NCAA hands out first ever NIL ruling
February 27th, 2023 at 12:25 PM ^
Lol. Of course it’s a women’s basketball team
February 27th, 2023 at 6:26 PM ^
I'm actually surprised it was a D1 program. I would have assumed the NCAA would target Kalamazoo or NMU or something.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:25 PM ^
This reminds me of when we KNOW Alabama has been cheating and people joke that the Western Alabama School for the Blind actually gets punished.
ALLLLLLLL the cheating going on with NIL and they go after these two?
#NCAAIsAJoke
February 27th, 2023 at 12:50 PM ^
You gotta know that Cristobal is doing the exact same thing, but absolutely no chance the NCAA says anything about him.
February 27th, 2023 at 3:01 PM ^
Now I'm curious about what donors were involved with the failed $14M contract for that QB a couple months back... Surely something more nefarious than these girls having dinner was at foot with that?
February 27th, 2023 at 5:23 PM ^
FYI, that was at Florida...not at Miami. Though he was committed to Miami before going to UF for $14M.
February 27th, 2023 at 6:28 PM ^
Which turned out to be $0, and now the kid isn't playing football next year.
February 28th, 2023 at 7:23 AM ^
Huh? He's at Arizona St.
That's not true at all...he just got out of his NLI and picked ASU over 3 schools from out west.
February 27th, 2023 at 6:30 PM ^
They were probably having hamburgers.
February 28th, 2023 at 9:35 AM ^
Actually you’re comment about Alabama is more of a joke than the NCAA.
Feel free to list the proven ( not jealous driven speculation ) violations Alabama has committed and not been reprimanded or punished for.
No blabber like you’re post but facts.
I’m waiting ( Jeopardy tune is playing ) .
February 28th, 2023 at 12:02 PM ^
your*
I can't reply to anything else but this ignorance.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
and of course, it's at Miami(YTM)
February 27th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
For something that is likely about number 100 on the list of significant violations at that school alone.
February 27th, 2023 at 1:34 PM ^
Why universities continue to be members of the NCAA is an absurdity in this day and age. The Supreme Court case pretty much opened the barn door about as wide as it could get.
This organization is an example of corruptness and arbitrary enforcement. It is no longer relevant. It is a tire fire that needs to be burned to the ground and the sooner the better.
February 27th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
It's probably because the universities themselves created NCAA!
February 27th, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
I don’t see why that prevents them from leaving the organization after what it’s evolved into.
February 27th, 2023 at 6:30 PM ^
The NCAA is a bunch of useful idiots. Their incompetence and malice actually help the schools get away with the majority of what they want to. A league with consistently enforced rules and real consequences is not what most NCAA members want.
February 28th, 2023 at 5:11 AM ^
They could still break away and form an organization that already allows the things they want and not have to deal with a corrupt organization that arbitrarily enforces rules.
February 28th, 2023 at 5:02 PM ^
I think as Blinkin says, it's better to have a mercurial incompetent governing body. Then one can point to them and say that it's so unpredictable that they would rather not do even common sense stuff. Much easier to keep the status quo than to make meaningful change. I think.
With arbitrary punishment, you’ve gone past incompetence. For crying out loud we’re punishing a women’s basketball program for a dinner and UM is under investigation for the coach buying a freakin burger while Florida is offering recruits $14 million and tampering is running rampant.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
I was wondering what Pac 12 or Big Ten school this was going to be then found out it was women's basketball. The NCAA is just the best.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:47 PM ^
The sooner the Power 5 schools break away from the NCAA for football, the better.
Not sure how that would work for basketball and the "NCAA Tournament."
February 27th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Well, it would theoretically "work" for basketball, but CBS lawyers would loose their minds with law suits.
February 27th, 2023 at 1:01 PM ^
Hardly. The prospect of such a divorce would have CBS' attorneys singlehandedly curing the Colorado River's water apportionment crisis. On the other hand, CBS' executives would have to double down on their beta blocker supplies.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:50 PM ^
NCAA sez, "Look! We're still in business."
February 27th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
Did I read it correctly that it was dinner with a booster? After Florida offered a recruit $14M to play QB for them? Sounds more like The Onion than reality.
February 27th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
it was a meal? it wasn't at the Brown Jug was it? that place is getting a reputation.
February 27th, 2023 at 1:06 PM ^
So, a coach set up a meeting with Ruiz (an NIL sponsor for Miami athletics) - and the meeting was a dinner at Ruiz’ home.
Did Ruiz cook the meal? Was it catered? What did they serve?
Texas spends $280K for Arch Manning’s official visit - and that’s ok. But, Harbaugh buys a couple of Brown Jug burgers for committed prospects during CV, and it’s an infraction.
Yeah - this is what we all think the NCAA should be doing.
Oh, any news on the classes for athletes at North Carolina? Is that case closed?
February 27th, 2023 at 1:21 PM ^
You beat me to it. Ruiz is one of the biggest scum bags that hangs around college sports. He's consistently done things a thousand times worse than this.
February 27th, 2023 at 1:25 PM ^
OTOH, the Cavinder twins are pretty much an example of everything that's wrong with everything, so there's that. . .
February 27th, 2023 at 1:50 PM ^
I know absolutely nothing about the Cavinder twins. Is this sarcasm or are they actually terrible?
February 27th, 2023 at 2:55 PM ^
Both. Google them. You'll quickly get the picture, and agree or not agree.
February 27th, 2023 at 4:19 PM ^
It would seem the Cavinder twins and Miami (FL) are a perfect fit... The only schools that might give them a "run for their money" (pun intended) would be USC and most SEC schools.
February 28th, 2023 at 8:54 AM ^
I googled them.
I saw ten hits on the front page (I had no appetite to scroll down for your wild goose chase) that either are links to the NIL ruling or mention their social media following.
So again, what have the twins done wrong?
February 28th, 2023 at 6:30 PM ^
Hey, a lot of mooks like their women really, really dumb and conformist like hell--don't mind if they have little lines on their chests that eventually go away. Why would I expect different on a football site? Well, it's a Michigan football site, and ten years ago when it was getting off of the ground, most of the people here would have agreed with me. But that's okay!
February 27th, 2023 at 2:57 PM ^
It has to be sarcasm! The girls are pretty good at basketball, but have made millions on Instagram and TikTok doing whatever you do on those platforms - presumably modeling clothes and dancing. I dunno what they do! Anyway, they did what they did and all was fine - until a coach setup a meeting with a NIL booster. That was the straw...
I mean, these girls make millions via social media while being NCAA basketball stars and all is fine. But Donald De La Haye was kicked off the UCF football team for earning chump change from YT. Maybe the kicker should have been making millions from YT?
February 27th, 2023 at 9:01 PM ^
Absolutely, they are very good @ basketball especially Haley. Both girls know what they're doing and cashing in while they can on NIL and social media...can't begrudge them of that.
This whole thing is that Ruiz is on the NCAA's hit list that was just waiting for a smoking gun scenario that they can go after the cesspool that Miami is.
February 27th, 2023 at 4:00 PM ^
I think the Lone Ranger and Tonto captured them decades ago.
February 27th, 2023 at 4:39 PM ^
Everything that's wrong with everything? They market their content on social media and make money from promotion and ads that reach their followers. Unless you can be more specific, they are basically doing what's been done on TV for decades.
You watch a show/content and that is the "product", you are forced to watch ads as part of viewing the "product", and the company that makes the "product" gets money from the advertisers.
Or am I missing something?
February 27th, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
Meanwhile, TAMU alerted the NCAA that it will be using its official fundraising organization (The 12th Man Foundation) to fund NIL deals. Maybe someone that is more acquainted with the law can tell me how this isn't a case of a school directly paying players.
https://www.on3.com/nil/news/texas-am-nil-12th-man-foundation-ross-bjork/
February 27th, 2023 at 1:27 PM ^
There’s no consistency. Makes me think they have a giant Wheel of Infractions that they spin for giggles just to randomly pick a school and violation.
February 27th, 2023 at 1:47 PM ^
It could be a new game show - "Wheel of Misfortune"...
February 27th, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^
Yeah, and instead of Vanna White, it’s spun by someone in a dunce cap.
February 27th, 2023 at 4:22 PM ^
Are you saying that Mark Emmert would replace Vanna White?
February 27th, 2023 at 7:58 PM ^
I'm not, but a truly fitting idea. It it's Emmert, though, isn't a dunce hat implied?
February 27th, 2023 at 8:37 PM ^
SF - I believe “Emmert = Dunce Hat” is proven.
I asked my kids whether this was a Proof they needed to validate after they wrapped up their second Calculus class at Michigan - and both told me… “Dad, that’s as basic and easy as it gets.”
February 27th, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
The wheel stops a lot on UM, OSU, USC, Penn st while stopping very little in areas that are southern football hotbeds.
Hmm curious.
February 27th, 2023 at 4:23 PM ^
Respectfully, I checked out the "wheel of schools" - and, none of the SEC schools are even represented. SO, you can't even select one...