Jefferson NOT gone.

[hall4cy]

Player A (an amateur) is on a 1 year contract for $3m and plays 32+/- games

Player B (a professional) starts in the NBA for $500k, is on a 4-5 year contract, and plays 82+ games.

None of this is NIL btw.

 

[Mr Janny]

I know the NCAA is seeking an antitrust exemption with this house settlement. But is collective bargaining with employees a pre-requisite for getting an exemption? I honestly don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.

There's not an antitrust exemption attached to the House decision. That would need to come from Congress. There have been bills put forward in the past, that would grant an exemption, but none of them have gotten much traction to date. And certainly none are imminent.

 

[ClubCy]

Genuine question: did anyone truly believe that athletes were going to be paid on their actual name, image, and likeness?

I mean….it was pretty easy to see from the first hour in 2020 that it wasn’t that.

 

[syclonefan]

MLB doesn’t have a salary cap. Neither does the NBA, but they do have aprons that effectively act like a salary cap

People hate the MLB system because the Dodgers and Yankees buy every good player from the small markets.

The NBA also has limits on how much you can pay individual players based on performance AND if the player was drafted or has been with that team for a certain time period.

 

[jcyclonee]

A cowboy hat?

You are way better at noticing items on the peripherals than I am.

 

[Mr Janny]

Player A (an amateur) is on a 1 year contract for $3m and plays 32+/- games

Player B (a professional) starts in the NBA for $500k, is on a 4-5 year contract, and plays 82+ games.

None of this is NIL btw.

So what? There are no rules for what NIL is "supposed" to be. If an wants to pay me a million dollars to do absolutely nothing, that's their prerogative. The idea that pay for play is bad, is purely the NCAA's opinion on it. There's nothing legal preventing them from doing it.

 

[jcyclonee]

We used to get about $70 for a weekend road trip. Also, all the chewing tobacco you want from vendors if that was your thing. Not quite breaking the bank

I'm guessing the chewing tobacco was probably a violation of some kind.

 

[GP4ISU]

Hahahhahaha it was joke man. I knew I shouldn't have posted in a volatile thread.

In a volatile thread you gotta publicly declare it a joke at the time you say it. This is me joking with you. . Smiley faces also help.

 

[3TrueFans]

Player A (an amateur) is on a 1 year contract for $3m and plays 32+/- games

Player B (a professional) starts in the NBA for $500k, is on a 4-5 year contract, and plays 82+ games.

None of this is NIL btw.

Pretty apples and oranges comparison, Jakobi is I think obviously much more valuable to whatever college team he's on than Collin is to the Suns.

 

[fcclone]

Hahahhahaha it was joke man. I knew I shouldn't have posted in a volatile thread.

He was also joking. Go back and compare first names.

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

The Nike swoosh has a secret to tell you

You must not follow the NBA. Teams have an additional corporate logo on the top left of the jersey. This is in addition to the Nike swoosh.

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

Is this sarcasm?

Not sarcasm at all. I 100% believe it will happen in the next 3 years. I support it as well.

 

[FinalFourCy]

I agree, if that logic applies. Women's basketball, which loses millions of dollars every year and is our #1 money drain, should have been cut yesterday.

If we could, yes, please

As it is, its expense budget needs to be gutted

 

[Clonehomer]

I think it was enough. They got a monthly stipend too, albeit a small one. I would have been fine if the stipend got bumped up.

I'm also fine if we end up with a true salary cap per school. Ideally, we'd have a salary cap for each sport. And something that is affordable for at least all P5 programs.

Also, non revenue generating sports should all be cut. At least at the D1 level. The argument is that these athletes are generating millions of dollars for these schools, so they should get a bigger piece of the revenue. Therefore, athletes in sports that don't bring in revenue should be cut, or changed to non-scholarship sports, at a minimum.

So before football started making money 25 years ago or so, should college athletics not have existed? It isn’t the non-revenue sports that have changed.

 

[madguy30]

Not sarcasm at all. I 100% believe it will happen in the next 3 years. I support it as well.

Except it's already happened (Under Armor, Nike, etc. on uniforms) unless you're just talking local stuff.

I remember watching a game back in the early 90s and all of ISU's players had Reebok pumps. Awesome times haha.

Otherwise yeah, the ISU football game I went to last year had a very minor league game feel with all the promotional crap with the one lady and I can see more of that going on. I don't see that getting better.

 

[madguy30]

You are way better at noticing items on the peripherals than I am.

There was definitely nothing else (or elses) in that gif that would make me stare at the screen.

No siree.

 

[NY Chicago Fan]

NFL, NBA, MLB all have salary caps. This is the same thing. You can only afford X$ per player to field a team. All teams play by the same rules and cap to ensure a level playing field. The cap changes over time, but there are still "limits" on what a player can make.

The NBA cap for Players is a % of revenue. Makes total sense for the players to get more and more money as revenue goes up. Fans then can choose how they support the league. And All Teams have the same cap rules. Of course players like to play in big cities but it makes it possible for smaller markets to be competitive

I do not think anyone would be against the players getting a % of the revenue that their sport brings in for the school and conference. Some of it should obviously go to the school and coaches but in the old system players were being used.

They problem to having a competitive college sports landscape it seems today is rich donors can give schools big advantage even within the same conference that is sharing TV/media deals that would be main revenue source for each school, with ticket / merchandise sales I think second

 

[FinalFourCy]

So before football started making money 25 years ago or so, should college athletics not have existed? It isn’t the non-revenue sports that have changed.

We don’t fly non-revenue to Florida, WV, AZ etc? They haven’t had capital infrastructure investment from the arms race?


The non-revenues sports have changed with football. Just without the revenue to support such changes

Put the non-revenues in a local conference separate from revenue sports, on a non-revenue budget, in which costs are closer to revenue

 

[isufbcurt]

In pro sports NIL is endorsement deals, which is what NIL in college is supposed to be.

So imo comparing college NIL to pro athlete contracts and the bargaining agreements isn't the correct comparison. Because the CBA don't dictate what the pro athletes can earn from endorsements (aka NIL).

 

[NoCreativity]

Hahahhahaha it was joke man. I knew I shouldn't have posted in a volatile thread.

Mine was suppsoe to be a joke too.....you know, Minnesota Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson. I guess I could have said George Jefferson or Thomas Jefferson too.