NC State Star Tommy White Will Transfer

I hate the way NIL works. Pro sports have more rules than this.

Thirty years of nut punches

We can't have nice things. I bet ncaa screwing us over had something to do with it too.

**** him and adios. NCAA needs to fix this **** they've created

poexcuse said:

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My concern about Pack of Wolves is the design of organization. It seems to be democratic in that they want to spread money around for lots athletes in a variety of sports. That is good and I'm personally invested in IPS's NIL effort. But when it comes to athletes (Tommy Tanks) with national marketing potential I have questions about it's effectiveness. Those are the exception but they are a critical exception for our program. Tommy can go to a variety of national sponsors with his brand unlike anyone at NCSU (maybe T Smith & Devin Leary). I know this is offensive but when you depend lots of small sponsors, it's bake sale mentality. Tommy hits home runs both on the field and off. His move makes sense. He got offered national sponsorship dollars somewhere.

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To add some details, His agent didn't want to work with the collective. Tommy gets national deals because of his "brand". He isn't leveraging NIL through collectives.

POW offered him a competitive NIL package previously. I'd be highly skeptical if any collective out there influenced the decision since he'd be getting a pay day here just as he would elsewhere.

The product of college sports keeps getting weaker and weaker. If you want to have professional athletes in college that's fine but there is a reason the pros have contracts and other similar rules. This is just nuts.

Anyone who could not see the chaos and destruction of amateur athletics that NIL was bound to create was willfully blind. This thing is maybe a year old and it is proving to be as corrupting of college sports as I predicted.

Most people were open to college athletes getting more than tuition, room and board. Players thought they were bringing money to the sport and should be participating. I felt colleges were providing the platform to showcase their skills they would otherwise lack the ability to do on their own.

My gut says college sports has opened Pandora's Box from which it may not survive.

843's Dad - (Lowcountry)

Man, this baseball team has taken gut punch after gut punch after gut punch

I guess its cool players are getting paid. But a lot of us will end up caring less and less. If anyone here has a breakout year in any sport, instead of getting excited about the future we will just wonder how long we have em…

Another nail in the coffin of me caring anything about college sports. The NIL and transfer portal have destroyed the model and then the NCAA screw jobs we have gotten the last 12 months have just been too much.

I said the other day that I think this coming football season may be my last. I have been a Devin Leary fan since he committed and knew he would be great and I am planning on staying for his last season, but if things continue to process as they have, that may not happen and I could be done before then.

I don't know the circumstances with Tommy White but it really is a shame it's come to this. If he wanted to play more in the field, then he should have caught the ball and thrown it better. He had chances to show what he could do.