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Author Topic: Oscar’s camp wanted 8 million NIL deal. handycat Player Member # 2323 posted 06-02-2023 10:42 AM                     This information is probably inaccurate. At least according to a Coach Cal tweet. None the less, the size of some NIL packages is ridiculous, at least IMO. Collegiate athletics is supposedly for amateur athletes. It’s difficult for me to understand how someone making millions to play a game is anything other than a professional. I suppose I am naive. https://www.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/articles/report_oscar_tshiebwes_camp_asked_for_8_million_nil_deal_to_return_kentucky/s1_17171_38873905?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email& mb_edition=20230602&mb_loc=right_h Posts: 5490 | From: decatur ill. | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged Tiptree Administrator Member # 844 posted 06-02-2023 03:28 PM                     You and me both. I don't mind an entrepreneural kid earning money from his own business printing caps or jerseys with his likeness on them. Good for that guy! But, that isn't what this is. Universities are now the brokers for NIL deals. That means corruption. Big money always brings corruption. I also suspect that with all the high-profile players moving willy-nilly to a new school that we will find more corruption. Either via NIL deals, or old-fashioned booster "exuberance", the marketplace for basketball talent just expanded from rising freshmen to EVERYBODY. The sport I grew up loving to both play and watch is ... gone. -------------------- Tiptree “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posts: 13709 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged Bama Cat Player Member # 153 posted 06-04-2023 09:51 AM                     Overwhelmingly YES! This is nothing more than boosters giving $$$$ to make $$$$. It's worse than the old days when they paid kids to do nothing. I look for the NIL to change or to go away when the NCAA wakes up and realizes they made the worst screwup in their history. Posts: 14373 | From: berea, ky, usa | Registered: Sep 1999  |  IP: Logged

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