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He has played quite a few downs by mocopdx

Enough to be ranked the #1 recruit in the country and earn a scholarship to one of the best programs in the country. If he doesn’t pan out then he at least will get a nice paycheck to compensate his hard work up until this point. Worst case scenario, a marketing company will be out $1.4MM and maybe they’ll reconsider giving deals this early in the process.

I don’t see how it’s any different than a player getting a shoe deal when they get drafted in the NBA without playing a game yet. CFB hasn’t been amateur athletics in decades, and there’s really no (realistic) way to reverse it. It feels a helluva better to see the kids getting some of this money instead of commissioners and coaches.

A lot of people have very little faith in 18-22 year olds to be responsible. I do hope the schools ensure that they help guide their players who are getting these larger paydays. The NFL has seen success ever since they addressed the issues they had with financial irresponsibility among their players. It should be easy to translate this to the 0.1% of CFB players who get anything more than a few thousand dollars from NIL.