Interesting historical perspective. The âuncompromising NCAA gets smacked down by the Supreme Court, and everyone is worse offâ phenomenon is not new
https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/article264068951.html
SMUâs NIL collective is going to pay all football and basketball players $36k
I just saw this too. Like the Texas Tech womenâs BB deal, this is clearly a way to entice future recruits into these programs. SMU has been trending better in football, but Texas Tech has only been above .500 twice in the past ten years.
And honestly, I think this will work ⌠some. The really good football players are still going to the really good football schools. I think this will definitely help Texas Tech recruit better players.
I still have no idea what the NiL rules are. Or are intended to be, I guess is the way to put it.
Rules??? Those are for suckers only.
I dont care if you cheat, just dont do it illegaly
I havenât read the article yet ($$), but the tweet gives some more detail about how Oscar can earn NIL $$ â not in the US.
Side benefit, Bahamas is a 0% income tax country.
The other thing theyâre trying to do is change Oscarâs visa status from an F-1 student visa which prohibits him from earning income in the US to another visa classification, which Iâm guessing is O-1A for âextraordinary abilityâ as an athlete defined as Olympic medal caliber or equivalent. I have no question that heâll meet that qualification, but the sticking point, I think, is that the O visa requires an employer sponsor. He canât self-petition. So, who is the employer when heâs earning NIL money from various sources? Does UK put him on work-study and thatâs his employer?
Iâm sure that Dad is very stable and happy in life and isnât trying to live vicariously through his kids
This will end wellâŚ
âPioneersâ
What a choade.
9 year old 2nd graders. Of course youâre dominating the competition if the majority of kids youâre playing against are 2 years younger.
Anyway, I donât see a huge difference between this and child actors or toddler beauty contestants or Mickey Mouse Club type singers/dancers.
Some of the kids are well adjusted and end up being perfectly fine adults and some flame out and their life peaked when they were 9. The parents matter, but some parents can do everything right and the kid ends up like the latter and some parents might do everything we disagree with and the kid ends up perfect. Hell, some parents of 2 kids might do everything the exact same and each kid has a completely different outlook.
The parents are educated and seem like intelligent people. The husband seems more gung ho and the wife seems like the rational one (not surprisingly the husband has a Masterâs in Counseling and the wife is an engineer I guess).
Are these kids worse off than similarly aged YT stars that my daughter watches like the Tannerites or Ryanâ World or CharlisKitchen or whatever else Iâm listening to in the car to school?
To the last point I guess atleast it is something physical and athletic. Proly ends badly though
Well said. Iâm not sure thereâs much of a difference when it comes to the emotional toll that type of environment brings on. But at least they are being physical and hopefully not destroying their body in the interim.
That said I cried last night when my 2 year old failed to hit 5/5 on her hoop in our living room so am I doing it wrong?
maybe need a daddy sports psychologist Dragon. I got a guy
Made the mistake of telling my twins first one to his a long 3 on small outdoor goal here last night gets 20 bucks.
Hah just what I need another therapistâŚ
Sounds like you created a monster.