Well, the money flow is a function of media exposure, advertising and therefore viewership- eyes on the product.
But you could create a company, and giver her an NIL deal for an unlimiited amount of money.
that's a truly disturbing offer..........
This whole process of states passing NIL laws and people suggesting there needs to be federal regulation never made any sense. All of us possess the right to profit off our name, image and likeness. That right wasn’t miraculously created by a few states (initially) passing legislation. The only limitation on college athletes doing that is it was a violation of their eligibility under NCAA rules. This was entirely an NCAA issue that they could have regulated in any way their member institutions saw fit, at any time. The fact that the NCAA demurred really eviscerates any enforcement of amateur status whatsoever by them, in my opinion. At this point the member institutions ought to create a new regulating body to administer Olympic sports and other non-revenue championships as well as basketball. They don’t need to pay for the NCAA’s historically arbitrary enforcement group to do that, and they certainly don’t need to pay Emmert a multi-million dollar salary. Take that money and dump it back into administering championships, or, just give it back to the member institutions.
When the American League had its own rules slightly different than the National league, they had a rule called “travesty of the game.” If an umpire felt something wasn’t right or ethical he could correct it.
Nah. A GoFundMe will do.
Yes, it is entertainment, and so we get to support what we like and to not support what we dont like. And many of us like competitive games/conferences/tournaments and dislike the prospect of that going away because some teams/colleges/universities have supporters who will happily pay to make their teams dominant. So calling for some regulations that might maintain a "level playing field" is an effort to keep the entertainment entertaining in the way we like. (An analogy might be anti-trust laws that prohibit certain business practices because they harm the interests of customers/consumers.) I dont know what is the best way to accomplish the goal at hand, but the current status quo doesn't hold much promise, IMO.
Even the pro leagues have regulations in play for competitive balance. There are the salary caps, otherwise the richest teams could simply always buy the best players. There are rules and boundaries to play within.
Correct. Self-imposed regulations. The government doesn't set salary caps or determine draft order to maintain competitive balance in pro sports leagues. The universities already have an SRO - the NCAA. The member institutions have decided they want the wild wild west system. You might not like it, but you're just an outside observer that gets no say other than to continue watching or not.
Rule 7:08i was put in place by Baseball in 1911, after a player with the Washington Senators named Germany Schaefer stole 2nd base, trying to draw a throw from the catcher so a teammate on 3rd base could try to score. When the catcher did not throw down to second base, on the next pitch, Schaefer proceeded to steal first base. He was not the first player to do so, but he was the last as MLB subsequently passed Rule 7:08i (travesty of the game), the sole provision of which was that a player was deemed to be out if they ran the bases in reverse order.
If you want something messed up really bad, let the Federal Government (any party, any administration) do it. That's why it must be done federally, the NCAA as a group had their chance at damage to College sports, now let the professionals in DC show you how it can really be done.
