07-24-2024, 06:16 PM
How many girls in high school will now consider devoting their time and energy to softball knowing it's possible to earn a $1.2 million payday? I think this is good for Canady and also for the sport of softball, though only time will tell the full story.
It's also arguably another data point that Stanford is neither really striving to be relevant to the competitive peak of college athletics nor living out any kind of principled pathway that has athletics in the "proper" (really, we're talking about traditional) place in the college experience. Stanford's NIL collective was simply outbid. Far, far outbid, from the sound of it.
These are ridiculous times for college sports, but Stanford athletics also has ridiculously poor leadership. Did anyone else see Taylor at the ACC media event talk about how he had to broach the topic of starting up an NIL collective? So many have been completely asleep at the wheel. On the other end of things, I've not heard anyone associated with Stanford try to be the "adult in the room" and start up public conversatons about the endgame of all this upheaval and what is most important to preserve about college athletics.
I cannot say I am proud to be a Stanford fan these days, but I still root for Stanford athletes chasing their dreams while attending classes on campus. At least that still happens, right?
It's also arguably another data point that Stanford is neither really striving to be relevant to the competitive peak of college athletics nor living out any kind of principled pathway that has athletics in the "proper" (really, we're talking about traditional) place in the college experience. Stanford's NIL collective was simply outbid. Far, far outbid, from the sound of it.
These are ridiculous times for college sports, but Stanford athletics also has ridiculously poor leadership. Did anyone else see Taylor at the ACC media event talk about how he had to broach the topic of starting up an NIL collective? So many have been completely asleep at the wheel. On the other end of things, I've not heard anyone associated with Stanford try to be the "adult in the room" and start up public conversatons about the endgame of all this upheaval and what is most important to preserve about college athletics.
I cannot say I am proud to be a Stanford fan these days, but I still root for Stanford athletes chasing their dreams while attending classes on campus. At least that still happens, right?