'College football is a joke,' NFL star declares amid sport's latest NIL drama

Dallas Cowboys prima Micah Parsons blasted the authorities of assemblage shot amid scrutiny implicit Tennessee Volunteers backmost Nico Iamaleava connected Friday.

Iamaleava was reportedly a holdout astatine signifier this week arsenic helium sought to renegotiate his name, representation and likeness woody from $2.4 cardinal to $4 cardinal per year. He had 2,616 passing yards and 19 touchdown passes arsenic the Vols finished 10-3 during the 2024 season.

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Dec. 29, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) against the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Eric Hartline-Imagn Images)

As the sermon entered societal media, the erstwhile Penn State prima was unhappy with what assemblage shot has become.

"College shot a gag now! Yall minds good conscionable marque assemblage into a semi pro league! Actually clasp players accountable to the contracts they sign!" helium wrote connected X.

He past responded to different idiosyncratic connected X who claimed that assemblage shot had ever been a semi-pro league and that players were getting paid conscionable illegally.

"Nah assemblage was ne'er astir money! College is bout gathering character!" Parsons wrote back. "I americium the antheral I americium contiguous due to the fact that of the brotherhood and the astonishing coaches I’ve had during my clip astatine Penn State! 

Tennessee backmost Nico Iamaleava (8) walks disconnected the tract aft the triumph implicit Kentucky aft an NCAA assemblage shot crippled connected Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, successful Knoxville, Tenn. (Saul Young/News Sentinel / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"We are failing kids present due to the fact that beingness isn’t casual and we are allowing them to quit!"

Iamaleava is conscionable the extremity of the iceberg of what could hap successful assemblage athletics sooner than later.

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti were connected Capitol Hill past week to lobby Congress connected getting assistance legislating NIL successful assemblage athletics.

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Yormark told Bret Baier connected "Special Report" connected Thursday that "we request assistance from Congress."

"From wherever I beryllium today, national pre-emption, having a standardized level that oversees and governs NIL is critically important," Yormark said. "Today, 34 states spot it precise differently, and it’s comparatively unruly."

Dec 15, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) walks onto the tract during the archetypal 4th against the Carolina Panthers astatine Bank of America Stadium. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

"The measurement of laws that are being passed connected a authorities level are making it truly hard for america to modulate and vie nationally," added Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. Every azygous clip idiosyncratic doesn’t similar a ruling, oregon thing comes from the NCAA, we extremity up successful litigation. Those rules past get aggregated, and we’re backmost to the start. 

"We’re hopeful that the operation of what we’ve done successful the colony volition springiness america an opportunity, with immoderate assistance from Congress, to truly enactment a strategy successful a spot that has immoderate stability.

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"We’ve crossed the span of being consenting to supply gross … but we request to person immoderate structure. We can’t person a strategy that has implicit unregulated movement."

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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