NCAA Is Starting to Probe Third Party NIL Deals

Nothing to see here!

What is the toothless NCAA going to do to University o Oregon?  Send them a sternly written letter?

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. 

if the NCAA wants to get destroyed by the Supreme Court they are welcome to do so!

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.

Double secret probation 

So many organizations are trying so hard to remain relevant in 2022. It is just adorable. 

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."

REMAIN CALM. ALL IS WELL.

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. 

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? 

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. 

That's cute.

Breaking news: Arsonists to probe why there are so many fires.

This just makes me shake my head and chuckle. What a joke.

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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…

This is clearly terrible news for North Texas State and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  

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. 

Yes, since the ncaa has done such a great job in investigating illicit payments thus far.

That horse they are looking for left the barn a loooooonnnnnggggg time ago...

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. 

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.

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.   

Absolutely nothing will come of an NCAA look see.  The NCAA is no longer relevant with Power 5 football…haven’t been for decades.

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 

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.

Wasn't it an Oregon player who recently criticized the ess eee see for not playing school or something?

Interesting timing.

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.

Impotence is a serious and humiliating medical condition.  We need stop mocking the NCAA and have more empathy for their condition.