Updates from NLRB NIL roundtable

[18IsTheMan]

Live updates here. Reading through the different statements, it's all over the place. Make them employees. Don't make the employees. We shouldn't make them employees but making them employees is better than what we have now. What a mess to sort out.

Latest news, analysis from NLRB legislative hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz's NIL roundtable

Tuesday will be an action-packed day on Capitol Hill for the NCAA. NIL will be a focal point, specifically in Sen. Ted Cruz's roundtable.

www.on3.com

 

[DrMickeySC]

Live updates here. Reading through the different statements, it's all over the place. Make them employees. Don't make the employees. We shouldn't make them employees but making them employees is better than what we have now. What a mess to sort out.

Latest news, analysis from NLRB legislative hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz's NIL roundtable

Tuesday will be an action-packed day on Capitol Hill for the NCAA. NIL will be a focal point, specifically in Sen. Ted Cruz's roundtable.

www.on3.com

It is indeed a mess. But, the NCAA held their heads deep in the sand while the tide came in, and they were surprised that they got wet. It’s too late to be proactive, so here we go chasing it around. And with the obscene amounts of money in these TV contracts, it’s hard to blame the kids.

 

[18IsTheMan]

St. Joe's AD breaks down the cost of making student athletes employees:

“Let’s say you have 500 athletes,” he said. “You’re going to pay them $20 an hour. I know they would negotiate if Mr. Pearce and others had their way for $20 an hour. Let’s just say it’s $20 an hour for 20 hours a week. And they do not work more than 20 hours a week. That’s just a misrepresentation, also by the way.

“Let’s say you have to pay them $400 a week times 500 student-athletes that’s $200,000 a week. If you annualize that – I realize they’re not the full 20 hours a week during the so-called offseason – that’s some $10 million a year for the typical D-I institution. What would happen to women’s sports? … But even beyond women’s sports, men’s Olympic sports would be most impacted. We might decide we don’t want golf. We don’t want track. We don’t want wrestling. We don’t want these other sports that don’t have Title IX protection.”

This is the inevitable outcome: elimination of non-revenue sports.

 

[18IsTheMan]

Saban with some additional comments:

 

[18IsTheMan]

The part nobody wants to acknowledge

 

[18IsTheMan]

I actually think it would be great if this happens.