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NCAA set to allow direct payments to athletes
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So after all this, all that's really happened is the richest schools got an extra source of $20 million to spend on players and there is absolutely no limitations on what can be spent. Great work everyone!
All P4 schools are doing this so not just the richest, this was always the outcome I just don’t know what to say to people who honestly thought differently
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This is why anyone who tries to argue against player mobility and big NIL deals in the name of "competitive balance" should be laughed at until they slink away in shame. The entire landscape of major college sports is built on a lack of competitive balance. The rich get richer and there's not a chance in hell they'd willingly agree to anything that might jeopardize their advantages.
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Your comment is premature (no shock there coming from you) based on the following from Dellenger. A golf fundraiser enabling the payment of $5M to an individual athlete from a collective fundraiser isn't now going to get approved:
"This provides collectives a path to strike deals with athletes as long as those transactions deliver to the public goods and services for a profit for the organization, such as holding athlete merchandise sales, autograph signings and athlete appearances at, for example, golf tournaments."
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Actually, there is a lot of hoopla from the legal community about wanting athletes to become employees and there is currently is no significant appetite from the athletes themselves to become employees.
I'll ignore the snark simply because I'm sure you're in shambles about 5 state AGs coming out against the SCORE Act from across the political spectrum this morning.
You're correct, one giant payment like that isn't going to fly as of today but if 20 car dealers in Austin pay a kid $50k to show up for an hour at a golf tournament, it's going to fly right through. That's with today's rules however, this thing still ends up getting thrown out in court eventually as soon as the lawyers have pulled enough cash out of it.
I think you're also going to see the 28 non power leagues that are footing the bill for this settlement get together and sue because of this change. Why are they on the the hook for paying kids that didn't even play for them when none of the agreed to rules are enforceable?
LOL, the comments from those 5 State AGs are worthless and will not have any meaningful impact. The Feds will eventually win out on this one if SCORE gets through the Senate. State NIL laws are certainly not the first laws to be superseded by the Feds.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Saves College Sports
SAVING COLLEGE SPORTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect student-athletes and collegiate athletic scholarships and
There we go, all problems instantly solved!
