amusing and entertaining comedy from you, my collective fellow BYU fans. Most of you are all around conservative, even fiscally conservative (nothing wrong with that.) Those of you knowledgeable in finance often share about debt in college sports, ROI, BYU being in the black, and so on.

It amuses me when I hear people complaining that a couple 18 year olds aren’t living up to the money being spent on them… it makes me laugh. Wouldn’t investing millions in a teenager who has literally never done the very thing he’s now getting paid for meet every criteria for a foolish, risky, poor ROI spending venture? Some fans are complaining the guys aren’t deserving of the money. NIL donors should have thought of that before they forked it up, that’s on them.

And the idea that this money is somehow supposed to make them better is amusing to me. As if they still aren’t limited by NCAA rules, class attendance, no practicing on Sundays, etc?

I got into it in another thread about these being “professional” players. Again, as if getting paid to do something means you should suddenly become an advanced practitioner of whatever it is you’re doing. I’ll call them professional as soon as the NCAA says they don’t have to go to any class and can train for basketball all day every day.

Anyway my point is this whole thing is amusing. These are still BYU students. NCAA athletes. I’m not going to bag on them for not suddenly becoming LeBron James just because a few dollars appear in their bank accounts.