients clearly apart from the rest of the students, and many of the other athletes, even in their own sports of (presumably) football, BB, hockey, lax, et al, as some will benefit greatly while many maybe not at all, but especially in the non-marquee sports. The recipients will feel themselves different, and the rest will also perceive them as different. Entirely unhealthy.
In this last great burst of coddled late adolescence we call the college years, when the young should be learning from a diverse yet equally academically ambitious cohort, the NIL recipients will be a class apart, and not necessarily heralded by their erstwhile peers for it. A shame.
The beauty of Ivy sports was you saw most of the athletes in class on a regular basis. We are already seeing how this can lead to the "one and done"-at least as far sticking with the original college or school you were recruited by. Yes, transfers can happen and have always been a fact of life, but I shudder to foresee a purely transactional approach to the Ivy athletic/education model.
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