Now THAT’s comedy!SEC, Pac-12 commissioners seek NIL help in D.C.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff met with U.S. senators on Thursday to ask for legislative help surrounding name, image and likeness policies.www.espn.com
"Kliavkoff told ESPN it's imperative to enforce rules prohibiting the use of NIL as a recruiting inducement or pay-for-play."
i wonder how much they had to pay the senators?SEC, Pac-12 commissioners seek NIL help in D.C.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff met with U.S. senators on Thursday to ask for legislative help surrounding name, image and likeness policies.
"Kliavkoff told ESPN it's imperative to enforce rules prohibiting the use of NIL as a recruiting inducement or pay-for-play."
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That's what I don't understand about the court's ruling on NIL without a period of adjustment for the NCAA to have had the opportunity to put regulations in place. It's like opening the door to a cageful of mice in a cracker factory (no pun intended).
Yeah... can you imagine a NCAA Men's Basketball strike and university lock-out? [*shudder*]
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| The NCAA is ready to start curbing the NIL frenzy, according to a great story from The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel and Nicole Auerbach this morning. Also in the story: agents laughing at the NCAA. Therein lies the brewing brawl: the old guard, the NCAA enforcement arm, against the newly legal and emboldened foe: the NIL machine. The latter looks poised to win. The gist: The NCAA will try to label the new collectives as boosters, thus subjecting them to specific rules which the NCAA will use to punish these above-the-table pay-for-play schemes. The problem? The law isn’t on the NCAA’s side. Remember last summer when the NCAA lost 9-0 in a Supreme Court case, NCAA vs. Alston, in which the entire Supreme Court agreed that the NCAA as currently constructed was on thin ice? A direct quote from justice Brett Kavanaugh: “The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.” So if the NCAA tries to levy any NIL penalties, expect lawsuits — immediately. Money is flying at a frenzied pace right now, and it’s understandable for anyone who’s been a fan of college sports to wish a pause button existed so they could catch their breath. We don’t have any pause buttons, though, and the money isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Get ready. |
Some choice gems:
" “I get it. Like, if I didn’t have to pay my employees I’d be pretty happy with things. But sadly, you actually have to play your employees. And that’s the way the world works. … When (coaches) say, ‘This isn’t supposed to be what this is about. This is supposed to be about education and mentoring young people and making them into better adults’ and all that stuff, OK, if you think this is what this is about. The doors to Division II and Division III are wide open. And coaching in high school, wide open. There’s nothing that’s stopping anyone from doing that, if that’s what you think it’s really about.
“Couple things. First of all, the reason they’re not doing it is because they don’t want to. Because they know that the players are worth more than they are. So asset allocation and money toward procuring talent is gonna be funneled differently than it is now. Right now it’s funneled to coaches and administrators for facilities and all these other things. And they know that model’s gonna change, and talent procurement is gonna take even more money, and it’s gonna take money away from other things.
Do any of these coaches feel similarly when an assistant comes in and they say, ‘Look, I’ve got an offer from another school for more money and if you can match it, great. If not, I’m gonna take this offer.’? They call that business. When a player does it, the coaches aren’t used to it. They’ve ruled with an iron fist for all this time and they’ve basically had a free ride with regard to players. They don’t have that anymore.
It took the legal system a while to catch up to fiction that the NCAA has put out all these years. But now they’re having to deal with it.
“We didn’t force them. Media rights companies don’t force these schools to play at certain times. They offer more money to play then, and they agree to it. We don’t force the coaches to do halftime interviews. It’s in the contract. We pay them money to do that, and they said ‘yes.’ And then they want to complain, ‘Well I don’t wanna do an interview at halftime.’ Well, we don’t care whether you wanna do it or not. You agreed to it, and we paid you for it. That’s sort of the way this stuff works. And somehow college sports acts like everybody’s impinging upon their rights here. And nobody is.
“If any of these schools … if Ohio State decides this is not for us, they can play in Division II or Division III and we can have the Buckeyes vs. Amherst at The Shoe for free admission and no TV. And see how Buckeye fans would like that. I don’t think they’ll like it, and I don’t think they’ll stand for it. But everybody can talk all they want to, but their actions show that they wanna participate in this multi-billion dollar entrainment industry run off their college campus, but they just don’t wanna play their employees — being the players — and that’s just not gonna work.” "
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