Exactly.
Let me go a point further.
Amateur sports are dead. We can all agree with this. Can we?
This question is paramont in today’s college football and…basketball.
Why am I bringing ncaa basketball into this debate?
Euro pro players are now switching to ncaa basketball. Why do you think this happening?
NIL money vs Euro pro contracts.
Every athlete NIL contract is under scrutiny?
Then how come that we are now looking at Euro pro players switching to ncaa bball for the 2025/26 season?
This ncaa/clearpricehouse (whatever the name is) allowef this contracts but on what basis?
Are you telling me an unknown Euro pro player 22/23 should be allowef into this season? Is there a huge following for a French, Croatian, Ukrainian player(s)?
Why should it be any different for football?
This ncaa “police” is full if holes.
Consider this. We all know all programs paid, have paid and pay players.
How is this so called oversight is going to stop pay to play? How?
The ncaa has protected blue blood programs for years. Why should it be any different today?
I would love to read a clear definition with…Examples. Have you noticed we have not seen any? You have examples?
Go ahead please post them. Thank you.
What will happen soon is someone will pay for some guys to go somewhere where society says they shouldn’t go and then all hell will break loose
There will be many more lawsuits for pay. However, I was reading an article on it from Harvard Law Review, and one of the end comments I found very interesting:
In fact, the district court found that the NCAA did not “establish that the challenged compensation rules . . . have any direct connection to consumer demand.”
Based on every fan board I read, I would seem that many fans from all schools are upset with the unrestricted compensation and many are dropping out. I know I have dropped all but the base level for my tickets and dropped parking (TCU has parking as a separate item). I almost dropped tickets too. It would seem that fans spending (ie consumer demand) can be impacted by the unrestricted pay of athletes (no longer student athletes IMO).
Yes but season tickets isn’t the only determinant of fan demand. Certainly an important one, though.
That is a very narrow and kind of dense response/viewpoint. No one said only season tickets. If I stop with season tickets, I am not watching on TV, but moving on to other topics of interest completely. Most of the posts I read on various forums are about having more free time on Saturdays to do other things than college football at all.
The point being that the NCAA was not competent enough to even show that there could be a correlation between fan interest and player compensation it seems from that statement in the article. Which there is when it comes to unlimited buying of players.
The SEC and Big 10 want to put the cat back in the bag.
I hope someone sues this into oblivion.
I’m not interested in college sports if we go back to uneven enforcement of bag men.
Clearing house needs to be comprised of business analysis professionals not associated with any college/university athletic program or conference.
Maybe some McCombs, Ross, Fisher alums with no connection to any athletic program.
This is all to bring the bag men back and return to the status quo.
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they’re gonna give Cleveland State another year of probation.” -Jerry Tarkanian
The Big 12 and ACC schools need to fight this.
That is why they picked Deloitte as the clearinghouse. Already decided.
Of course that does not mean a few alums there may show favoritism.
100% agree.
If there is no agreed upon enforcement body & mechanism, then the value of NIL deals seems pretty irrelevant to me…similar to the bag-men days but still out in the open. Tell me, if the NCAA ain’t enforcing anything, then who is? Likely to require some form of government intervention!