Lionel Messi’s deal with Inter Miami includes an ownership stake he’s expected to exercise after he’s done playing for the club. Mario Lemieux was an owner-player in the NHL from 2000 to 2005. George Halas not only owned the Chicago Bears, but coached and played for them during the 1920s. Pro baseball players owned their teams during the nineteenth century. Could Caleb Williams …
As someone else mentioned the last time something about this was posted, even if he COULD in theory be given an ownership stake by the team that drafts him, wtf happens when and if he gets traded or cut and signs with another team? Seems like a huge conflict of interest.
And I admittedly don’t watch college ball much at all, but it seems to me that 95% of these “generational” players tend to be “a player from this generation” at best.
I’m getting a vibe from him and his dad that they’re akin to…was it Haskins dad who basically monetized his sons career for his own gain?
They both see dollar signs all the way to 10+ zeros, and something tells me that’s not gonna happen.