Missouri football coach making $6 million blasts NIL

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Most coaches are very unserious about NIL, and this is another example.

If the introduction of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) into college football has taught me one thing, it’s that most college football coaches and institutions are very unserious people. Most of the time they’re creating a boogeyman about how much players are making and how it’s ruining the sport, while conveniently leaving out many major facts that would help.

Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz is in Destin, FL for the SEC meetings, and while at the meetings, he had a lot to say about NIL.

Oh boy, here we go again.

The entire premise against NIL was that these student-athletes would be making more money from third-party groups, not even directly from the university. However, this money they’re making would make them (/gasp) not broke college students, something nobody on Earth wants, right?

Drinkwitz also left out some very, very convenient details in his quote.

Pediatricians do save lives, and for that he should be paid more. HOWEVER, Eli Drinkwitz conveniently left out how much HE makes, which is…

$6 million.

Maybe he can help his brother-in-law out you know, spot him a few dollars because he’s got all the money apparently.

Drinkwitz did go on Twitter and post the full quote of what he said, which does help him out a bit.

Drinkwitz is right about bad actors trying to make a dollar off NIL in the CFB world and the legislation of NIL being a problem. However, the student-athletes shouldn’t be the ones punished for that. The NCAA had YEARS to come up with a plan for an inevitable conclusion, but sat in court trying to block it.

Drinkwitz honestly could’ve just said the back half of the quote and it would be perfectly fine, but here we are. Talking about pediatrician salaries and how much Eli Drinkwitz makes.

There’s also this:

Good times in Destin.