"After we went to the 2023 Final Four, eight players wanted to transfer or seek better NIL deals. They told me they loved it at Miami, but wanted to seek a better deal."
Miami coach Jim Larranaga retires mid season. Cites NIL
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I don't blame any coach who doesn't want to put up with this crap.
NIL is in the process of making college sports permanently extinct. NO ONE had an issue with a player getting paid for their jerseys, media appearances, corporate appearances, etc but the direct payments are a sick hijacking of the initial intent of the compensation movement. And our very own Kain Colter is absolutely a villain of this story. Besides blowing up what could have legitimately been a top 5 2013 team he pushed this issue way too far. Hopefully he repents for his sins against the game!
He’s probably around the age of our average poster here. Adapt or become extinct. Everyone has an excuse nowadays for their poor record.
My vote for worst ever case of maligning a former NU player.
How about it. Now people are ragging on Kain??
Let's blame him for our new football stadium while we're at it.
To be fair, NIL is just a court ruling or a compensation concept.
It is people who are willing to pay "whatever it takes to win" who are destroying or perhaps upending college athletics.
Ironically, Miami of all schools is bellyaching about NiL,
Or… hear me out… it’s the grown-ass men who finance paying these kids millions who have the real problem.
It always amazes me how pro-free market, pro-capitalism America is… until it comes to college sports.
Another killer is the no-sitting-out transfer rule. It certainly destroyed most interest in recruiting. I’d also argue it destroys any concept of academics for these guys.
You’re off on this…NU fans have already prided themselves on trying to be competitive with stringent academics. That used to be respected by many and was the main reason the B1G loved having them. Now…with players changing school every single year they’re eligible…literally nobody cares about NU academics and we’ve become a detriment to the conference.
Lol don’t be a clown. Kain was a selfish prick by all accounts. He chose himself over the team. I will never respect that.
Miami made the Final Four just two years ago largely thanks to players brought in or retained through NIL money from John Ruiz and I don’t think Larranaga was publicly bemoaning the system. He might not have been fully comfortable with the landscape, but if he still had a team that was that good (and Ruiz wasn’t in financial distress) I’m not sure he’d be saying these things.
That’s the thing. Capitalism is regulated. The current sh*tstorm of college sports has no regulation whatsoever. Any non-blue blood program that has a phenomenal player will lose him to transfer the next season. There is no “building up” a program through recruiting anymore. We’re literally at college sports’ worst point right now.
This is the thing everyone keeps forgetting. The system enriched itself for years off the labor of student athletes and pretended the millions were justified because “free education.” Now the pendulum has swung the other way. Eventually it will even out. It will just be painful and messy until it does.
You know what I’d be more worried about? All the Gen X parents raising kids who prefer e-sports and obnoxious influencer TikTok’s over sports and narrative storytelling. That is the one that will have a lasting impact on college athletics, tv contracts and the future of entertainment as we know it.
Point 1 … college athletics is not supposed to be professional athletics. And don’t tell me the system doesn’t benefit in a million other ways while normal paying students get stuck will years of debt.
Point 2 … agree completely. I think society is on a fast track to idoicracy. And it’s not getting better. Scores from elementary schools on up are plummeting everywhere…
Kain has had a rough enough go. Let’s just hope him peace and safety and move on.
Yes. He suffers from mental illness and was homeless and I believe briefly incarcerated. I may be wrong on the latter but google his name. Very sad. I'm sure some of his issues may be from all of the concussions he suffered in college
Some of you guys should just stop watching college sports. Put your money where your mouth is. Currently, you are the fuel that feeds the engine.
