Some of us are old enough to remember when a free tattoo made you the scapegoat of your sports program. That means we’re old enough to see that college athletes are getting free tattoos as part of their NIL deals.
Eleven years after former Ohio State star defender Terrelle Pryor, banned from the program all because he made some money on the side Free autographs and tattoosMississippi State’s spacious receiver, Jordan Mosley is ready to make history by being First NIL athlete with a tattoo deal, when he signed a contract with famous tattoo artist Vin Vega. Apparently, Vega will get an endorsement from Mosley, which will result in some “professional” artwork.
“I don’t currently have any dealings with any other college athletes,” Vega told SI. “But I’m sure that after this one, they’ll start piling up.”
This is the part where I remind you that in 2011, Pryor was suspended for 5 games in the NFL due to some “free tattoos”.
All very stupid.
“I believe it is a fair conclusion that he knowingly took steps to ensure that he would be declared ineligible to continue playing in college and would be able to enter the NFL through through the draft supplement,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said at the time in a news release about what had led to Pryor’s suspension from the profession from some of the non-criminal work he had done in college. “Overall, I find this behavior tantamount to deliberately manipulating our eligibility rules in a way that distorts the fundamentals and questions the integrity of our eligibility.” those rules.”
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Instead of playing his senior year at Ohio State, Pryor decided he was done with the drama and left school. He was eventually drafted in the third round of the supplemental draft, but only after Goodell approved it because he was originally not going to be allowed to enter.
“In my judgment, allowing players to secure their own ineligibility for college play in order to avoid previously determined disciplinary consequences for admitted conduct reflects poorly not on college football — which acted to discipline the transgressor — but on the NFL, by making it into a sanctuary where a player cannot only avoid the consequences of his conduct, but be paid for doing so,” Goodell said on the matter.
Look how far we’ve come.
“I’ve always liked tattoos and I’ve always wanted tattoos. Everyone knows about the whole Terrelle Pryor thing where at the time, NIL wasn’t a thing,” Mosley said to SI. “So he’s in a bit of trouble for that. For me, I think this is a step in the right direction for NIL transactions because there is so much that can be gained from this. “
On the other hand, it’s great to see how college athletes can get opportunities like this through NIL – even though they’re still not getting paid the money they deserve from their schools and conferences through deals. translate this billion-dollar media rights. But on the other hand, it’s appealing to the likes of Terrelle Pryor, Chris Webber and the Fab Five, and others who are finding school okay with what once made them black sheep.
If athletic directors were smart, they would welcome their former greats back to campus with open arms and apologise. But who am I kidding, this is a system built on exploitation and unpaid work – that will never happen. On Thursday morning, Big Ten announced a seven-year deal with Fox, CBS and NBC worth more than 7 billion dollars.
