(12-14-2023 10:42 AM)thehappyhuskie Wrote: (12-13-2023 07:15 PM)Big Red Wrote: (12-13-2023 04:31 PM)NIU1981 Wrote: Just a guess here, but since athletes get paid now, the one-time transfer rule in theory restricts their ability to make a living.
But...
They aren't (supposed) to be getting paid to play for the team...by the team. I know it's all bvllsh!t but let's be honest. No one here is playing by the rules established so I suppose why have any rules since courts are going to just rule in the favor of chaos.
At some point these guys are going to start suing over not getting their agreed upon compensations.
By allowing no rules or regulations...you actively open the door to the worst of the worst and predatory practices.
They need to just be done with the 3 year/1 year requirement to play college sports and let the ones go pro that can and if they can't...you don't get paid until they can form some kind of a revenue sharing play and do away with the NIL.
It will still be unbalanced but it won't be unchecked.
I don't even know if that would fix it. You got Treveyon Henderson at OSU making more NIL money that running backs in the NFL. Granted he would probably make more in the NFL, but you get the idea. This is the new way things are going to go until it breaks. And by breaks, I mean one of the top schools is going to have to cry "foul, time out" before the NCAA steps in.
Right.
I guess my point is to try and get NIL money out of college sports or at least have a direct tie in to what they are doing to earn the money. If an investment broker is paying a kid to play d tackle for a school, then there should be evidence of that kid doing something for the investment broker other than play football for his alma mater.
If it were even possible, and if the NCAA is at all interested in saving it's product, they have to get away from professionals playing college sports. That's going to mean revenue sharing, which is going to favor the power conference schools but at least there will be a blueprint for compensation.
And to do this, you have to stop making it mandatory that these athletes go to college when many of them have no interest in being there other than to market themselves for the next level.
Otherwise, as long as courts are going to neuter and already power lacking NCAA, then I don't have a solution.
I just don't get how players participating in a sport is being dictated by a court based on money they are not (directly) receiving for playing the sport. I get that the sport is what makes them popular and some of them are turning that popularity into money...but most of them you couldn't pick out of a lineup so, they are being paid by an outside source to be part of an un-affiliated entity.
Fans shouldn't be funding player salaries directly.
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Court blocks NCAA transfer rule
