Judge grants injunction barring NCAA from enforcing its NIL rules
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:41 PM ^
NCAA is a losing machine
February 23rd, 2024 at 6:40 PM ^
The NCAA won't exist by 2030
February 23rd, 2024 at 7:40 PM ^
If it takes that long
February 23rd, 2024 at 9:01 PM ^
Most likely neither will the "student athlete"
February 24th, 2024 at 1:19 AM ^
Other than Olympic sports does the term “student athlete” even apply anymore? CFB and CBB athletes are professionals now.
February 24th, 2024 at 10:46 AM ^
Sounds transformational to me.
February 23rd, 2024 at 6:55 PM ^
ha except when facing Michigan. We help them win regularly
February 23rd, 2024 at 10:19 PM ^
The NCAA rulebook must be three words long: "Screw with Michigan." That's all they seem to accomplish.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:41 PM ^
Judge from Tennessee issues ruling favoring University of Tennessee. Film at 11.
The house of cards is splattered all over the floor. The Wild West just got a little wilder.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:45 PM ^
So it's now the Wild Wild West? Would you say it's closer to the Will Smith, Robert Conrad or Kool Moe Dee version?
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:23 PM ^
Neither. It's definitely this one.
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
That's about as Western as a band from London gets. It's was a catchy song though.
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:40 PM ^
We had the 45 when I was a kid. I had no idea what they were saying, but I danced to it nonstop.
February 24th, 2024 at 10:12 AM ^
Brings back memories of dancing around the living room as a kid and making the record skip and raising my father's already high blood pressure. Good times.
February 24th, 2024 at 8:12 AM ^
This is a band that saw the "mirror" effect in video and decided to make it the whole hook to their video. I guess that was cool when you're "headed for the 90's." I did like the song back in the day though.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:46 PM ^
Fire up the money cannon, Warde!
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:51 PM ^
He’s still stuck on his transformational values. I don’t think this will change his approach to anything.
February 23rd, 2024 at 6:40 PM ^
Didn't we JUST hire a general manager for NIL, like last week? That certainly seems like a change of approach to me, given that the position didn't exist previously.
February 23rd, 2024 at 8:46 PM ^
Based upon the timing of the creation of the NIL GM position relative to other schools swan dives into the pool makes the hire look less than enthusiastic!
February 23rd, 2024 at 10:27 PM ^
Its my understanding that Michigan wants someone else to make their NIL payments, fans, local business ect.
The top NIL schools are raising donor funds or taking recruits/portal right to donors houses (FSU did this) and sitting recruits down. These schools are probably still offering regular NIL or Michigan NIL to the non superstars.
I mean we just had 3, 5-star QB's come out of the state of Michigan during a 40-3 stretch that ended in a national title and we are having to chose from a couple of middling 3 stars, a walkon, & a true freshman. This is the biggest indictment on our NIL.
February 24th, 2024 at 12:15 PM ^
Dante Moore & Bryce Underwood are the 2 in-state 5-star QBs we missed out on that come to mind-- who is the 3rd one you're referring to? CJ Carr? If it's CJ you're referring to, it seemed like personal factors contributed to him choosing Notre Dame over Michigan (and in any case, I think we're better off with Jaydn Davis in this class)
In any case, I think it's simplistic to blame NIL for Michigan's underwhelming recruiting classes the last 2 years. I mean, it's obviously a factor, but I also have to believe Harbaugh's dalliance with the NFL & the uncertainty about Michigan's future coaching situation the last 2 years have played a big role too. Also, when it comes to QB, the fact that Michigan employs such a run-heavy offense and is clearly reluctant to use QB runs also plays a role in limiting our QB recruiting.
February 25th, 2024 at 7:25 AM ^
You win with people. A coach adapts to the ability of their roster and what the defense gives. There is no schematic advantage at LSU. It is about the dollar bills and relationships.
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:42 PM ^
Need to clear the dud stuck in the breach first.
February 23rd, 2024 at 7:55 PM ^
Firing up the money cannon would take effort, and it’s Warde, so…
February 24th, 2024 at 12:06 AM ^
No shit. At what point does Michigan just embrace NIL as it is. If the NCAA can't enforce it, Michigan should treat their players as professional athletes. It's not like the Lions don't pay Hutchinson millions of dollars because they want a transformational player.
February 24th, 2024 at 1:46 AM ^
Let's not kid ourselves, the amount of money a top kid gets in NIL is transformational. We no longer have to pretend that players should be above that.
February 24th, 2024 at 6:28 AM ^
Maybe when it isn't illegal under state of Michigan law.
February 24th, 2024 at 5:24 AM ^
He will make it rain at the Sveden haus
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:46 PM ^
I probably haven’t been following this as closely as I should.
I believe this means we no longer have to pretend collectives function as something other than pay for play (or pay for work, as Brian prefers), correct?
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:50 PM ^
The ruling barred the NCAA from "enforcing its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation from being used to recruit athletes..."
So correct, it can now be used as a "we'll pay you $X if you join our team..." type of enticement. Which of course was already going on just in a wink, wink, nudge, nudge way.
February 24th, 2024 at 8:20 AM ^
Were we actually doing that though? I thought that was the problem with Michigan, that we weren't willing to 'pay for play'. Or do you mean just in general?
Either way, this is good news for college sports, fuck the NCAA.
February 24th, 2024 at 9:27 AM ^
All collectives, including ours, are pay for play. The distinction the NCAA tried to make with Tennessee is what UT called out as patently absurd.
Would our collectives pay non-athletes or athletes at other schools? No. They will only pay you if you play a varsity sport at Michigan.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:48 PM ^
You all know the little shit at schools they dont like is all they have left now? So this is a win in a way that Bama lost a ton of blue chip recruits was a win.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:56 PM ^
I can't believe this us the organization we caved in to.
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:09 PM ^
Technically, we caved into the Big Ten. Or, are you talking about another time we caved in? It’s hard to keep track.
February 23rd, 2024 at 7:23 PM ^
We didn't suspend Jim for three games in September for shits and giggles.
February 23rd, 2024 at 8:40 PM ^
Just for shits and giggles, tell me where the fuck the saying shits and giggles comes from. Who was the original shit giggler?
February 24th, 2024 at 1:36 AM ^
I think it should be, "Who is the giggle shitter?"
February 23rd, 2024 at 8:52 PM ^
Michigan caved to the ncaa in the 1st 3 game suspension.
Pettyti caved to the other B10 schools, led by osu's private detectives, in the 2nd suspension. And Michigan caved to Pettyti in dropping their request to block the suspension.
February 23rd, 2024 at 10:35 PM ^
You remember that Michigan offered 4, and the NCAA said that wasn’t enough, right? Weird definition of caving.
February 23rd, 2024 at 4:56 PM ^
We must be the only school where the local judge won't give us a favorable ruling in NCAA matters.
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:04 PM ^
Its worse, dude. Our local judge was educated at, and currently teaches at, Michigan. And we still couldn't get a favorable ruling...
February 23rd, 2024 at 6:45 PM ^
It’s actually even worse than that . . . It isn’t that we didn’t get a favorable ruling, it’s that we dropped the entire request (so there was nothing for a judge to rule on). On a podcast Craig said that the judge was favorably disposed to granting the TRO, but we’ll never know one way or the other now
February 23rd, 2024 at 7:24 PM ^
ITS EVEN WORSE, WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
February 23rd, 2024 at 7:49 PM ^
Craig is talking out of his ass. Maybe the judge was or wasn’t but no one knows.
February 24th, 2024 at 9:55 AM ^
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
We're too good for our own good.
February 23rd, 2024 at 10:34 PM ^
That was against the B1G
February 23rd, 2024 at 5:01 PM ^
While this is another blow for the NCAA, what it also means is that until another governing body comes in to take its place and establish some sort of baseline for rules / regulations (contracts, salary caps, etc.) it just means the Wild West is going to get even more wild.
The ridiculousness of NIL is going to get worse before it gets better. Probably a lot worse.