Hello everyone. My name is Seamus Johnston and I am a current graduate student and lacrosse player at Salisbury University. It is my intention with this blog to discuss interesting topics that surround the collegiate and professional sports worlds. These topics may range from interesting sports stories and the ever-changing landscape of NIL deals, to the progress of collegiate athletics and everything in between.
NIL vs. Scholarships: What Should Future Athletes Prioritize?
The surge of NIL deals in the past two years have monumentally changed the landscape of collegiate sports forever. NIL deals have new video games, television shows documenting the day to day of collegiate athletes and have given the top athletics in each sport the change to becoming millionaires without stepping foot on professional field. It seems great! A chance for these athletes to receive financial compensation for their hard work and dedication to their sports. But what about scholarships? Nick Saban, the greatest college football coach of all time, attributed the addition of NIL's as the reason he stepped away from coaching. Saban stated that recruits would continually ask how much he could pay them through the NIL Pipeline . It is from stories like this that the question has to be raised. What is more advantageous for college athletes, NIL deals or college scholarships? I understand this is a loaded question. Different sports have different opportunities. For i...
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