Saban says Unionize players and Josh Pate murders Mike Floria’s dumb article:
I don’t 100% agree with Saban but it does look like it’s heading towards employees of the Universities with a Union.
We called those"workstudy" jobs, part of the financial aid offerings.
For me it was a lot of fun, fairly relaxed, doing economic research and learning from some high end economists & economic researchers. Definitely no 2-a-day like intensity or restriction on class load.
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I agree with something like that. As much as I am “Pro Player” I do think it’s shown to need some guardrails. That said, the NIL really hasn’t killed the advantage for the marquee programs. It still a better payday long term (CU gonna give bags of cash but make you less) to go to the historical programs.
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It will be kinda fun to see the Buffs throwing around the Benjamin’s and not seeing the results on the field. Yes, they needed a “name” for a coach. I still don’t believe it was Deon.
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About a year ago I worried that Utah athletics was not approaching NIL seriously enough. It looks like they’re getting increasingly serious. Good.
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Does this even exist in the NIL world? 
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Best practices…like lie, cheat, and steal in a way you don’t get caught; and if you do get caught you have plausible deniability? 
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Well, there are practices and there are practices. One person’s practice is another person’s cunning artifice.
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That is a great quote that I have to remember to use.
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My plebeian mind still goes to…
“If you ain’t cheating’, you ain’t tryin’; and if you get caught, you were tryin’ too hard.”
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Any time you have a major change in rules it will take some time to sort out how things will be done. I know I am in the minority here but I am happy for the athletes to have NIL opportunities. The notion that they signed away the rights to their own names and liknesses when they were still children rubbed me the wrong way.
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I’m in the same camp as you. I think NIL is a net +
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Just in from The Athletic. It was only a matter of time before Congress moved to settle down the Wild West. I’m not sure I like the idea of the federal government having such a strong regulatory role (things tend to get very complicated when that happens) but maybe that’s that way it has to be for NIL. I nominate @Ma-ake for Secretary of Intercollegiate Athletics.
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) introduced on Tuesday a long-awaited bipartisan bill regarding name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights and other college sports issues. Called the “Protecting Athletes, Schools and Sports Act,” the legislation includes the creation of a national public registry to record and track NIL deals, enhanced healthcare coverage for both current and former college athletes and strict rules regarding athletes’ usage of the transfer portal. Here’s what you need to know:
- This bill would make any state laws that include revenue sharing illegal. It would also allow the NCAA to prohibit certain types of deals, such as those with gambling companies or alcohol brands.
- The NCAA would be in charge of enforcing and investigating such rules, but it would have the support of the Federal Trade Commission, which would handle the registration of agents and collectives as well as the national public NIL deal registry. Collectives and boosters would be required to be formally affiliated with specific schools.
- The act would guarantee health insurance for sports-related injuries for uninsured student athletes for eight years following graduation from a four-year institution. That responsibility would either fall upon the school at which the athlete played and/or a newly formed trust fund taken from one percent of annual proceeds from revenue-generating collegiate tournaments, including the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and the College Football Playoff.
- Athletes would only be able to transfer and play right away after completing their first three years of academic eligibility. Exceptions to this would include a death in the player’s family or a head coach or position coach leaving the school.
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<Sarcasm.> What could go wrong </Sarcasm.>
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Two POS, especially Tommy. Many of his former players thought the same.
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Dang it, Bama, I was going to give all the regulars here positions, implement a small-town-speed-trap funding model, let 330 fly us around in a Gulfstream. (I’d be happy to “help”)
There’s so much money infused in college sports we could all become fabulously wealthy while fixing college athletics and give some of the money back to the US Treasury.
Move over tobacco lawyers, there are new heroes in town. God bless America, And, you’re welcome.
Seriously… if Tuberville wants to try to rehabilitate his reputation and something decent results… there are worse things that could happen, IMHO.
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Manchin and Tuberville…owners of the best greased palms in DC.
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I don’t care who sponsors it if it’s good legislation. Besides, it’s just starting its way through the sausage making machine. Lots of other people are going to have their fingers on this. We’ll see what comes out, if anything.
Here’s a breakdown of the various bills won’t discussed. The take-home note:
And a critical point to keep in mind: Not a single bill related to NIL in the past four years has even gone to a vote. No substantive movement has occurred on any of them.
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I’m encouraged by the energy & diversity of efforts to do something about the vacuum and unhealthy chaos that exists today.
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