Cannot be sustained by many schools but can by others. The haves will keep pushing the have-nots back.
Going to be awesome putting the volleyball team, baseball team, softball team, track athletes, soccer teams, etc on payroll. I would think they're also entitled to benefits otherwise it's discrimination. If you're an employee of the school, don't you get school for free. So the 13 baseball scholarships now you have 30 kids going for free, nobody on half scholarship. Going to be great for the schools. I assume division 2 athletics would thrive in this market as well.
I’d argue that they are only entitled as employees to a percentage of the revenues they generate, which is basically $0.
I would guess that's some form of discrimination. Does the baseball/softball/volleyball coach get paid based on the revenue his or her team generates? Coaches and players are both employees. I could be wrong, it just seems different rules for too many different people. Not to mention isn't there a minimum wage issue?
If they separate the education part from the money sports, can they not have to worry about title ix issues? As things are increasingly moving toward straight up professionalism, thinking schools having pro teams without having the distractions of having to keep up the student-athlete thing could be where this all lands
I agree. Also don’t discount the perennial influence of friends, family and “advisors” on a kid. I’d think many will be hearing you can get some big bucks in the portal. Even if it isn’t accurate.
The problem with that is that the money they are being paid now is not (technically) in exchange for their services as basketball players. Remember, they are being compensated for their “name, image, and likenesses,” even though 99 percent of their names, images, and likenesses are not recognizable to 99 percent if the population. Their money is not being paid out by the universities (I’ll pause here if you can’t stop laughing yet), but by collectives funded by individuals who have no actual money-making use for the players’ names, images and likenesses.
You’re describing the current system. But you can start paying them, they become employees and then you collectively bargain for restrictions like transfer requirements, sit outs, etc.
really? Tickets to volleyball games are free. Let’s say coach is making 25k, what is 25k based off of 50k of donations. It’s just socialism within an athletic department. It’s not like the volleyball team and many other sports generate the revenue to cover their away game travel + coach and if the players are employees minimum wage.
But the “NIL” system is not going away, so you’ll still always have that on top of whatever else they implement.
And trade players...why not lol they only care about the $$$...so obviously they don't care where they play.
That’s what the Dartmouth team is suing for. It’s coming.
Correct…which would naturally follow making them employees. Dartmouth Men’s basketball joined a union after a regional NLRB declared them employees already
That’s a really interesting question, chickenbox. While I certainly haven’t closely looked at title IX, my “educated” guess is that if the school (rather than these NIL collectives) became the entity paying the players, then the school could run into Title IX issues when the football players are in invariably making way more money than the players on the women’s volleyball team…
We'll see. It's not sustainable for small schools. It may go away by destroying the whole system as it is, leading to its existence only in so-called superconferences for major football schools. Every other school reverts back to the way it was before NIL and the more prevalent pseudo-NIL cash grabs.
I suspect they promised him their starting center position which I doubt Sha promised him.I doubt it was the $$$.
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HallPirate good observation tho I am still not clear what Virginia Schools are now able to do:Can’t be used for NIL, but probably puts their donors in a positions where all their funds can be geared towards NIL:
James Madison’s Record $53M in Student Fees Tops All Public Schools
James Madison's athletic student fee subsidies reached a record $53,3 million in fiscal 2023, by far the highest of any public school in the country.
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Hell he may have been fighting for the starting center job considering his competition right now on our roster
EHE was a capable backup, but unless he made a huge leap, he would have been in the bottom third of BE starting centers. Didn’t have the post presence of Jaden and committed too many fouls.
