MI one step closer to being the leader and best in college-athlete NIL rights
Yesterday, the Michigan House Oversight Committee heard testimony on HB 5217 and 5218 - which grant college-athletes the right to benefit from their name, image, and likeness without loosing eligibility - sponsored by Representatives Brandt Iden and Joe Tate.
Here's a link to the video of that testimony
Both bills passed and are now headed to the House Ways and Means Committee.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:07 PM ^
I agree eligibility should be a little looser. I think transferring and being able to play right away is the way it's going to go. However that can become fraught with people working behind the scenes to essentially recruit guys from other schools. The one year off was basically a way to prevent some of that. Anyway, glad to see Michigan at the forefront.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:12 PM ^
Still think the best way to go about transfers would be the ability to transfer without sitting out a year after your third season or if the head coach leaves/is fired prior to that you may transfer without sitting out a year.
If you transfer prior to your third season, current rules apply.
January 24th, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Yeah I don't mind that, seems fair. Gives the athlete 3 seasons to work into the starting lineup.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:11 PM ^
5* players will still need to be developed throughout their time at Michigan. On top of that, you need a coach(es) who want to utilize their talents and exploit mismatches.
Michigan does neither of that.
So great, Michigan pays players to be underutilized. What's the difference between what we have right now?
January 24th, 2020 at 7:29 PM ^
Just off the top of my head Dax Hill, Zach Charbonnet, Jabrill Peppers, Chris Hinton, DPJ, & Rashan Gary are all guys that either contributed early and/or developed. Just because DPJ & Gary didn't live up to their recruiting profiles doesn't mean the coaches suck.
January 25th, 2020 at 6:29 AM ^
Some black kids get some of the fuck-ton of money involved with this sport instead of the same old white people. Pretty simplified and some will call it racist outlook on the matter, but I'm not far off!
January 24th, 2020 at 1:13 PM ^
Here they come with banners flying, HURRAH!
January 24th, 2020 at 1:49 PM ^
Just remember: there are no “solutions,” there are only tradeoffs.
And tradeoffs usually involve unintended and unforeseen consequences.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:51 PM ^
There are solutions.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
It starts with killing the NCAA
January 24th, 2020 at 4:31 PM ^
with a baseball bat
January 24th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
From Merriam Webster
Solution: an answer to a problem
Nothing stops a solution from also being a tradeoff.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
That’s great and all, but I disagree with Brian and the rest of the people that feel NIL rights will somehow help propel Michigan towards being an ‘elite’ football program.
January 24th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
If we utilized the talent we had to the fullest and those kids were out there just slaying it with effort then I might feel differently but for now I've gotta agree with you.
We might recruit a little better but you're still going to end up with a bunch of underdeveloped players running nonsensical schemes.
January 24th, 2020 at 2:14 PM ^
Agree/disagree.
Will we now be an assured playoff team? No.
Is one more competitive disadvantage of our recruiting now less of a disadvantage? Yes.
Does that mean we are able to get 1-2 more Jerry Jeudy type players to the right team and tip it over the edge? Remains to be seen
January 24th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
I think a bigger issue is player development. Our elite recruits don't play to the same level that other teams' elite recruits do.
I don't know why that is.
January 25th, 2020 at 12:01 AM ^
True, Michigan won’t be OK with grease ball car dealerships paying kids $5,000 per commercial
January 27th, 2020 at 7:50 AM ^
The problem at Michigan is that we are being outworked by OSU in recruiting. It's not about cheating.
January 24th, 2020 at 2:43 PM ^
Michigan isnt the only school with a big name. Other schools that have big names already pay players, michigan is to late to the party.
January 24th, 2020 at 4:33 PM ^
What does this even mean? This is wrong in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin.
January 24th, 2020 at 3:10 PM ^
While I don't think any of us want to create a new intercollegiate athletic Wild West, the corruption associated with bagmen is: 1) pervasive; 2) an approach that will *never* be permitted by the University of Michigan (and rightly so); and 3) in desperate need of an alternative.
It's the creation and promotion of an alternative where I believe U-M can play a huge role, and undermine unscrupulous institutions (hi, Columbus!). What if, for instance, each NCAA member institution simply offered each scholarship athlete some combination of scholarship and living expenses, AND additional compensation reflective of the revenue they help to generate for the institution? Yes, for some 4/5-star athletes, that could amount to several hundred thousand dollars per year, per athlete.
It would completely upend the entire notion of "amateur athletics," but let's not kid ourselves. The best athletes are already getting paid under the table in wads of cash; smaller, less financially-viable programs probably aren't going to slide any further from relevancy than they already are; and it would put those institutions who actually care about following some set of rules back on something like a level playing field.
Alternatively, just abandon the NCAA altogether. It's not like they serve a useful purpose anymore if they're being willfully blind to rampant cheating by the member institutions.
January 24th, 2020 at 4:52 PM ^
"AND additional compensation reflective of the revenue they help to generate for the institution?"
No, no, no. This will result in additional (beyond what they tack on every year already) tuition increases for the non-athlete students.
January 24th, 2020 at 7:25 PM ^
Raising tuition for non-athletes? Maybe and maybe not. If an Athletic Dept is financially independent from the academic side of the institution, as it is with Michigan, there should be a minimal impact, if any.
Right now, the money being given to recruits is completely under the table. Unless Michigan decides it wants to play that game, the only alternative is to create a system that works to the strengths and available resources of schools like ours. There are very few SEC schools, for example, that can go toe-to-toe with Michigan when it comes to the ability to marshal financial resources.
It’s also not a benefit that every athlete will get, even in the same sport, because the amount would also be based on 1) results on the field, and 2) how in-demand they are as recruits. Does anyone seriously believe that a 3-star nobody in the SEC is getting the same six-figure handshake (and other bagmen-provided benefits) as a 5-star does?
January 24th, 2020 at 10:20 PM ^
I'm sympathetic. But I'm also a realist. Football and basketball have always been the revenue sports. While scholarships should still be offered in other sports in as great a number as we do now, athletes who excel at the former are being offered suitcases of cash, cars, no-show jobs, no-show class schedules, etc., in order to play for championships. The only rule now seems to be that programs that cheat, win; and the NCAA is apparently unwilling to sacrifice the dollars in order to enforce the rules if your school can bring eyeballs to television screens.
January 24th, 2020 at 3:13 PM ^
How is being like the fifth state to do it being the leader?
January 24th, 2020 at 3:16 PM ^
It's supposed to be effective on July 1, 2020, which would make Michigan the first state to have its NIL rights law become effective.
January 24th, 2020 at 5:00 PM ^
Michigan: where we pay our best college athletes before we give Flint clean water.
Michigan.
January 24th, 2020 at 6:16 PM ^
So we will have one less excuse after we don’t win the big ten
January 24th, 2020 at 7:19 PM ^
I think the NCAA changes this rule nationally for the start of the 2020 season, but anything that forces their hand is a good thing.
January 25th, 2020 at 12:45 AM ^
When I was a college student and decided to focus more on sports, life became a nightmare because it was really hard to pay enough attention to sports and to academic tasks at first. I couldn't imagine my life without uk essays at the time.