Feds step in to block NCAA & Tennessee Enforcement
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Saw that coming from a mile away. NCAA picked a fight it can’t win. College sports is a free for all with no rules.
You would think College football is one thing that would motivate Congress to do something all on the same page.
If we're going to save collegiate athletics we have to take the college part out of it.
Unfortunately when lawyers got involved, it ruined college athletics.
And the NCAA had no backbone to stand up and fight and enforce what rules they put in place but I sometimes think they could not have imagined it would get to this point.
I hated the old term - “pay for play” that was being thrown around way before NIL and all this transfer portal BS.
College athletes received a hell of a lot more benefits than the regular student on campus and it was worth a boatload of money to boot.
And the NCAA had no backbone to stand up and fight and enforce what rules they put in place but I sometimes think they could not have imagined it would get to this point.
I hated the old term - “pay for play” that was being thrown around way before NIL and all this transfer portal BS.
College athletes received a hell of a lot more benefits than the regular student on campus and it was worth a boatload of money to boot.
Yup, out of all the involved parties, its the lawyers are who ruined college athletics.
Strong analysis.***
I guess I’ll get even more into the NFL. If I’m going to watch professional football, I want to watch it at the highest level.
if the NCAA can't control the NIL, do they have the authority to regulate the transfer portal? seems those two things together are like splitting the atom....I mean, can't they just alter the transfer rule? seems that would help
Just get rid of them. NCAA no longer provides anything of value to anyone.
Just secede and be done with it. They bring nothing to the table and they still take in millions in revenue on the backs of both the players AND the schools.
Just secede and be done with it. They bring nothing to the table and they still take in millions in revenue on the backs of both the players AND the schools.
And keep letting the collect checks for nothing? Why?
The president of the NCAA makes over $3 million per year. For nothing. Absolutely zero value can now be added by that organization. It’s a farce that anyone can feed their family from working for such a useless entity.
Just for perspective, the NCAA took in $1.3 billion in revenue in 2023….and only kicked back about $600 million to the schools. That’s $700 million that they took in for their own payroll and investments that never made it back to the actual earners. If that $700 million was redistributed evenly to the 130ish FBS schools who are solely responsible for generating about 99% of it, each school could add $5 million to its coffers.
Even if they distributed it evenly to all 350 member schools, the majority of which don’t produce any of it, that’s around $2 million per school. Imagine what that does for the Millsaps and Jackson State’s of the world.
As it stands now, they are proposing to not only NOT share that revenue with the schools, they are instead saying they will have to pay the settlements from all these anti-trust suits (which are all of their own doing) by either withholding future distributions to the schools or directly drawing from the school’s budget themselves as a condition of continued membership (not that there’s any difference between the two). They are nothing more than a leech on collegiate athletes and institutions. Taking everything while providing nothing, and unilaterally crafting an enforcement policy that put all its member institutions under tremendous financial liability. They need to be left for dead yesterday.
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It won’t pop, as alumni have been paying players for 50 years. But it will normalize, once all the average Joe alumni who donate small amounts to collectives get fed up. It’ll all rever back to the old donors.
The NCAA is the member institutions.
Simply change the formula and funding of the organization. Since Enforcement is now a nonissue, how much budget does that remove from the NCAA?
As I said, attempt to change the funding & formula first.
The Tennessee case is the best opportunity for funding reform of the NCAA in years.
Yeah. But we know that won’t happen.
That’s exactly why you don’t secede. You change the rules— at least as it relates to Division 1.
This ruling is great news for people who dislike the NCAA’s current role.
At the same time though, it would be a huge mistake to leave.
We would be saving the NCAA from its overzealousness by taking it over — and the government is on our side.
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