Posted on 04/21/2022 12:05:33 PM PDT by Nifty
Last summer, Quinn Ewers was a highly-rated senior quarterback at Southlake Carroll High in Texas who signed a deal with GT Sports Marketing for $1.4 million. But the governing body of Texas high schools ruled he would forfeit his high school eligibility if he signed the deal. So Ewers graduated early and enrolled at Ohio State in order to get the money. He spent last season on the Buckeyes roster and has since transferred to the University of Texas.
As for Gallagher at Laurel Highlands, he has decided to play football in college and is considering Pitt, Penn State, West Virginia and Notre Dame, among many others. Jeremy Crabtree of On3 said Gallagher’s NIL potential is so great because, “He’s got a great brand from a social media standpoint, plus he’s actively engaged at building his brand. He’s actually working on his brand, whether through posting pictures while on his unofficial visits to colleges or highlight videos. He’s doing a good job of establishing an identity for when he can do an NIL deal. He’s just not doing TicTok dances.”
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Rooney’s company helped broker a deal for two basketball players from Bronx, N.Y., who are considered two of the top sophomores in the country. Ian Jackson and Johnuel Fland last year signed a sponsorship deal with Spreadshop to make their own personal brands to be featured on the organization’s platform. According to a New York Post story, the two will be paid four figures per month. New York’s state high school association allows NIL deals and Rooney’s company works with Jackson and Fland on improving their “brands.”
A high school kid getting 1.4M for a marketing deal of his image, isn’t about the kid, its about the priority of their parents, or lack their of...
Mo’ money!
The Transfer Portal ruined College sports.
This means there is a fandom out there that consumes sports media on this kid. Who makes up that fandom? Is it grown men who are college and pro sports fans? If so, that is pathetic and they really need to re-evaluate themselves.
How dare they pay the kid $1.4million in a free society????
Brand?
Working on his brand?
What is he a steer?..................
‘The Transfer Portal ruined College sports.’
no; not at all...college football needs parity, to hope to compete with the age old bluebloods...
the transfer portal will open the market for good players who can play now and not be stockpiled...
HAH!!
Just wait until the college (and before long HS) “student” athletes get their “union” going. THAT’S when the real fun will begin!
LOL
Sarcasm or not?
Maybe it’s time to end the hypocrisy of college athletics (And we know this really only about football & basketball!)! Lets the professional sports industry fund minor leagues in these sports. Get them off the taxpayer dole! Maybe the schools can make some scratch off it by licensing their names. That way associations can be maintained so alumni can do tailgates parties in order to fantasize about their youth
Taxpayers can get back to funding education at the college\university and now high school level. This kind of thing particularly at the high school level will not serve the minority community well! A community that desperately needs cultural emphasize in the importance of an education. Not more cultural reinforcement in getting the benjamins now! Where they’ll be spent as fast as they get them.
This isn’t going to affect 99.9% of high school athletes.
It will foster the creation of high school super leagues with players likely going pro or more likely going to big time college programs.
And it will leave the vast majority of leagues without blue chip prospects for regular kids to play in. This is a good thing.
there are women online making hundreds of thousands of dollars for just trying on lingerie. or getting money on onlyfans for more, for doing nothing but primping or playing with themselves like a horny whatever and making sounds
yet
this young man is making money off his image due to his actual athletic talent - because he could not get this money if he had no talent - and this is somehow not right.
I hope. It’s a good thing. He don’t ban high school kids from working. This whole “except for athletes” thing has always been silly.
The taxpayer does not pay for colligate sports, TV revenue does. Those multi-million dollar coach contracts and fancy training facilities are paid for by donations and TV revenue, not out of a college's general fund. And in most big schools the TV revenue also pays for all of the non-revenue sports like volleyball and LaCrosse.
The NCAA recently started the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) program to allow college students to make money from licensing their name while still playing college sports.
The original article in this thread is about extending NIL to high schoolers.
And what about Baseball, which is a College sport and also has a full Minor League system?
eliminate junior and high school sports...
separation of sports and state is in order...
Whether it's good or not, whose choice whould it be? The government's?
I swear, plenty of people here want to create thdeir prsonal version of Heaven on Earth, just as much as Socialists.
The same government who can tell you what activities your kid can't do, is the same government that can teach your kid about fisting without your consent.
“HE has a great brand from a social media standpoint”????
I thought they recruited athletic ability. !!!
Schools exist for learning as educated citizens form foundation of civilized society. High schools sports creat fodder for professional sports meat grinder at the local taxpayer expense. The process continues unabated in colleges and universities.
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