Do you really think all of these 18-year-olds are filing their taxes properly? The IRS will be showing up at a lot of these kids' doors in the near future if I had to guess. That will escalate things quicker than anything else will.
A simple solution, though it will likely never happen, would be for the NFL to allow 18-year-olds to be draft eligible. If a player thinks that they're worth millions of dollars straight out of high school, they should be able to go play in the NFL if they want to. It would help filter out the players that are only playing college football for the sake of getting a payday and nothing else.
A car is nothing compared to throwing millions of dollars at an 18-year-old because a recruiting service said that they have really good potential. They're getting paid that kind of money without having proven anything on the field yet.
I think that legal issues will eventually derail NIL or at least cause significant regulations of it. Also, it's only a matter of time before the IRS gets involved with NIL earnings, especially since millions of dollars are involved in a lot of these NIL deals.
Part of what made college football unique compared to the NFL was that before NIL, it seemed like the players had a genuine attachment to the programs that they played for. NIL has taken that away now and has basically brought free agency into college football.
NIL is turning college into a game of the highest bidder. It's basically a watered down NFL right now. The sport will eventually lose its charm as these trends continue.
Promising people who aren't even old enough to legally buy a drink yet millions of dollars makes no sense to me. This situation further validates why I don't think it's a good idea.
Most of Dak's stats come from when the game is out of reach. When the game is close, he is no where to be found. While the defense is awful, it would be nice if Dak showed up earlier in games instead of waiting until the 4th quarter to do so.
OU was getting decent pressure on the Tennessee QB in the 1st half, which caused him to look rushed and inconsistent and even lose a fumble. I think that caused them to play it safe in the 2nd half, especially after Arnold's turnovers gave them a decent lead to work with.
Dual-threat QBs like Hawkins are much harder to defend because they tend to keep defenses honest. They were very one dimensional with Arnold in the game.
I'm glad that OU's offensive staff appears to be incompetent because if they had played that Hawkins guy earlier in the game, they very well could have won. I'm still not sure after watching that game if either Tennessee is highly overrated or OU is much better than they were thought to be. The next few games will answer that question.
I hope that they get just close enough to a shot at a playoff spot only for us to knock them out of contention at the end of the year. Texags would be crashed for days.
I could end up being wrong, but I think that Tennessee is significantly overrated. Two of the three teams they've faced so far are FCS teams. Ole Miss also runs up the score on FCS teams only to get brought back down to earth when conference play starts. I know that they beat NC State, but go and look at NC State's other two games outside of Tennessee. It wouldn't surprise me if OU gives them a scare or even outright wins.
It was really impressive how unfazed the team was playing in a massive hostile environment like that. I think that last year's win in Tuscaloosa gave the team a lot of confidence to play in such an environment.