I think it's a mix of greed and incompetence. Don't think that you're being manipulated. The things that are happening are too stupid for there to be some great master plan.
I'm with Wanne, UF sports and fishing is pretty good stuff. I've gotten a little to old to hunt "doe's" anymore, the 2 legged variety of course.
The NIL will take care of itself if we limit the transfers to one time only... without sitting out a year. Keep the schools out of the pay-to-play business (do NIL off campus and unaffiliated to the schools) and all will still be fine.
I believe what you are proposing is akin to Harvard. Nothing wrong with this, as long as you don't schedule any teams like FAMU or Bethune-Cookman. They will usually beat the crap out of your beloved team. But you SHOULD get into a new rivalry with Embry-Riddle. Yeah!!! I hate to say this but there are no easy solutions, except to give it all up, and I mean individually. That is about all there is. Edit: I think you mean playing other schools but as unfunded sports rather than the AD setup we currently have, correct? Otherwise, you are proposing we play each other. Not sure that will get anyone's attention, including the potential participants. JMHO
Yeah, I have two strikes on me and the pitcher is looking in complete control on the mound. I appear to be in a predicament but I am not out yet. Gotta try and foul off the close ones until...
That proposal wouldn't keep the schools out of the pay for play business, it would just limit them to two opportunities: Once out of HS, and once for the free transfer year. All of the NIL is ostensibly done off campus now until the House settlement is finished and that hasn't slowed the de-facto pay for play down even a little bit.
I think House might have overplayed their authority with that deal to make the schools payback money that was never negotiated for at the time the schools were making network money. The House making schools pay money ex post facto seems illegal to me, but I no lawyer. It just seems illegal.
It’s not “The House”, just House, and it’s the NCAA offering to make reparations and trying to put a cap on NIL and gain permission to rubber stamp all the third party deals. Almost everything they’re negotiating there is going to be shut down as soon as someone challenges it, which will likely happen almost immediately after the settlement is reached. That lawsuit isn’t going to accomplish anything.
The courts haven't ruled. It's a negotiated settlement....the schools agreed to pay on their own volition. No one is forcing them (yet).
Yet? Okay so this is all a "suggestion" negotiated by the NCAA? I have to admit I have not followed this at all. Feel free to sill me in, brother crusher.
Cliff's notes: 1) The former players were asking for zillions, 2)the NCAA loses every case that makes it to the Supremes (or otherwise), 3) Schools got scared at that number and terrible NCAA losing record in the courts and decide to offer a settlement of billions instead of zillions, 4) 75 yo female California judge taking her own sweet time deciding if the settlement negotiated between the plaintiffs and defendants is "good enough" to approve. An aside to all this is that a bunch of pollyanna college administrators believe they can use/structure this settlement to tame the NIL mess into something that can be managed (Supremes already said that they can't). So expect this to be back in court and blown up after the first "deal" is rejected by the NIL clearinghouse (or even before if the collectives proactively sue).
I think the colleges are smart enough to know that they are grasping at straws. Meanwhile, the boosters are getting bent over the bucket and taken for everything. The schools pretend to be trying to work something out, but they know they don't have a leg to stand on, and they are Pretty much dancing around in circles while the boosters get taken. Eventually, they're gonna have to take that 100 to 200,000,000 that they earn every year and pay their damn players. Boosters should not be stuck with this bullshit
This seems like pay to play, when have they ever gotten paid in the past? And reaching to the past for "back to pay" seems unrealistic even in the friendliest courtrooms. The universities need to get better representation.
You would think so, but apparently the Universities are running scared after Losing so many consecutive court cases
