NCAA Is Starting to Probe Third Party NIL Deals
Watch how fast the NCAA can move when kids start to get theirs.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:01 PM ^
Nothing to see here!
January 16th, 2022 at 4:01 AM ^
The NCAA is in place to punish any Big Ten or Pac 12 programs that get out of line.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:08 PM ^
What is the toothless NCAA going to do to University o Oregon? Send them a sternly written letter?
January 15th, 2022 at 1:27 PM ^
Punish Western Oregon.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
It's always Cleveland State
January 15th, 2022 at 2:05 PM ^
'memba when FSU stood for Free Shoes University?
I 'memba!
January 15th, 2022 at 3:12 PM ^
It got so bad their QB had to steal crab legs to survive.
January 15th, 2022 at 7:31 PM ^
If there's anything fishy going on with NIL, Oregon is definitely the worst perpetrator in this. I'm sure of it. They shouldn't even bother looking at any SEC teams. We all know they're clean.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:14 PM ^
I used to defend the NCAA because most people never understood how they were formed, what governing powers they had and didn't have....but screw em....they are an absolute disaster. They haven't gotten a single thing right in a long, LONG, time. It is time for that organization to be abolished. A completely new organization needs to be develop with a completely different model.
It is probably too late to salvage much of what made college sports so awesome, but under the current guidance (and I'm including the school's Athletic Departments and Administrative leadership in this) it is going to fail to a point it may no longer exist.
January 15th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
The NCAA, and the august body of university presidents that set and enforce fiscal and ethical policy there, have mastered one skill: The Money Grab.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:16 PM ^
if the NCAA wants to get destroyed by the Supreme Court they are welcome to do so!
January 15th, 2022 at 1:24 PM ^
For the love of God... Talk about a total lack of self-awareness. The NCAA should be abolished and Mark Emmert should be forever banned from ever having anything to do with athletics.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:29 PM ^
Double secret probation
January 15th, 2022 at 1:34 PM ^
So many organizations are trying so hard to remain relevant in 2022. It is just adorable.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:36 PM ^
Anytime the NCAA calls...
"New phone who dis?"
-"It's the NCAA...we'd like to inqu"....
"No we're good on that thanks...and we're probably going to block this number so don't call back."
January 15th, 2022 at 1:36 PM ^
REMAIN CALM. ALL IS WELL.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:37 PM ^
prediction: the legal/medical marijuana business is on financial booster rockets that will make it a big player in more fields than we can imagine. just wait until some 5* or even a whole team is, instead of the 'nikki and ira harris stupid coaching name head coach', you have these kids hawking the latest in cannabis products and getting paid big time. call them the 'cloud nine flower power player of the week' or some such thing.
"you know, after a big game when i've been pounding linebackers play after play, i really enjoy the calm and pain relief i get from _________ , the super flower oil you can't live without. pick some up today at the __________ dispensary, located on state street" (or something like that).
and when the NCAA, the ultimate toothless and blind tiger, tries to step in and stop it there'll be a sherman anti-trust suit filed faster than a denard 40 yd dash.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:58 PM ^
You're a goddamn genius XM. I'm about to get my patent lawyer on the phone and slap a patent on it.
January 15th, 2022 at 2:06 PM ^
Tangential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gCt1rUEpE
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Conspiracy time: Somewhere in the south (probably in some high-end Atlanta hotel) SEC operatives are meeting. They're trying to find a way to make NIL efforts from other conferences illegal. Otherwise, how would they preserve their advantages?
January 16th, 2022 at 12:28 PM ^
Birmingham, not Atlanta
January 15th, 2022 at 3:12 PM ^
i thought i was your patent lawyer! really, trademark might be the more applicable IP idea on this one. but go ahead and run with it, just cut me in for some of the vig when you hit it big.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
We're both men of the law, you know? We get after it, you know, we jab a jaw, we go tit for tat, we have our little differences, but at the end of the day you win some, I win some, and there's a mutual respect left over between us.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:32 PM ^
that's funny.
incidentally, how are you feeling? the other day you said you were feeling like crud. hoping that has passed.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:48 PM ^
I feel fine. Little bit of a cough.
It was weird, I felt like I had been hit by a bus for about 36 hours, then it just disappeared.
Idk if its the vax or its omicron being weaker or a combination of the two.
Either way I'm thankful that it all worked out.
January 15th, 2022 at 4:14 PM ^
Get on this! Most of the Michigan cannabis industry is Chaldean owned and operated and they arent going to funnel any money into college football. So make a move my guy!
January 15th, 2022 at 2:10 PM ^
You did mean "staee street", right?
January 15th, 2022 at 1:46 PM ^
The core issue in each of these arrangements is the NCAA’s interim guidance that NIL money going to athletes cannot amount to pay-for-play or “impermissible inducements.”
I just don't see any way that the NCAA can separate 'pay-for-play' or 'impermissible inducements' from NIL. In the pre-NIL days, Texas' boosters paying all linemen $50,000/year (in return for minimal 'charity' appearances) would obviously qualify as impermissible benefits. But as far as I know the NCAA has no ability to limit such practices now. And any recruit knows that if they sign with UT they will also be getting at least $50k/year. This is certainly an 'inducement' to sign with UT, but impermissible? I don't know how.
I think the only way that the NCAA can enforce a policy against 'impermissible inducements' is by investigating under the table deals during the recruiting process that will be made public once a recruit signs with a school. But this is exactly what they couldn't/wouldn't do in the pre-NIL days (at least when it came to certain schools), so why should we expect that they'd do it now?
January 15th, 2022 at 1:48 PM ^
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube...if the NCAA pushes the issue the Power 5 Football programs will just exist the NCAA and begin their own organization.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
That's cute.
January 15th, 2022 at 1:56 PM ^
Breaking news: Arsonists to probe why there are so many fires.
January 15th, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^
This just makes me shake my head and chuckle. What a joke.
[EDITED to remove comment already made upthread...]
January 15th, 2022 at 2:27 PM ^
Ncaa, let’s investigate 3rd party NIL
Also NCAA: ATM nil coordination directly with boosters and recruiting…. Nothing to see here
Ncaa did you send that letter to Oregon about Phil Knight yet, we don’t want NIL being coordinated and tied to recruiting via 3rd party…
January 15th, 2022 at 2:44 PM ^
This is clearly terrible news for North Texas State and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
January 15th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
With all due disrespect intended, fuck the NCAA. They’ve made probably billions of dollars off of these kids busting their asses. Now that the kids can profit off of their hard work it’s an issue? Go to hell.
January 15th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
Yes, since the ncaa has done such a great job in investigating illicit payments thus far.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:02 PM ^
That horse they are looking for left the barn a loooooonnnnnggggg time ago...
January 15th, 2022 at 3:06 PM ^
No schools will get in any trouble for this because of the current gray area of NIL, so Michigan missed its opportunity to go big in the beginning before rules are put in place.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:14 PM ^
People keep saying this will get regulated. How? The NCAA has no jurisdiction here as most of this is state law and I can't see the state jumping in and capping payments.
January 15th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
The NCAA didn’t think this out clearly before changing rules and allowing athletes to make money of NIL.
What should have been made clear was separation of all Universities from NIL and any NCAA Logos, any Booster that signs an NIL deal with an athlete must submit the deal to the NCAA. That NO booster can be involved with NIL and perspective recruits or the school and all records must be provided including all contact with the athlete.
Not to mention very harsh punishments towards schools, scholarships and very lengthy bans for breaking these rules. All in place before passing. The NCAA did none of this. The cat is out of the bag.
We know Texas A&M openly coordinated recruiting and players, even assigning a booster to a recruit. If this isn’t breaching NIL deals, not sure what is.
Oregon, Osu, USC, Alabama, Georgia and many many more have openly met with their boosters/alumni to form NIL plans regarding it’s players and recruits. Phil Knight, Les Wexner, and others have been quite involved. Didn’t touch what aTm did buying the #1 class.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:20 PM ^
i can't justify making another thread about this, but there is some joy to spread today. my second favorite school, northwestern, went to east lansing today and beat sparty 64-62. go cats!
couches are on yellow alert.
January 15th, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
Absolutely nothing will come of an NCAA look see. The NCAA is no longer relevant with Power 5 football…haven’t been for decades.
January 15th, 2022 at 4:09 PM ^
Hahaha. Right, like you’re going to do anything. Everyone is laughing at all of you suits.
Those idiots won’t do shit, because they can’t do shit.
just hang up on them
January 15th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
I can't help but think this is connected to Kirby Smart and Nick Saban's call for regulation of NIL. The purpose of that, of course, is to make sure the deck is stacked so Kirby Smart and Nick Saban benefit, at the expense of those not named Kirby Smart and Nick Saban.
I suspect the NCAA's efforts will be futile. They'll gesture, and wave their arms. But the genie is out of the bottle; Pandora's box has been opened.
January 15th, 2022 at 4:31 PM ^
When Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St and Nebraska start signing top ten classes each and are taking kids out of the south, then you will see this get regulated!
January 15th, 2022 at 7:56 PM ^
I thought we just did sign a Top 10 class without buying recruits.
January 15th, 2022 at 5:17 PM ^
Wasn't it an Oregon player who recently criticized the ess eee see for not playing school or something?
Interesting timing.
January 15th, 2022 at 5:56 PM ^
And what exactly will the NCAA be investigating? What is still against "the rules"? They should go after PEDs. WADA and the Olympic movement might be able to provide some technical assistance.
January 15th, 2022 at 7:24 PM ^
Impotence is a serious and humiliating medical condition. We need stop mocking the NCAA and have more empathy for their condition.