House settlement approved
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Now that money issue has settled can a suit be far off challenging the four year eligibility rule. Can NCÀA arbitrarily cap a players ability to earn mone by limiting how long they can play? Stay tuned as College sports enter Never-Never Land
What does that mean? Does a school that opts out need to contribute to the $2.8 billion in back pay or whatever it is?
The new NU AD has already said very clearly that we will be fully funding the $20.5M. At an event I was at. We won’t be opting out. Go Cats.
I have no idea what is possible, but the NBA and NFL both have age limit rules. Could colleges do something like that as an upper limit?
Only if they engage in collective bargaining, as do the NBA and NFL. Which would mean Unionization.
Many other sports leagues that don't have unionization or player compensation have age restrictions. Not all of them are for children, too, like U19 leagues. So I could see a path here. IMO they need an age cap on top of the eligibility cap asap, 29 year old TEs at Miami who have had a half dozen years of medical waivers and 23 year old European pro basketball players as college freshmen is a little silly. It can even be something like 25 years old, but it's something.
Amen. Al Bundy never asked for money when he scored four touchdowns in one half. Sure, it may have been high school, and he had a lucrative career thereafter. But still.
Death wish? Didn’t UChicago make a similar decision after being a conference member for 50 years?
I would say staying in is more likely a death wish as NU is not going to make it to the end of this game of musical chairs and could be putting its tax-exempt status at risk under this administration.
Are you being intentionally obtuse? I was referring to the athletic program, as this is a football board.
And UChicago dropped to D3 in 1973, when the financial situation was absurdly different.
No school with the intention of staying in the B1G would ever opt out. And NU has no interest in leaving the B1G.
I think schools not named Ohio State, Michigan, USC, and Oregon are in the fight of their lives over the next ~5 years (maybe less!) to remain in the P2 (whatever it’s called next…) when the next round of power consolidation takes place.
Teams will be leaving the Big Ten whether they have interest or not (or rather, they’ll remain in whatever is left of the Big Ten, while a new super league forms with the most valuable products in the NCAA).
I was referring to the University, of which the athletic program is but a part…
…was but a part? Perhaps you are correct that one cannot anymore conceive of Northwestern University without its revenue-generating athletic program.
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