College Football is the ONLY sport in the U.S. where pro/rel would work, and makes too much sense for it to be even considered.
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Contract Law has to be the piece that reins this in a bit.
Good on the Huskies and Bulldogs for litigating their cases.
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Relegation!
okay I don’t know crap about Soccer but that’s what it’s called right? I did watch some of that Welcome to Wrexham show 
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Before NIL the NCAA would never allow schools to do things like this. NIL gives players the opportunity. Good for the ladies at Clemson.
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The Jaden Rashada Circus has left town.
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Stewart Mandel’s latest piece at the Athletic is hilarious. He imagines how DJT’s Save College Sports get-together may go. He has the voices of several characters in this drama with made-up quotes that are funny, but still not very far from what the person has actually said. This has the effect of driving home the point how ridiculous college sports is now.
The is a section that is especially impactful which I bring to you below.
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Pro golfer Tiger Woods: “Hello, everyone. I have no idea why I’m here, either, but I did major in economics at Stanford, and I think I’ve identified the underlying problem: See, you’re operating a multibillion-dollar commercial enterprise while still maintaining a monopsonistic labor market. You keep trying to suppress the athletes’ wages to well below MRP, because you say you need the surplus profit to fund the cross country team, but then you turn around and spend most of the delta on your own salaries.
“You took a step toward rebalancing that dynamic with the advent of revenue-sharing, but there’s still a lot of cognitive dissonance in insisting those contracts are merely licensing agreements for their NIL rights, when we all know they’re pay-for-play deals. But of course, when Duke’s quarterback breaks the contract early to transfer to Miami, then you insist that the agreement bound him to the school like a pro player to his franchise.
“You’ve created a hybridized economy where the tension between treating the athletes as commercial assets while still insisting they’re merely ‘student-athletes’ cannot be sustained in a healthy and meaningful way.”
(Blank stares throughout the room.).
Private equity executive Gerry Cardinale: “I think he’s trying to say you need to admit the athletes are employees.”
Every university president and/or chancellor in attendance: “Absolutely not! If athletes are considered employees, then they could be terminated like employees, which of course never, ever happens now. Why would any of them want that?”
1993 Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward: “Good question. Maybe we could ask some of them?”
(Rabid laughter throughout the room.)
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