NCAA set to allow direct payments to athletes

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I'm glad we've successfully pushed pay for play deals back under the table just to ensure bad actors have complete and total carte blanche.

Cleveland State better watch their backs again...
 
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I could be wrong, but doesn’t the NFL benefit from some type of antitrust exemption? Seems they would almost have to with how they do their media rights and such.
The NFL wants to protect the college players.....but also wont allow them to be drafted into their league until they're a certain age or out of high school for a certain number of years.
 

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Why does it matter? We Will is a 501c, legally no different than any other non profit organization. That's ripe for a lawsuit.
I think it depends on the purpose of the collective. If it is to take booster money and funnel it to athletes as play-for-play, that’s not a valid business purpose and House intended to eliminate that. However i thought WeWill was being changed to help athletes find legitimate NIL and to educate businesses in the value of NIL. That would seem to be a more legitimate business purpose.

Ultimately this will be a matter of contract law based on the language in the House agreement.
 

cykadelic2

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"We want the schools to pay us a yearly salary.....but we're not employees".

No, you're pro athletes now.
Plenty of pros and cons for athletes having employee status vs being independent contractors as outlined in this article. This also clarifies the intent of the supposed POTUS Executive Order:

 
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"We want the schools to pay us a yearly salary.....but we're not employees".

No, you're pro athletes now.

It can be done, is in fact done in many industries, most famously the film industry. They don't have to be employees to unionize and collectively bargain.
 

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It can be done, is in fact done in many industries, most famously the film industry. They don't have to be employees to unionize and collectively bargain.
Yeah, I think threading the needle in this manner may end up best serving all impacted parties, even lawyers who are hell bent on making college athletes employees even though the vast majority of athletes don't want to be employees.
 

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It can be done, is in fact done in many industries, most famously the film industry. They don't have to be employees to unionize and collectively bargain.
I'm confused as to who isn't employees. My understanding is that they (hands, actors, filmographers, directors, craft, writers, etc.) work irregularly and may jump from employer to employer and from project to project but when they are working on a project they are employees. Who specifically are you talking about who aren't employees? Producers?

I have worked extensively with IATSE for years and I can tell you that even when we call people from the bench while they work for us they are most definitely employees.
 

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I'm confused as to who isn't employees. My understanding is that they (hands, actors, filmographers, directors, craft, writers, etc.) work irregularly and may jump from employer to employer and from project to project but when they are working on a project they are employees. Who specifically are you talking about who aren't employees? Producers?

I have worked extensively with IATSE for years and I can tell you that even when we call people from the bench while they work for us they are most definitely employees.

Almost none of them are employees of the studios ultimately paying them, though I'm sure almost all of them are employees of some sort to intermediary companies (maybe even owned by themselves)

Was it your understanding that Chris Nolan gets a w-2 from Warner Brothers each year?

Yet the studios and the various trade guilds still negotiate terms of pay and benefits
 
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