📝 Trump signs executive order on college sports...

[TerryP]

Last point, why stop at college? Why not let high school athletes get into the "NIL" game?

They already are. Less than 10 states don't allow NIL for high school kids.

I'll get back to the first paragraph...

 

[Krimson]

It's the first part I have a hard time wrapping my mind around. I may be making a mountain out of a mole here. I just wonder how we can find a fair market value when the markets are so different. As an off the wall hypothetical, do we compare a snow board deal with a kid at Colorado the same as a surfing board to a kid in Hawaii? A shoe deal for a kid at TT is going to be different than one for a kid at St. Johns: and here it's just the shoe itself that's different from the start.

There's A LOT of some things I hate here: math, calculations ...

I hate almost everything about the current state of CF. No issues with the players getting a stipend along with some revenue share going into an account for after they graduate or reach a certain age but the current no rules model is killing it for me. I'm no advertising guru but I'd assume a cereal commercial pays similar to a toys commercial, again just an assumption but I wouldn't think the product dictates the price. Where i could see an issue is the payment for a super star vs a relatively unknown. I don't have all the answers for sure but there has to be a better way than current state. Like I said, my biggest issue is guaranteed money before signing. Crowell could be the next great back from alabama or he could be a total bust so let him earn his NIL. I'd be willing to bet few outside of alabama and some hard core recruiting fans recognize his name right now and sure don't know what he looks like so any guaranteed NIL deal now comes from Alabama running back and some hope that he will be good based on his high school play. Not many people would gamble millions on an advertisement deal at this point in his career I wouldn't think. Let them earn the money after they arrive.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I don’t understand why the president should intervene at all.

Because nobody else is doing anything about it.

The NZAA sure as HELL isn't.

If Lord Saban didn't think the federal government should intervene, he wouldn't have participated in that round table at the White House.

This zero guardrails wild west free-for-all is what caused him to retire earlier than he wanted to.

Trust Saban.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

Because nobody else is doing anything about it.

The NZAA sure as HELL isn't.

If Lord Saban didn't think the federal government should intervene, he wouldn't have participated in that round table at the White House.

This zero guardrails wild west free-for-all is what caused him to retire earlier than he wanted to.

Trust Saban.

I disagree. But, that’s okay.

 

[TerryP]

I disagree. But, that’s okay.

Which part? The governmental intervention is what I'm assuming based on this:

I feel it’s a private manner.

A private matter between...?

One major player in all of this, every aspect, is a public entity: the state school.

There maybe a few exceptions; less than a dozen overall in FBS football. Maybe two dozen in basketball. Maybe. If said school, like BYU as example, is private AND doesn't receive Title IV funding? Then it's a private matter.

That isn't a personal opinion. These athletes educational costs still run through the FSA.

 

[TerryP]

It's been a few years since I've done the research on how many athletic departments are truly self-sufficient. It's a tricky definition. Some claim to be self-sufficient while depositing student fees. Some schools claim to send money back to the academic side, annually, while collecting money from students and state subsidies.

Truly, self-sufficient. Operating within its own. When I fell into that rabbit hole ... at the time there were, maybe, ten. I want to say it was seven or eight. Alabama, in spite of giving money back to the educational side, wasn't one of the few. As I recall, only LSU was at the time.

My point here for consideration ... governmental "intervention" in a game where they are already a player? I'm not seeing "intervention," as much as I see excerting some control.

This site is like "Cliff's Notes." However, it does give a pretty good overview of a school's financials. Pick a school, any school. You will find the governments money in the athletic department.

Equity in Athletics

ope.ed.gov