📝 ⭐️Alabama's 2024 Signing Day Class Update Thread⭐️

[It Takes Eleven]

No more schollys over 1 year.. if these guys become millionaires, they must pay their way -and walk on... no more free rides for these guys.. they have money and can be fed grapes .. take care of the players that are on a full ride.. i’m surprised the campus Commies aren’t rioting, demanding they pay their fair share..

Are you a commie? You believe if someone is already rich enough, they shouldn't get compensation for their contributions?

The players are putting their bodies on the line, as they always have, to play football for a school. You'll only create less stability, and more movement, with a plan to split the team that way.

 

[TerryP]

No more schollys over 1 year..

That's the way it is already. It has been. That "four year scholarship" narrative was bullshit from the beginning. Nothing changed.

 

[24and7]

Are you a commie? You believe if someone is already rich enough, they shouldn't get compensation for their contributions?

The players are putting their bodies on the line, as they always have, to play football for a school. You'll only create less stability, and more movement, with a plan to split the team that way.

If something is not done about the NIL football will be destroyed from within..you will have class warfare in the locker rooms..a struggling lineman will stop blocking for the millionaire QB..

 

[Rsedge72]

That's the way it is already. It has been. That "four year scholarship" narrative was bullshit from the beginning. Nothing changed.

This is true, but at P5 schools the scholarships are auto renewed. Unless of course there is academic problems, school violations, or laws broken. A coach can not threaten to, or not renew a scholarship unless these rules are broken

 

[BamaFan334]

If a player participates a year, and decides to transfer, you are suggesting he should give that money back? Pay his scholarship back?

Is this what I'm reading?

I'm speaking more to the tune of scholarships being four year deals. Remember we've talked about this years ago where more schools were making four year commitments so it wasn't as cuthroat to the players. Things are different now, but if we want to specifically look at one year, sitting out a bowl game only for draft reasons, sure. Did not complete the season. Bowl games are what helps pay for those perks, so you should "work" that game like everyone else that is paid to play.

 

[AirForceBamaFan]

These NIL seas should be like NFL free agency. You get fined if you choose to sit out a game. You can’t just jump ship every year when you don’t like something. If they want to make grown man money…they need to have the consequences of a grown man. You want a big NIL deal? Sign a contract that shows your commitment to the team.

 

[TerryP]

This is true, but at P5 schools the scholarships are auto renewed. Unless of course there is academic problems, school violations, or laws broken. A coach can not threaten to, or not renew a scholarship unless these rules are broken

Define auto-renewed. If they are evaluated every year, it's not "auto."

 

[Slickmullet]

These NIL seas should be like NFL free agency. You get fined if you choose to sit out a game. You can’t just jump ship every year when you don’t like something. If they want to make grown man money…they need to have the consequences of a grown man. You want a big NIL deal? Sign a contract that shows your commitment to the team.

Completely agree. The only will this will all work long term. The players have all the leverage right now.

 

[Rsedge72]

Define auto-renewed. If they are evaluated every year, it's not "auto."

They cannot pull a players scholarship year to year even though it’s only a “year” scholarship at P5 schools.

 

[TerryP]

They cannot pull a players scholarship year to year even though it’s only a “year” scholarship at P5 schools.

I can't fire someone if they don't do anything wrong but I can definitely force them out the door.

In my opinion, the four year deal was all "legalese."

It's a contextual argument.

 

[ElephantStomp]

The players should get compensated whether that’s NIL or whatever, take the players away and you can have 300 Nick Saban’s, isn’t going to mean shit without the players. Only way Saban, DeBoer, Sankey, etc etc etc get to make their millions upon millions is because of the players.

 

[BamaFan334]

The players should get compensated whether that’s NIL or whatever, take the players away and you can have 300 Nick Saban’s, isn’t going to mean shit without the players. Only way Saban, DeBoer, Sankey, etc etc etc get to make their millions upon millions is because of the players.

You have to say that about every single business in the world.

 

[bamafan9201]

Guy I mentioned earlier is coming for a visit 4-star edge Washington's top commitment

 

[TerryP]

should get compensated

You have to say that about every single business in the world.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

I can't fire someone if they don't do anything wrong but I can definitely force them out the door.

In my opinion, the four year deal was all "legalese."

It's a contextual argument.

Oh Yeah

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

If something is not done about the NIL football will be destroyed from within..you will have class warfare in the locker rooms..a struggling lineman will stop blocking for the millionaire QB..

Cowboy, college football is done when the high dollar folks like Paul Bryant Jr say F it I'am out. Not sure how long away that might be.

 

[Rsedge72]

I can't fire someone if they don't do anything wrong but I can definitely force them out the door.

In my opinion, the four year deal was all "legalese."

It's a contextual argument.

True but I know we had a baseball coach a few years back that did that very thing and he got shit canned…..

 

[24and7]

Cowboy, college football is done when the high dollar folks like Paul Bryant Jr say F it I'am out. Not sure how long away that might be.

I have a feeling the “Grapes eating” video Bond put out, might not be well received by the team.. I could be wrong but people hate that “sense of entitlement” he has..The team leaders may humble him when he arrives..He has to earn his keep..

 

[24and7]

2025 J Hilson flipped from Bama to FSU according to jox..

 

[colbyjacks]

2025 Mason Short decommited after visiting Athens this past weekend.