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Lions Legacy Club and Success With Honor Announce Merger to Become Happy Valley United - Penn State Athletics
Penn State Athletics announced today a transformative Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) move to benefit all 800-plus student-athletes. Fresh off successful fundraising
Personally, I don't want it to benefit all 800 athletes. I would be ok with cutting half the sports.Lions Legacy Club and Success With Honor Announce Merger to Become Happy Valley United - Penn State Athletics
Penn State Athletics announced today a transformative Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) move to benefit all 800-plus student-athletes. Fresh off successful fundraising
I think it's great. Glad PSU has so many different sports. Gives athletes across the spectrum opportunities to continue in the sport they enjoy even if it doesn't end up in a professional league. It opens other opportunities for them after graduation. I believe they are just as worthy of support as the major money makers, though their NIL shares are probably much less, they should have some NIL benefit as they represent PSU.
It is a waste of resources. What is the point in flying a non revenue producing team across country to play in front of 150 fans? Athletes in Non revenue producing sports can continue the sport they enjoy vs Bucknell, Lafayette, temple, Rutgers , Pitt and Maryland. Those games would probably draw more.
i am not about cutting sports, but the objective of making sure that NIL benefits all the athletes is pretty dumb
Forget cutting half the sports, just cut the ones with a major imbalance. Namely gymnastics and swimming/diving. The rest are fine. But, in the era of NIL and the portal, we need to kill scholarships in the so-called revenue sports. You want to paid? Pay your own way. Football players are in no way deserving of 100K scholarships.
Not flawed at all. In fact, I probably have a much much better understanding than almost everyone. The athletes do not generate revenue. The University's football and basketball teams do. The athletes are irrelevant in the grand scheme.
Does basketball actually generate revenue at Penn State? Even if it does, wrestling certainly generates a lot more.
I think the biggest telephant in the room is that a female athlete’s NIL value is pretty much determined by her level of sex appeal.
All sports generate revenue. Penn State basketball does make money for the athletic department. Without trying to sort out basketball's contribution to the media rights contract, hoops brought in nearly 11 million the last (non-covid) season and didn't spend nearly that much. Wrestling almost certainly runs in the red having brought in a touch over 2 million and having a full time staff of 5 people. Five full time staffers plus all the part time staff likely cost in access of 2 million a year by itself without recruiting budgets, travel etc.
On this message board, very likely. Funny you cite Alabama, a school that doesn't care about academics, integrity, its athletes or really anything beyond winning.
Isn't winning the only thing care about now that Paterno is gone? You don't praise Franklin when he wins 11 games.
If Franklin started beating good teams on a regular basis I would praise him more. If he stopped whining about resources and took a pay cut, that would help as well. He won 10 games in a regular season four times. One of them (2019) was against the hardest schedule he has ever faced. I praised him for that. That was a good season. The other three? Not so much with last year being the softest since we joined the Big Ten. The one saving grace was backing into the Big Ten title game when we were the third best team in the division and beating Wisconsin. Two of three featured uncompetitive games against Michigan. 2022, against the schedule we played doesn't warrant praise because that is a very low bar for Penn State football. If he does that against this year's schedule where we have more than two teams that can beat us and doesn't have another uncompetitive game against Michigan, that is worthy of some praise. Not a lot. But some. Go 11 and 1 and lose a somewhat competitive game against Michigan or Ohio State, that would be worthy of praise.
Right. For you it is all about winning but even when they win you complain. You also ignore the honor and integrity.
Hardly, it is about winning the right way. Winning ten games against a softer than butter schedule is expected for a coach that makes almost 10 million a year. Losing in uncompetitive fashion is not. If he won ten games making half that and was at least somewhat competitive against Michigan, that would warrant some praise. But he doesn't and he didn't, and for all intents and purposes, got blown out by Ohio State as well once they decided to open up the game plan and take a couple of chances.
Funny how you always change the subject. You still won't deal with the topic at hand. Of course you won't deal with the fact that Hack ended his freshmen campaign as one of the best pro-style QBs in the nation, if not the best an ended his career less developed than the average top tier high schooler, under Franklin's watch. Funny how you like to move the bar.
that's not true, basketball generates a lot more and has for years
That’s the thing. Conceptually I think NIL makes sense - if you can make money from your image, the fact that you are a student athlete shouldn’t prohibit that. But I don't see any reason why some random swimmer from PSU should be getting NIL payments unless they are individually marketable in some way.
Hack was never one of the best. He was ranked near the bottom of the B10 with O'Brien. Psu fans had very low expectations of that team because of sanctions. Hack was a 7-5 QB. Hack did not transfer because he was not going to start at most schools.
