Opinion on NIL, Ruiz, Portal, etc

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This is just me expressing my opinion and I’m doing so on here because I’ll probably get lambasted on the other, more popular boards

I hate all this shyt…And I’m going to have a hard time cheering for a bunch of players that we won bidding wars for (especially the junior and senior transfers getting cars and shit like that)

I mean Ruiz openly tweeting commit watches and shit like that… I’m not into him being the face of Miami Hurricanes football.

I know kids playing for the uniform and lifelong pride of their teams has been working its way out of the game for some time. But I can’t see how a bunch of 21 year olds from UCLA will care about a rival matchup vs. FSU, for instance…Especially when the Noles kids may have a chip on their shoulder at being “shorted” on the NFL front.

I’m just ranting…And I know I didn’t make any strong argument in this post…And I know kids have a right to go after whatever they can get. I’m just speaking for myself as a lifelong canes and more importantly, college sports fan (I gave up on pro sports a while ago), I’m losing interest fast because of this shit.

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I dislike it intensely as well. I think we’ve opened a Pandora’s box, and the wealthier schools with greater fan associations as well as schools in popular vacation venues will have a decided advantage. A lot more dollars are going to pass through to the hands of players, and I predict enmity between players in skilled positions and others. Already recruiting players to backwater venues is difficult. This will make it more difficult.

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All it takes is a willing administration and one billionaire. Miami pisses Ruiz off and we’re back to a low budget program.

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I’m mixed…We are just lucky we have Ruiz. There has to be better guidelines and almost a tracked salary cap type of style. It’s the damn wild west and I don’t think anyone has an answer…I do know bama and the like can go fuk themselves, now that they don’t have an illegal pay advantage.

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It’s just getting bigger imo…Although it’s nice to be closer to their tax bracket.

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There just have to be established rules with no gray area, and also legal contracted verification that is handled 100% the same across all of College sports. Have some type of standardization, vs simple rules and the wild west.

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I’m all for kids getting paid, but it’s a little odd right now with payment and no contracts.

I’m still not actually sure what Ruiz does. All I’ve really heard is he has helped the government get a lot of money back from Medicare/Medicaid overbilling/scams/etc. Certainly plenty of that in SoFla (even by their elected Senator), and his new company seems to be more tech focused than litigation focused.