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Message: [QUOTE="FireballPhil, post: 5438758, member: 553"] my point is simply that being a basketball player is one occupation. To say there should be an NIL structure just because they are the players on the team is insane. You can extrapolate that to every other profession, as they all have "superstars". People are focusing only on the entertainment industry, especially when you compare movie stars to players. Does Taylor Swifts band get paid as much as she does? It takes them all to be a team and put on a show. If you have superstar salesmen should they get NIL? All areas of work has different incentive systems but we forget that these guys and gals are college students. They get a bunch of stuff for free in exchange for playing the sport. The schools make money and then fund scholarships. Or improve dorms. Or whatever, trying to improve the livelihood of all students, just not a few players.Are they being taken advantage of because companies are making money off of them? No because they are not supposed to be professionals. they are supposed to be students. Who get an education while refining and honing their skills. They have stepped up in serious talent level steps because not every high school kid is good enough to go to a D1 school. But they aren't professionals. If they can prove they have learned and honed their skill to a more elite level, it will become their job, and then they will get the pay and bonuses. It is very sad that a college kid is making 100x more than most people on this board and throughout the world. It is sad that those who don't have the money end up paying more because they jack up prices on everything, including sports. I am even more sorry it doesn't make sense to you, because the world needs more empathy. Are we, by pushing NIL, taking away the last few years of true fun before they have to actually work? The great majority are not going to be pros. So let them be college students. [/QUOTE]

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