I don't think the schools directly profited, but the NCAA did. Madden had to pay theNCAA for player images used in the games and ads for games. Jadaveon Clowney never received a nickle for his garnet and clad college NIL image used in the numerous ads and video games. I have no clue how much, if any, trickled down to SCar from the NCAA treasury. I doubt any was left after administrative costs.
NCAA as a monopolist lost control of the narrative, then the process and finally the product.
The NCAA has “allowed” nothing. The Supreme Court forced them to stop being a monopoly that can control individual “labor prices.” They have no ability to control how individual player NIL - Paige, Caitlin, the Cavinders can do with shoe companies, or Bose, or Gatoraid- or even a bench player paid by a local used car lot. Players are free can to do what they want individually.
What Supreme Court case are you referring to? I have no problem with NIL and the original design of it. I have a problem with large athletic slush funds as a result of rich alumni contributions that, combined with the transfer portal, will be the end of college sports as you know it. The money is only going to get bigger, the corruption only bigger, and soon you are going to have wholesale legalized purchase of high school players if you don't have that already. As for the NCAA monitoring South Carolina's minimum wage, you are not serious are you?
It will be in High School sports very soon. You will see a kid play football for one HS this Friday night then next Friday play for the team that just beat them and the kid won’t even have to move. Middle School kids will get NIL deals. As soon as parents start suing the States it will happen.
National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Alston, 594 US 2147 (2021).
Absolutely. The bureaucracy and leadership of the NCAA have been myopic, obstructionist, and focused really on a misguided effort to retain the status quo.
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I disagree.
First of all, that case doesn't say what you think it does. It occurred after the NIL rules was adopted and only involved the regulations the NCAA adopted pursuant to it. Secondly, what about the U. of Miami booster who gave 10 million to the men's and women's basketball teams? What about the boosters all over the country who gave money to the various NIL funds? To say that only commercial sponsors and merchandise sales funds are going into these funds cannot possibly be true. I will test the proposition myself. I will send $ to a random college athletic NIL fund and see if it is returned.
In New Jersey, you can't transfer for athletic benefit only. There are often "hardship" applications and issues about residency for athletes for public schools. Often, you will hear of student/athletes living with their coaches.
The NCAA has sanctioned Miami for it’s booster’s activities.
There's increasing momentum to address the abusive monopoly power of the NCAA. The extent to which that momentum has been successful I think is debatable. That said the transfer portal, NIL, an ongoing lawsuits do suggest increasing opposition and opposition to the NCAA.
The SEC is continuously reviewing the possibility of withdrawing from the NCAA. Of course football and money it generates are the primary conference concerns. I would imagine the BIG Ten is considering withdrawal too It perhaps not as strongly or as vocally. If the two mega conferences both withdraw, the NCAA wild sumoly bbecome irrelevant.
Women's basketball just doesn't need the NCAA anymore. With money coming in legally, the raison d'etre of the NCAA, to keep money out, is gone. It's fighting a battle it's already lost.
The NCAA opened the barn doors and then decided they wanted to regulate how fast the horses run out.
None of the athletes who are forced to enroll in college prior to a professional career need the NCAA. I'd go a step farther and say no athlete in college needs the NCAA as whatever mission the bureaucrats of the NCAA articulate they fail to achieve and fail miserably.
Once again, the case which I just read in full didn't break the monopoly and force compensation. It held that their current methods of restricting and dictating compensation which they previously adopted were in restraint of trade. This case came after compensation was allowed. It also invalidated the NCAA's policy of not allowing graduate education to be offered to induce an athlete to attend which tells you everything about the NCAA. The problem is that once you combine the compensation window called NIL with the transfer portal, you are basically allowing solicitation and a form of corruption. You will also see the emergence of super conferences and the death of parity. "I'll get you $500,000.00 if you come here", whether spoken by a coach in violation of the rules or a booster or a friend of a friend of a player invites veniality.
Does SC publish the amount it pays to athletes to come there from the transfer portal? Wouldn't that be truly transparent as opposed to just letting the NCAA monitor that they spend money from merchandise sales and commercial sponsors? So a booster's million dollars can't be spent but a "commercial sponsor's" can? Who are the SC commercial sponsors? Is a list available? This is all subterfuge. It's buying players and will be the demise of college sports.
Not openly, athletes start playing for a public HS as a freshman has a good year next season playing for a private or parochial school. Bob Hurley SR at ST Anthony's had players brought in from all over the NY metropolitan area for example.
Yes he did. Several New York City players, same was true for St. Patrick's under Kevin Boyle.
In Arizona players at the high school level can transfer public to public, public to private, private to public or to the emerging phenomenon of sports schools.
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When New Jersey had Bob Hurley Sr. at St Anthony and Kevin Boyle at St. pat's the winner of that game was almost always #1 in New Jersey and sometimes #1 in the country. When St. Pat's was #1 and had Kid Gilcrist and St. Anthony was #2 and has Abdel Anderson, they played in the State semis. I saw the game. St. Anthony won on an incredible out of bounds play by Hurley. and went on to be #1 in the USA.In Arizona players at the high school level can transfer public to public, public to private, private to public or to the emerging phenomenon of sports schools.
While it's primarily football and basketball it does happen with all sports at least here in Arizona.
For example the number one ranked quarterback in the 2024 class who just decommitted from Ohio State may be on his third high school. While the article below indicates as a junior he played for Chandler High School I believe he's transferred to Pinnacle for his senior year.
QB Dylan Raiola, No. 1 recruit in '24, decommits from Ohio State
Five-star quarterback prospect Dylan Raiola, the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2024, has decommitted from Ohio State.www.espn.com
Best of the best: Ranking the Arizona HS boys basketball prep academies
It's hard to call one team No. 1 and another No. 2 in Arizona when both are among the top 10 teams in the nation.
It's hard to call one team No. 1 and another No. 2 in Arizona when both are among the top 10 teams in the nation.
But that's what Arizona has gotten itself into with the rapid growth of boys prep basketball academies as it has broken through big on the national scene
SCar pays wbb players 25,000 per year. No signing bonuses for transfers. PERIOD. That money comes from a share of merchandising player jerseys, posters, programs with players photos, team photo ops etc. - all transparent.
This isn't about NIL money. Don't try to change the conversation. I made it clear that I had no problem with a player benefitting from NIL which was long overdue. The issue I have is the transfer "bonuses" or enrollment "bonuses" disguised as NIL. They are not stated to be transfer bonuses but if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck.... If you don't think that is happening full fledged in college basketball right now you are dreaming. Do you think the transferring members of the NC championship team from LSU went there for the coach or the "love of the game"? The transfer portal/ NIL two punch combination is the issue and it will never be made transparent unless there is a scandal just like "Sneakergate". If a player in the portal starts talking NIL money, the coach or assistant says I can't have this conversation but soon thereafter a "friend of the program" makes a call to that player and there is a large NIL payment promised upon transfer. That's the soft underbelly of the system now. We welcomed outside money into the amateur athletic structure. With money comes venality. Commercial or improperly labelled booster money becomes the price paid for a transfer. The NCAA will do zero about it. They can't even train and choose competent referees.
I did not change the conversation. My first statement clearly stated: " SCar pays wbb players 25,000 per year. No signing bonuses for transfers. PERIOD." I then discussed the transparency of our $25,000 NIL collective.
). So, did a Southeastern school only have a shot at that Cali prospect only because of her agent? Perhaps Jade Li can offer transferees private NIL opportunities.
