Auburn Ready to Help Players 'Make Some Money' with NIL

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34 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

In many cases, the exact same people who they've denied social benefits their entire lives, and in a state currently trying very hard to return to its Jim Crow glory days. 

I don't know if it's even considered hypocrisy at this point. 

It's like don't you dare say the word repatriation right? Alcohol was against the law the white people that broke the law that made money off of that became legends. Eventually made it legal. Black people that sold drugs are of course the worst of the worst and to make sure we get who we want we make different penalties as far as crack and cocaine. 

It seems sports is something that minorities can use to maybe acquire wealth or just in school finally level the playing field but people are upset at the thought of that. If someone was on welfare or something people would bemad at that. It's like you can't win. Now why on earth if a kid was at school on a academic scholarship and they became known for being very good at let's say math.....why would that student be expected to pay back their scholarship or be heavily taxed if they decided to tutor? Nobody says well you wouldn't be as smart if Auburn hadn't allowed you to attend school there.  it's asinine.

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3 hours ago, McLoofus said:

I mean, Kemp just signed something in GA saying that kids can earn on NIL but the schools get to keep more than half of it, right? Did I read or remember that wrong?

This is the part that is ludicrous. 

Schools can require athletes to pool up to 74.99% of their money earned in an escrow account that would then be shared with other athletes. However, it would not be able to be withdrawn until a year after they graduate/leave school. 

Not the school but shared by other athletes, and would not be able to get to it until a year after leaving school...

Will never fly with the athletes... Nice try Governor 

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Cleaned up. Stop with the politics.

 

 

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8 hours ago, McLoofus said:

I mean, Kemp just signed something in GA saying that kids can earn on NIL but the schools get to keep more than half of it, right? Did I read or remember that wrong?

75% is what I thought.

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https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/31561084/new-partnership-allow-college-athletes-earn-money-content-posted-twitter
 

pretty cool for Twitter to get on board 

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On 5/14/2021 at 2:24 PM, steeleagle said:

This is the part that is ludicrous. 

Schools can require athletes to pool up to 74.99% of their money earned in an escrow account that would then be shared with other athletes. However, it would not be able to be withdrawn until a year after they graduate/leave school. 

Not the school but shared by other athletes, and would not be able to get to it until a year after leaving school...

Will never fly with the athletes... Nice try Governor 

Wow!

Georgia just hamstrung their universities in recruiting.

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On 6/6/2021 at 10:11 AM, AUGoo said:

Wow!

Georgia just hamstrung their universities in recruiting.

 

On 6/6/2021 at 12:34 PM, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Brian Kemp at his...well I’ll leave it at that lol 

It only gives the schools the option to redistribute players earnings. UGA will most likely not do this 

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1 hour ago, W.E.D said:

 

It only gives the schools the option to redistribute players earnings. UGA will most likely not do this 

I don't know why my opinion got singled out for you to quote, but s/o to the mods for deleting it, I suppose...I thought it was very apolitical 

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4 minutes ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

I don't know why my opinion got singled out for you to quote, but s/o to the mods for deleting it, I suppose...I thought it was very apolitical 

Probably hard to mention the Gov and it not be "political" 

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Have we released any details yet? I don't get the AD saying we didn't have a plan. Fun fact, when you tell people (recruits) you don't know what you're doing, they believe you.

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1 hour ago, japantiger said:

Have we released any details yet? I don't get the AD saying we didn't have a plan. Fun fact, when you tell people (recruits) you don't know what you're doing, they believe you.

Seems like you don’t get a lot. Yes, there is a thread on the program Auburn is using to help students with this. I will let you actually do some work to find it. 

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1 hour ago, japantiger said:

Have we released any details yet? I don't get the AD saying we didn't have a plan. Fun fact, when you tell people (recruits) you don't know what you're doing, they believe you.

Here's the link from the thread. I didn't bump the actual thread because it had gone south like some tend to do here. 

https://auburntigers.com/news/2021/5/20/general-auburn-athletics-launches-spirit-a-comprehensive-name-image-and-likeness-program.aspx

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7 hours ago, gr82be said:

Here's the link from the thread. I didn't bump the actual thread because it had gone south like some tend to do here. 

https://auburntigers.com/news/2021/5/20/general-auburn-athletics-launches-spirit-a-comprehensive-name-image-and-likeness-program.aspx

Thanks...

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9 hours ago, japantiger said:

Have we released any details yet? I don't get the AD saying we didn't have a plan. Fun fact, when you tell people (recruits) you don't know what you're doing, they believe you.

There was an announcement and video on the program pretty quickly after those statements. 

Who is telling recruits we don't know what we are doing?

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7 minutes ago, W.E.D said:

There was an announcement and video on the program pretty quickly after those statements. 

Who is telling recruits we don't know what we are doing?

Fans, it appears.

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6 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

Fans, it appears.

Glad we're doing a great job at negative recruiting ourselves

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The program looks pretty comprehensive.  I especially like the financial/tax training afforded the athletes.   It will be interesting once some of these efforts start to ramp and we see some "innovative" branding ground carved out by some of these athletes.  It will also be interesting to see who and how quickly some athletes test a schools claims (edit: not really the school's claim; but a brands claim is how the law is written) that an athlete's endorsement choice conflicts with the schools contract.   Also, the Alabama (and MS) law is pretty specific on the types of businesses an athlete can't take NIL money from (booze, drugs, casino's, vaping, etc.).  I expect that to be challenged as FL/GA laws; for example; are silent on that type of agreement.   Glad they'll be able to make $$; it will certainly be another rock on the pile of the young athlete to learn to manage. They are pretty busy kids already without running their own businesses. 

Edited June 14, 2021 by japantiger

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1 hour ago, W.E.D said:

There was an announcement and video on the program pretty quickly after those statements. 

Who is telling recruits we don't know what we are doing?

I didn't get that from what Japan said. he seemed to think that Greene says he didn't have a plan. But I never read that or saw that implied. What Greene said he didn't know, was how it would affect recruiting, and until the dust settled on the specifics and how it might affect recruiting, he didn't know. 

Too much misinformation and reading between the lines. After that article, Auburn did announce their plan called 'Spriit;, so it's not like they made it up in 2 days.

The issue is that Greene said it while others implied they have no idea where this is headed until some group comes up with standards and guidelines. THe States are going ahead and doing something broad, only bc the NCAA is dragging their feet, because the NCAA wants Congress to pass legislation regards labor laws, etcs...

That's what Greene is alluding to. I haven't seen where fans are telling recruits Auburn doesn't have a plan...other than those that stir all the pots..

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1 hour ago, steeleagle said:

The issue is that Greene said it while others implied they have no idea where this is headed until some group comes up with standards and guidelines

I agree with this. It was a real bad statement by him. We had something in the works and he made it sound like we didn't know what was happening. 

Not sure I really get those comments, but at least we have something 

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1 hour ago, steeleagle said:

haven't seen where fans are telling recruits Auburn doesn't have a plan...other than those that stir all the pots..

“Fun fact when you are telling people (recruits) you don’t know what you are doing, they believe you.” - Japan 

This statement is something completely made up by a fan and not at all in the realm of what the AD was trying to get across nor is it reality. 

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