That’s where this is headed. A base amount and
bidding wars for services. I don’t see how the NCAA
can prevent someone from getting more money in the
new era of professional college sports with rules.
Maybe put a team cap in place. Then of course you have all the under the table money stuff too.
How about converting the department of energy.
They aren’t doing anything !
The dark cloud of Title IX is slowly moving in…
The dark cloud of Title IX will be a blip on the radar compered to what the IRS will do.
The NCAA couldn’t manage an outhouse.
The NCAA manages the hoops tournament just fine. D-I football is such an odd duck it really does need to manage itself.
NIL deals will level off at some point. We’ve seen less screaming headlines about paying linemen $50k just for enrolling at X or Y. Temporary brakes put on boosters pooling dollars.
Personally I think CBS manages the tournament just fine.
There is a MAJOR DIFFERENCE between GROSS INCOME and NET INCOME . . . . . I’m thinking some geniuses don’t understand the diff . . . . .
I’m guessing you feel “room, board, books and scholly” have NO VALUE . . . . .
How many “pro athletes” are broke within years of finishing up their pro careers ? ? ? ? ?
In search of common sense ? ? ? ? ?
He could make that up by moving away from California . . . . .
yawn…not only are these takes bad and unoriginal but also boring.
Unless you’re advocating that all of big money be removed from college athletics then you’re just a curmudgeon upset that athletes that largely help make the pie are now getting a piece of it.
Agree. Bad, unoriginal, and boring takes.
Except maybe this guy:
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Coogfans Curmudgeon Founder
Eh I’ll give you one of the three but that’s pretty much it.
I would not enjoy letting facts and common sense get in the way of my opinions, either . . . . .
“A&M bought every player on their team – made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player. But I don’t know if we’re going to be able to sustain that in the future because more and more people are doing it.”
You’re guessing wrong, I think this whole situation has devalued education and everything that comes with an athletic scholarship. However if someone wants to pay you for your time to sign your name, you should be able to take advantage of that.
So will that include the women also? This gets to be a bigger mess every time someone opens their mouth…
The ncaa is corrupt and inept at best.
How did this start? Maybe with the O’Banon lawsuit?
or even much sooner when the ncaa collaborated with institutions to put Schools like U of H on probation? They started this themselves. They are the reason why the NIL is reaching these levels. They can’t have it both ways. You can’t be profiting on a player’s image without the player getting compensation. That is black and white.
They want to impose a ceiling? On what grounds is that legal?
Thankfully we live in a free society.
What is the solution to this?
Let it play out. At some point the public, paying public will see what these trophies are all about. Product market saturation happens. The media always dictate where sports go be in a university or professional setting.
This is what ncaa top man made in 2019-20.
How much do NCAA executives make?
NCAA president Mark Emmert was paid $2.9 million during the 2019-20 fiscal year despite a drop in revenue of over 50 percent, according to ESPN’s Dan Murphy. Emmert’s $2.9 million salary is a “slight increase in pay,” compared to the previous year, per ESPN.
This guy is as incompetent as his inflated salary. All of this is happening under his watch.
The way you control it is you make it like Sarbanes Oxley. Every university would have a dedicated officer to monitor contact with a recruit. If, during an audit, the officer was either negligent or dishonest then both he and the AD take the rap. Kinda like now but super-charged.
These AD’s aren’t going to give up multi-million dollar gigs for a handful of players. You start threatening show-cause on an AD and %#% gets enforced.
I would also recommend a conference audit team made up of three rotating member auditors. Full-time positions. Majority rule, appealable to the conference commissioner. This way one school can’t muscle their way around it.
But, again, the whole idea behind NIL as I understand it (and makes sense to me) is that a kid ALREADY at a university becoming famous for his performance during a particular season, gets to receive some financial endorsement money from appearances, signings, commercials, etc.
To me, it’s not for a kid coming out of high school who hasn’t shown what he can do yet at the college level. So, a transfer, yeah, if he’s already proven himself somewhere else. And, it’s them being approached for their time. It’s completely not supposed to be schools and alums offering financial contracts to play for a particular program.
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