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Manning could be first $10 million a year player as a freshman
Get ready because a current high school junior could raise the bar on this whole name, image and likeness arms race in a couple of years … and raise it through the roof.
How much? Try $10 million a year before he ever takes a snap in a college game. Every player should be hoping he gets that because it will raise money for everybody.
That’s the number Darren Rovell of The Action Network threw out there on The Dan Patrick Show last week and don’t think for a minute it can’t happen.
“Arch Manning I could see making $10 Million as a freshman in college.”
–@DarrenRovell joined us to discuss NCAA NIL rules
For Darren’s full appearance: https://t.co/7BcyBRTeNH pic.twitter.com/fhrEk2Ilk0
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) July 1, 2021
It may be an obscene number to some. Completely ridiculous to others. None of that really matters because everybody wanted college athletes to be paid, but the schools aren’t going to do it out of their budgets which throws it into the free market place.
Sure, he’s got the marketability. A pair of uncles who won a Super Bowl, a grandfather that was legendary in college football before he was 20 years old over 50 years ago and a marketing support system around him in a close-knit family that knows how to capitalize on it.
Throw in the fact he may be the most polished high school quarterback in the last few decades (maybe ever) and all of a sudden, $10 million a year might be on the low side.
You may not like or think it’s fair but if you thought this whole deal was going to be fair and equitable for everyone you obviously don’t know how the business world of sports works.
The guess here is nothing can be done to hold down this genie that has gotten out of the bottle and nobody is going to be able to get it back into that bottle. Forget about it. That’s not going to happen and it won’t be regulated very well.
“When you say, ‘Who’s the guy who’s gonna come in and blow this thing up?’” Rovell said on the show. “That’s the guy who I think of. But he’s got two years to go.”
Don’t expect this to be the norm for players coming into college. Probably over 99% of high school players don’t have the support system or the name to pull off anything like that.
Few players project as well in terms of his skill set as Manning. He’s got to show it on the field, but one guarantee in all this is he’s told that by his grandparents and entire family because they know.
It’s the rest of us that are looking at how high he’s going to raise the bar on the NIL rules.
NIL + transfer portal + no NCAA rules will equal chaos
It wasn’t particularly surprising to see Trey Knox make the first public splash with the new name, image and likeness deal and it’s the first step into murky waters nobody knows anything about.
Oh, there are people that think they know, but they really don’t know. They are guessing.
We all are right now.
About the only thing we know for sure is the NCAA has thrown up it’s hands and completely given up. The kangaroo court that has tried to make billions off college athletics for years knows it can’t control this.
The feeling is chaos is right around the corner.
That’s why they really didn’t even try to come down from the mountain with stone tablets on this thing. Congress is watching and if nothing else, the NCAA’s real over-riding concern is figuring out a way to keep the money coming in when laws start getting passed taking away that control.
A couple of big-time agents for professional athletes have told me they have no idea what’s going to happen because about all they do know right now is this is not like pro sports where the market is sort of established and there’s a going rate for things.
In college athletics right now it doesn’t take a brilliant person to see how they get around the restrictions being put out there that have loopholes large enough to drive a couple of semi trucks through with ease.
Maybe other Razorback players have signed. Knox’s bubbly personality and ability to get that across along with a good social media presence and a dog landed the first announced deal with PetSmart. Having a dog helps in a lot of areas in this day and age. Everybody seems to have one.
Everybody is figuring it out as we go along.
And you can bet Nick Saban and Alabama are at least three years ahead of this whole thing. The select few college football teams that are the only places where you can win a national championship these days are going to have it figured out.
It will be the same thing in college basketball. I’m waiting for the first Kentucky or Louisville seven-foot basketball player on a race horse social media posting. Eric Musselman has probably had that idea at some point.
The elephant in the room, so to speak, on this whole thing is how it’s handled with legal casinos. With nobody apparently ready to step out in front, I’m not sure it would violate any rule for a college athlete to sign a million-dollar deal with the legal casinos in the state of Arkansas.
How fast could a lawyer be in front of a judge on that one if somebody said no?
What judge wants to put a cap on the limit someone can pay a college athlete?
Arkansas has a state law that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022, but the NCAA said last week that, well, schools could go ahead and do whatever they want to until those laws take effect … and nobody knows if the laws are even going to fly through any legal challenges if they are too restrictive.
Just for fun, throw in the transfer portal where players can effectively leave once for no reason at all or maybe bounce around if they can come up with a good lawyer.
While schools can monitor athletes’ social media accounts, they can’t control private messaging in all of the various forms.
Say a player at one school talks to a buddy at another school. There may be a record of the call but nobody is going to be able to know what was discussed unless you really want to open can of privacy violations.
Don’t think it won’t happen. Especially when players find out where the most money can be made.
The best part is nobody knows for sure what they and can’t do.
And the media doesn’t even know all the questions to ask.
