Absolutely. Let it ride out, there is no need for the government to get involved. Do I hate it, absolutely. Will the government taking control make me like it better? Not a chance.
If the judicial branch counts as "the government" then the government is already involved. The question is whether the NCAA has the clout and authority to enforce any kind of standards regarding eligibility, NIL, salary caps, etc., and the argument is that the NCAA (and/or conferences) will have a hard time enforcing "rules" unless they become law.
The NCAA is a private club. They are in this mess because they didn’t enforce their own rules.
Because they didn't change their rules with the times to be able to withstand court challenges.
That‘s not true for NIL. They could follow their rules all they wanted, they were still violating anti-trust laws. Now, the eligibility suits do boil down to consistently following their own rules.
I'm with you except for this. This limits opportunities for younger people.
Put a salary cap on the players (whatever it takes to get there) and if a school is found to be giving money under the table - your program is shut down for 2 years. SMU this thing. You have to make the penalties so severe and actually follow through.
So the exact same situation we’ve been operating under for the 100 years prior to legalized NIL? Salary cap was $0. What’s the difference in saying salary cap of $10mil? You think boosters will all of a sudden follow rules?
Maybe the NCAA could regain its teeth if it places paid compliance officials on every college campus. I know I’m throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks. But allowing the schools and conferences to police themselves is like having the Mexican Cartels guard the border!
You see this? You have to make the penalties so severe and actually follow through.
Senators' salaries are a tiny fraction of what D1 football players make. I don't think that moves the needle much.
Everyone saw what happened to the Clippers for trying to circumvent the salary cap. That is the type of teeth any association will need to get any control over all of this. I think you have to esentially become a professional league and have collective barganing for that to happen. The players will have to get the same opportunity to negotiate / advocate for themeslves as the coaches do.
Try to judge the merits of an idea rather than focusing only on the D or R behind their name.
How do you get around the time limits of college football (5 years) in a collective bargaining situation?
The reason players' compensation is capped is that the value is brought by the university. Nobody wants to pay to watch minor league athletics outside of a university setting. So it is defensible to have a law capping compensation to allow public universities (and therefore private ones, as you can't really separate them even if you don't believe the positive externality arguments justify the same preferential treatment as being publicly owned). But if you cap player compensation, schools will compete on other measures. One way is by coaching compensation. The other way is by a facilities and amenities arms race. So if you cap player compensation, you should cap coaching salary and other expenses also. A reasonable solution would be to have a statute carving out an exception from antitrust for amateur athleticism, but require that it actually be enforced. Any violations of amateurism results in the school losing its tax exempt status for the year in which the violations occurred and for some period thereafter. The people that are invovled in the violations would be personally liable for the tax deficit for the year in which the violations occurred. That should come with some cap on athletics expenditures, with the excess going back to the school for educational purposes. That would be practically self enforcing, and the administrative headache would be figuring out how to set the cap on spending in a way that makes sense across areas with different costs of living and also probably making some recognition that schools sports generating a lot of money should get nicer things.
That would be great but it's pretty clear it's not enforceable as a practical matter. There's no reliable way to distinguish between when an athlete is getting paid for NIL because it makes business sense versus it just being a booster wanting to throw some money their way.
Allowing student athletes to compete in sports for as long as they are students would limit opportunities for younger people, but only those who arent good enough. That last part is important.
Yes, you see this, “how is that any different that what we’ve had”. The severe penalty has always been an option. You proposed the exact same situation we’ve always had, albeit with a higher threshold for what’s considered “cheating”.
Depends upon how you define "reliable." No system is perfect, but examining every deal is necessary. The CSC is using Deloitte to determine FMV for the NIL licenses. Its the same system the pro leagues use, and its very effective.
The problem has always been that the schools don't actually want the rules strictly enforced. Probably to placate their donors.
There probably is no justification for it, in theory. But like I said, the amateur thing is about the only thing the administrators and commissioners are united about. And I really do not think any of us want a professional league. While there hasn't really been a decline thus far, if they break the levee of amateurism/professionalism, I do believe a sharp decline in interest in college athletics will absolutely happen.
Agreed. Player who has maxed out their cap and is getting $5 million per year or whatever.
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