Ohio State wasn’t able to fork over 1.8 million for this high schooler!

[Titanium999]

Kid going to Georgia! Pony up the dough!

Ohio State missed out 5-star recruit as college football NIL arms race heats up: report

The new NIL rules in college football have already completely changed the landscape of the sport over the last few years as for the first time, players are able

www.si.com

 

[FeralFelidae]

The NFL, an actual professional league, has something called a salary cap to maintain fairness among the teams.

How can something like a salary cap ever be enforced when NCAA players aren't being paid by their schools/teams, but by third parties?

 

[cattul]

Plus you now get a pyramidal draft. An opportunity to play/earn at one of the powerhouses is the dream of many. So the select few biggest spenders get the first picks.

Then any available choices filter down the football spending food chain, until the catfish programs hoover up those who reach the earnings floor.

Are we a catfish program?

 

[bjm989]

The college game is/will be ruined by this failure, unless some proper guide rails are put in place. Also…Rome.

 

[NUCat320]

The college game is/will be ruined by this failure, unless some proper guide rails are put in place. Also…Rome.

It’s almost like the NCAA had a quarter-century to figure out a plan that made sense and instead chose covering its eyes, singing ‘doo wa diddy (diddy dum diddy do)’, opening its eyes to shout ‘student athlete’, facilitating child rape, getting angry about tattoos, and returning to its hole.

May I add: The fall of SI.com is tragic. A half-century of groundbreaking writing and photography has been reduced to another godforsaken content mill. Just awful to see the URL given to ‘FanNation’ shite coverage.

 

[Eurocat]

This wasn't the NCAA, this was the US Supreme Court.

Business of Football: The Supreme Court Sends a Message to the NCAA

It's rare for sports cases to reach the highest court in the land, but a unanimous decision is a harbinger of much larger industry changes to come.

www.si.com

 

[FeralFelidae]

This wasn't the NCAA, this was the US Supreme Court.

Business of Football: The Supreme Court Sends a Message to the NCAA

It's rare for sports cases to reach the highest court in the land, but a unanimous decision is a harbinger of much larger industry changes to come.

www.si.com

The Supreme Court did not rule on NIL. They ruled on universities paying players for education-related expenses beyond their scholarship.

After this ruling, because some states like California had passed NIL laws, the NCAA just threw up their hands and decided not to fight it anymore.

 

[Sheffielder]

The Supreme Court did not rule on NIL. They ruled on universities paying players for education-related expenses beyond their scholarship.

After this ruling, because some states like California had passed NIL laws, the NCAA just threw up their hands and decided not to fight it anymore.

If the NCAA hadn't assumed they had absolute power in this conversation and basically refused to budge an inch, then perhaps players and their advocates wouldn't have sought government intervention that got us to where we are today. NCAA had many avenues to phase this in and off *something.* They failed, magnificently.

But...it's funny because we demonize the NCAA - it is a member-driven organization. This is Northwestern's fault as much as Ohio State's or Georgia's or anyone's.

 

[FeralFelidae]

If the NCAA hadn't assumed they had absolute power in this conversation and basically refused to budge an inch, then perhaps players and their advocates wouldn't have sought government intervention that got us to where we are today. NCAA had many avenues to phase this in and off *something.* They failed, magnificently.

But...it's funny because we demonize the NCAA - it is a member-driven organization. This is Northwestern's fault as much as Ohio State's or Georgia's or anyone's.

But there had been some change. The cost-of-living stipends were a recent development and I'm sure more change would have come without blowing up the system.

 

[BosCat]

Soon to be former Gov of MA riding to the rescue as next Pres of NCAA.....

Charlie Baker will become the next NCAA president in 2023​

Link: BakerNCAA

 

[Catreporter]

How do you put the genie back in the bottle? This thing has gone off the rails. Boosters are basically buying players and it's all legal. They should retroactively give the Heisman back to Reggie Bush.

 

[Dugan15]

My comments, which many will disagree with:

1) What if the romanticized version we think of college sports was, for all the time, wrong? A way for adults to make money on a product without paying labor.

Or, if you must, the price of labor was an education. Fixed, and not responsive to the market. An “education” that over the last 40 years has been devalued by the amount of time required to be an athlete on campus. (Please try not to use the inaccurate and cynical “student-athlete” framing.”

2) The reality is, Evan Pederson, Walker Lambiotte, Ed Sutter, Darnell Autry, Hudhaifa Ismael, Pat Fitzgerald, Damien Anderson, Tyrell Sutton, Keegan Kennedy, Corey Wootton, John Shurna, virtually every quarterback of this century, Justin Jackson and Evan Hull (among hundreds of others) have brought me great joy over these long years. I NEVER should have been forbidden from giving them $5 or $5,000 after a game. No one should care a whit about who lets Reggie Bush’s mom live rent free.

I don’t disagree that my beloved NU will suffer in this new world order. I just can’t re-cross the Rubicon to suggest that “amateurism” is, or ever was the correct model.

Go ‘Cats!

 

[High Hopes Cat]

Soon to be former Gov of MA riding to the rescue as next Pres of NCAA.....

Charlie Baker will become the next NCAA president in 2023​

Link: BakerNCAA

He’s a Kellogg alum, and his wife is NU undergrad. they've been at a couple Boston NU events over the years. Impressive guy. taking on a tough gig though to say the least.

 

[FeralFelidae]

My comments, which many will disagree with:

1) What if the romanticized version we think of college sports was, for all the time, wrong? A way for adults to make money on a product without paying labor.

Or, if you must, the price of labor was an education. Fixed, and not responsive to the market. An “education” that over the last 40 years has been devalued by the amount of time required to be an athlete on campus. (Please try not to use the inaccurate and cynical “student-athlete” framing.”

2) The reality is, Evan Pederson, Walker Lambiotte, Ed Sutter, Darnell Autry, Hudhaifa Ismael, Pat Fitzgerald, Damien Anderson, Tyrell Sutton, Keegan Kennedy, Corey Wootton, John Shurna, virtually every quarterback of this century, Justin Jackson and Evan Hull (among hundreds of others) have brought me great joy over these long years. I NEVER should have been forbidden from giving them $5 or $5,000 after a game. No one should care a whit about who lets Reggie Bush’s mom live rent free.

I don’t disagree that my beloved NU will suffer in this new world order. I just can’t re-cross the Rubicon to suggest that “amateurism” is, or ever was the correct model.

Go ‘Cats!

Wish there was a "disagree" reaction.

I would've played football for an NU degree.

 

[Hungry Jack]

My comments, which many will disagree with:

1) What if the romanticized version we think of college sports was, for all the time, wrong? A way for adults to make money on a product without paying labor.

Or, if you must, the price of labor was an education. Fixed, and not responsive to the market. An “education” that over the last 40 years has been devalued by the amount of time required to be an athlete on campus. (Please try not to use the inaccurate and cynical “student-athlete” framing.”

2) The reality is, Evan Pederson, Walker Lambiotte, Ed Sutter, Darnell Autry, Hudhaifa Ismael, Pat Fitzgerald, Damien Anderson, Tyrell Sutton, Keegan Kennedy, Corey Wootton, John Shurna, virtually every quarterback of this century, Justin Jackson and Evan Hull (among hundreds of others) have brought me great joy over these long years. I NEVER should have been forbidden from giving them $5 or $5,000 after a game. No one should care a whit about who lets Reggie Bush’s mom live rent free.

I don’t disagree that my beloved NU will suffer in this new world order. I just can’t re-cross the Rubicon to suggest that “amateurism” is, or ever was the correct model.

Go ‘Cats!

No argument with this. The media revenue associated with football and hoops says it all. It’s professional sport.

 

[FeralFelidae]

No argument with this. The media revenue associated with football and hoops says it all. It’s professional sport.

They subsidize the non-revenue sports. See WestCoastWildcat's thread that talks about smaller schools like San Diego struggling to make ends meet with Title IX. All these schools are providing scholarship opportunities for young women, and the money for this comes from the revenue sports.

Okay, yes, at the SEC and Big 10, they rake in a bazillion dollars for football. Maybe those conferences should spin off and form their own actual professional league, and the rest of the schools can perform their academic mission, providing scholarship opportunities in all sports.

Or maybe, the media partners should contribute to a "pay the athletes" fund, and every football player at an FBS school receives an equal share from this fund so that all the players get paid equally. I've said before, when it comes to compensation for athletes at academic institutions, I'm a communist. If the main freaking point isn't to provide educational opportunities (in both revenue and non-revenue sports), then I don't understand why academic institutions should remain in this business. If we care about fairness in the sport, this situation we have with 3rd-party boosters bribing players to their favorite teams is a farce.