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By jbrown_9999 · Posted
We're all guilty of enabling the football players in making money. I'm not logging in every day to see how Notre Dame's debate team's recruiting is going. But football is a different story and others with same interest but more disposable income are funding NIL deals. -
By jbrown_9999 · Posted
Btw, my wife has let me know that's she going to be rooting for the Irish to punt a lot this season... -
By irishwavend · Posted
The players are getting paid because there is a market that wants to see success on the field. Because that market watches, advertisers pay a lot of money to be seen while that market watches. In return, that advertising money comes back to the school in the form of millions of dollars in various ways. Paying for better players means even more value for advertisers and more money for Notre Dame to build buildings or fund programs. The average student who goes to Notre Dame doesn’t generate millions of dollars for the school. If they decide not to go there, someone else will fill the spot so they can have access to the excellent education funded by the football program and its players. I don’t see why the university would pay students to come (except for the absolute brightest) when supply and demand is in Notre Dame’s favor in a big way. The alums are part of the market that wants results on the field so their money goes towards those results which in turn increases value for Notre Dame, too. Paying kids to come doesn’t have much benefit to those alums either… I get what’s being said about working hard to pay for your kid to go to college, but there are just too many folks in the same boat while a big source of revenue for schools is football…the value of the school increases if football thrives. It’s simple business, unfortunately, and ordinary students are the consumer. Nobody pays consumers if they want to stay in business.
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