Has NIL negatively affected college football? Paul Finebaum weighs in! 👀 | First Take 

Coaches are mad because players are negotiating their worth and taking the best deal for them. Which is what all regular people do in their own career fields. It's capitalism.

NIL is still just the NCAA’s way to not pay them. It’s basically saying “we won’t pay you, but I guess you can go and find your own check”

A coach can leave for millions over night for a new job but then it is an issue when a player does it lol what a joke.

No, NIL has not collectively negatively impacted college football. I think anyone who has a problem with college kids getting a bag is jealous or upset they are getting a smaller piece of the pie than they used to

Finebaum keeping it a brick, the status quo don’t like it but it is what it is

The NCAA actually can fix the issues simply pay the players. It was never illegal to pay players it’s a rule they created.

This was never a debate when the coaches and schools kept on raking in more funds do to the “Adult Labor” on the field. Sounds hypocritical

You had to know the backlash was coming once the athletes started to get paid!! The hierarchy always want to make their $ off the labor but.... they don't want to actually pay the labor!!!🤔🤔🤔

I hate how this is being reported as an issue. These kids deserve NIL. NCAA was running a hypocritical process to not pay these kids

It doesn't matter. These kids are entitled to own the rights to their likeness.

Here is fix that no one will like, if you don't wanna pay the college players, don't televise the games.

They should get paid to workout, weight train, and practice as well as game checks for playing.

Even with all this so called corruption/cheating involved in college football, it’s still hard AF to win a conference championship.

The players gets zero % of the billions$ generated by the players, now that's whats disgusting about the NCAA....

Coaches are signed to stupidly expensive contracts that they often don’t live up to. But I also feel that the players should be under contracts aa employees. That would also help limit the craziness if the transfer portal.

No it’s not effect anything negatively as a matter of fact I think it’s doing exactly what it should do give players more exposure and with more exposure comes more opportunities as well as money and for me to think the biggest thing it’s doing is making players stay in college a little longer they’re not in such a rush to want to go to the pros because they’re not getting paid which is a good thing or should be for the NCAA I do think the transfer portal should be done a little more differently tho I also don’t blame players who aren’t getting an opportunity entering the portal because they want to play more that’s the point of entering the portal in general right so tbh rn I’m more mad at the Portal then NIL

at no point have I ever thought the NIL affects college football AT ALL other than the players getting some of what they are owed back for the money they earn for these schools. Why is this a topc in the first place 🤨

NIL and transfer portal are great for the few players but horrible for college football and fans. I have been done with college football.

The boosters have lost there power and and the kids can go wherever they want and not be cornered into these SEC control recruitment.

How dare these kids make money on their name and image instead of the Universities and the NCAA! How dare they, they’re ruining the game now? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm still confused about how NIL works. Aside from ESPN commercials, I never see college football players being advertised anywhere

Mark Emerett and the NCAA had like 15+ years to solve the problem. But they didn't, because they were too busy lining their own pockets. Well this NCAA is here to stay for a while.

Why do they get so mad that the students now have some control.

They want their NIL? Abolish college athletic scholarship programs then and all the other goodies the schools pay for these bums. No more dorms, no more BS Degreees, no nothing.

Na the NIL got these coaches in their feelings. I never forget when Arian foster said when he was on Tennessee and they couldn’t even afford Taco Bell. The coach had to sneak and buy a bunch of tacos for them

Why is that a bad thing that kids are saying “who’s going to pay me the most” like every other person in the world ?

This woman is WAY off lol. Yeah, everyone's concern with NIL was that only QBs would get paid

You have to put the kids under contract for two years that will help out a lot whatever it cost. Whatever you’re willing to pay it’s up to the school but if you put them under two-year contract and make them employees, you will save yourself a lot more headaches

NIL is reason I started back watching College Sports

And a lot of ? Who was getting players are losing them to the highest bidder so you definitely understand certain people's hate

Parity? Has college football ever had this? Seems to me the same 10-15 schools pretty much dominate year after year.

No one is hurt by this. They want you to think that. Everyone is getting paid. It’s because the bigger man can’t have a bigger slice of the pie. They have to share.

Poor coaches I feel really sorry for them

Well, seeing as how college football generates ~$8 billion annually, pay the players directly and you can scrap NIL altogether.

Um Dan, what you said about what players say to coaches about leaving for more money is exactly what coaches do to schools, so why was it ok when the coaches do it but not ok when the players do it?

Greedy older men mad at young mainly college athletes getting money and having autonomy like a college coach.

I would like to express my comments on this subject of nil. Which has dramatically impacted college sports . First & FOREMOST I totally agree that the college athletes should be paid & be able to negotiate their pay with what ever college to whom they choose is willing to pay them what they are asking. But my question is to whom it may concern is shouldn't there be a cap .on the pay for college sports? & furthermore, whom should decide. Is it the ncaa., the state, the state government or the federal government? I ask these questions ' cause if a cap. Isn't yet decided, I honestly think that it's coming to college sports through much debate to reconcile the differences of how much money is going to be appropriated to each & every college to make it a fair playing field & I think that a cap. Is the only way to make it fair to compete amongst each other in how much money each college has to be able to negotiate with college athletes & let the college decide with their cap. How they choose between college athletes with in the cap.. doesn't that make sense or ' am I just not making sense of it all? How say YOU folks?

Get your money.........❤ it.

Su’a Cravens Claims Only the Pac-12’s Programs Didn't Offer Him Money The college football world has had a hectic 24 hours, with Nick Saban accusing Jimbo Fisher of buying players at Texas A&M and Fisher attacking Saban back implying shadiness at Alabama as well. A lot of people had something to say about this confrontation, but one of the more interesting comments came from former five-star USC safety Su’a Cravens. On Twitter, Cravens said every non-Pac 12 school that made him an offer included money in the offer. He claims Pac-12 schools didn’t out of fear of “the death penalty.” Cravens didn’t stop there, though. He said there were programs that offered between $10-20,000 just to have him visit the campus, and all of those schools were southeast of Texas. He added the new name, image, and likeness policy didn’t change anything, it just publicized what was going on with recruiting. “Recruiting was unfair up until NIL because only the SEC was allowed to openly pay for talent which is why they became so dominant last 13 years,” he said. Finally, Cravens called all of these schools, especially Alabama, hypocrites for the way they have approached recruiting lately compared to their public stances previously. “The blatant lies and accusations of other schools pissed me off a bit,” he said. “Especially knowing how they getting down out there lol ridiculous one sided hypocrisy!” Cravens was a second round pick by Washington in the 2016 NFL draft, but he fizzled out of the league, last playing for the Broncos in ’19. Tommy Tuberville, Joe Manchin intend to draft NIL bill after consulting Nick Saban Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville and West Virginia senator Joe Manchin intend to draft a bill to present to Congress that would regulate name, image and likeness activities within college sports, their offices announced Wednesday. Manchin, a Democrat, is a childhood friend of Alabama coach Nick Saban. Tuberville, a Republican and former Auburn coach, also has a long-standing friendship with Saban. Tuberville told Sports Illustrated that both he and Manchin have spoken to Saban about the issues surrounding NIL. Saban and many other coaches have expressed frustration with how NIL funds are being used to entice recruits, but Saban has noted how the NCAA needs “protection from litigation” to enact rules that would withstand legal challenges following last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling. The provision calls for athletes to be ineligible for transfer without penalty for their first three years of school, with a few exceptions. In other words, a star football player good enough to head to the NFL after three years would be locked into the same school until it was time to turn pro. And for many more athletes who aren't three-and-out football players, that would reduce the ability to fully capitalize on the full career value of their NIL rights. This coach's dream of a rule feels very much like it came from Tuberville's side of the table, and it's hard to fathom why Manchin, assuming that's the case, didn't say, "Whoa, Tommy. That will never fly. When the NCAA began allowing transfers without penalty at any point in an athlete's career, it established a right that can't be walked back, especially in a climate where college athletes are quickly gaining more power, not less. The transfer genie is out of the bottle, and it's not going back in. THE NCAA IS CORRUPT AND BROKEN. IT IS OBVIOUS SABAN DOES NOT LIKE THE NIL BECAUSE IT THREATENS THE STATUS QUO WHERE HE CAN WIN ALL THE TIME. THE NIL THE WAY IT IS NEEDS TO STAY TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD. AND GET RID OF THE NCAA. THE OLD SYSTEM WAS THE CASH BRIBES UNDER THE TABLE. IT DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE THE NCAA ALLOWED THE CHEATERS TO CHEAT AND PUNISH WHO THEY WANTED TO. TOTALLY CORRUPT.

Time for NFL to start a minor league football system for kids right out of high school. College football can be reserved for kids that go to college to get a degree and play football as amateurs

Ahhhhh a Macbeth quote!!!

Who cares should have paid the players when you had the chance they ruined there own product by being greedy

Just remember the one percent rule....

I had everything I needed playing ball I starved but but I got a degree

It cheapens the main part if going to school, an academic education. A 4yr paid degree!!!

Wait til your team gets the raw end of the deal with the portal and you’ll all whine. Anyone who can’t see this is terrible for college athletics is naive at best

Plantation football days are over. The players deserve it. They have been ripped off for years. LET THE PLAYERS MAKE THEIR 💰. I STAND WITH THE PLAYERS.

I wish that the NFL has a true minor league system just like the G League.

I think it can hurt by a kid going to a school strictly for a bigger NIL deal and not worrying at all about fit in the program.

If these new rules allowing some college players to get paid millions it will be the beginning of the slow death of college football. College players who have already been paid millions will have little incentive to make the commitment to play at the NFL level.

"Student" athletes need to go get a JOB at sport business and let them play for money and leave the studying to the students in school. No other real student pays in advance for field of studying. Should Pre-Med get paid as Doctors? Semipro Teams have NO business in colleges.

the rich get richer. power schools are going to stay on top and it will always be the same.

It's all about money. Why even continue to call them student- athletes? Regular students work because they don't have everything else handed to them like these players do.

NCAA was stupid lol "We won't pay you but we won't allow someone else to pay you either" Coaches can leave schools to chase money but the players can't lol In fact during NIL we've seen new teams like Baylor and San Diego STate (in basketball) and TCU (in football) actually compete in title games and teams like A&M last year in football paying a lot of NIL fall flat on their face lol

The problem is that NIL has no limits/cap and when you factor in the Wild West nature of the portal, you have a situation ripe for abuse. Schools with billionaire boosters can simply pay for the top talent and small schools that find diamonds in the rough end up being poached by those bigger schools. For fans of those schools, it’s unbearably frustrating and disheartening. Not only does the product on the field suffer, but you can’t form a meaningful connection with the players because they always end up leaving. No one has a problem with these athletes making money off their likeness, but no one outside the fans of the “Haves” wants a defacto non-cap free agency.

“Our student athletes” 😂

He straight up nonchalantly, trying to get his Republican Congress buddies to take away these players (mainly black) money so they can once again control a plantation-like farming system. 😂😂😂

Of course it’s supposed to be for the players. Coaches get paid the money to adjust. Stop crying and play.

I fully agree that the players should be paid for their hard work! HOWEVER it’s tough to see smaller schools or schools who just don’t have big money recruit and develop players into great college football players just to have them get poached by bigger schools and leaving that school in a rebuild for that position. You can’t say “oh well it helps players that get lost on the depth chart” because it’s starting QB’s,WR’s and all sorts of starters for teams. Prime example is look at Arizona State or Wake Forrest, Pitt ect. It’s hard to stay a fan of a “mid” college football team whenever we’re on the cusps of a great season the star QB or WR, DT or whoever leaves for a team that can pay them more!

they have no other way to make money? how about use the education. Oh you mean a lot of money. why do they deserve a lot? the schools were to use to help the students.

I don't like sec thet stay away from texas

The rich and powerful always get mad when the regular folks get a say in how they govern their own decisions and directions. Keep them poor and powerless, and they can continue to be servants of the corporation. Give them a voice and a choice, the corporation wants government legislation to help them now. Corporate Socialism.

why bother with a low level professional sport? which college football is! Instead of following a NFL farm team just watch the NFL!

SEC crybabies and the SEC talking heads buttsore because everyone is paying now not just them

NIL has been great! And complain some schools have more than others.....so what! The Yankees have more money than everyone else. Lakers, GS, etc. Thats business and im happy finally that college players have some kind of power. Pay me period. We preach capitalism and entrepreneurship. They teach it at these very same schools, but get pissed when it works against them. The schools aren't even paying these athletes. They still have to generate the money themselves. That means they got to build a team around themselves. Its preparing them for life after college.

Student athletes deserve to play and get that 💰 at any college they choose! Why bring in the government?! Y'all mfs tripping krazy!

NIL the boosters will find the money to pay players

Well I guess this is the end of athlete's actually getting an education... Back in the early 2000s when I played high school ball man I could only dream of being good enough to get a scholarship and get an education life didn't work out like that but I always wanted to go to Georgia Tech and become an architect... Well best wishes to these young men because the NFL isn't promised

Read the 10th amendment they can’t

I have a question for all those NIL haters and that is what if that was your son or daughter who was able to make money while playing in college you be all for it . Or what if national college sports was one complexion which it was at one time would we have the same type of discussion? Its all about $ and color it always have been now you have people trying to write proposals against it? The same type of people indirectly or their ancestors wrote Jim Crow lol

STUDENT athletes!!! That is a Joke now! Some rich conglomerate should make a Jr. NFL League. If you are going to pay them, then pay them well. Don't take the space up in classrooms with these players who will NEVER graduate!

It has ruined the game.

What made Nick Saban retire from college football & will have several SEC & BIG10 coaches follow him is the idea that they knowlonger have a Monoply on ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ recruits.......Imagine if slave owners had to worry about their slaves being able to transfer plantations whenever they felt like it, they'd quit to 🤭

I am with Paul it's here so accept it... Just a legal way of cheating that's all

I love how espn has cut away from this lady in every segment she’s been in today, you’d think someone would tell her to make her replies a bit more brief so it will fit lmao

Sounds like capitalism at work Get you money kids

hahahah florida isnt skewing NIL...they suck lolol

Paul has elephant ears 👂👂👂

College sports feels so watered down the last few years. Can't tell an 18 year old "no, you need to work for this position". Just go transfer lol

NIL hurt the professional sports if anything, it won’t ever be the same.

College Football 🏈 is rigged

😊o

They still trying to get these black athletes to play for free or crumbs... PERIOD!!!

Y’all don’t want all them black kids to get paid millions smh that’s sick

NIL will destroy this pure and great game. Let it be. Leave this great collegiate sport alone. I'm at least grateful for The Michigan Wolverines winning the 23-24 season before it was tainted. GO BLUE!

Its only a problem when the players are getting paid. NCAA made billions on billions on billions off these kids. All these pale people hating on these kids getting paid for their own image is pathetic.

Everybody is cheating all College Football Coaches paying players

Should Walmart compensate another retailer ?

If you want to get paid then go to the league

Bull free market

Paul is always right on target with this topic.

Bro, they’re still not getting paid to play. Chill

Can you take it back.. too early for off-base analysis 😂

spoiled kids