Mississippi Changes NIL Law to Allow Schools to be Part of the Process
And in completely unrelated news, the Ole Miss athletic department recently became an unnamed partner in four local car dealerships, two strip clubs, and a tattoo parlor.
Only 2 strip clubs?
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:37 PM ^
Oxford is a pretty small town.
Athletes should be able to enter into contracts whenever they want, and Mississippi has nothing to say about it. Now if they are saying the Miss public schools can negotiate on their behalf once they've given a verbal that's something entirely different.
I think you're missing the point. So now, according to Mississippi law, if a kid "verbals" to any college in Mississippi that school can negotiate at NIL deal for him or her. This is the thing that has kept schools from putting business directly in contact with recruits. I guess it's a good way to lockdown the state of Miss.
You sir have nailed the crux of the argument that dismantled my hesitation about paying student athletes. What we have here, however is an attempt to take that right away from the college athlete, or in this case Junior in high school kid who has verbally committed, and place it with the state? University? This feels like taking an individual right away from a kid. Fuck that, fuck the SEC and Fuck the NCAA. Let’s raise up, grab another beer, plop on the couch and scratch our balls.
And this post alienates pretty much everyone. If you can do better, I’d love to see it
Let the lane train start chugging
I'm not quite sure how much this changes the equation for a lot of recruits. It lets then get into NIL deals with Ole Miss and Miss. St. schools earlier if they stay committed but that language about how it might invalidate eligiblity seems more legalese than binding. I've not read the law so I may be off but since there isn't a national NIL law being deemed "ineligible" for signing an NIL contract in Miss. doesn't really mean anything to other states or the NCAA. I guess the sponsor in Mississippi would have a cause of action for breaking the contract in the event a kid decommitted but that seems unlikely due to the legal hassle and the bad press of suing a kid for going elsewhere.
And if the law really does try to lock recruits to Miss. schools I could see a chilling effect in which recruits don't take advantage of this right if/when they verbally commit to Miss schools and instead use it as a bit of a bargaining chip with other schools as a sort of "floor" for negotiations.
I do think all of these various slapdash state laws points to the need for a national rule about NIL, so I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't what happens in a year or two.
Money Train Lane is going to start dominating at Ole Miss.
April 22nd, 2022 at 10:45 PM ^
We can hate all we want but it's no longer cheating. We want Michigan to win and this is the way to get the players we need... Ethical or not
April 22nd, 2022 at 11:04 PM ^
The unethical part of the equation is the NCAA, a school, or anyone else who wants to prevent someone from getting paid when someone wants to pay them for being good at whatever it is they do. I have zero problem with Mississippi and Kentucky clearing a better path for kids to cash in.
Once something has been approved by the government, it’s no longer immoral.
April 23rd, 2022 at 12:46 AM ^
NIL has been and is even more of a joke. This shit needs to be regulated or this shit is going to continue to be inconsistently reinforced from state to state
It was already completely unenforced anywhere this just makes it more transparent. Any regulation you try and add will result in exactly the same problem where some schools get away with more and some are at a disadvantage
NIL isn't the joke, its the loopholes that have turned it into pay for play.
Hugh Freeze was just a man ahead of him time. The world just wasn't ready for his message
April 23rd, 2022 at 11:26 AM ^
pay the players