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Hville said:
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Judge grants preliminary injunction over NIL rules

A federal judge has barred the NCAA from enforcing its rules prohibiting NIL compensation from being used to recruit athletes, granting a request for a preliminary injunction and dealing another blow to the association's ability to govern college sports.
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Isn't this what's already happening today. Players find out what kind of a NIL deal they can get before they sign. We've signed players this way this year when players did not visit, got a NIL deal, and signed as a walk on because they did not visit.

A federal judge in Tennessee granted a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon that prohibits the NCAA from punishing any athletes or boosters for negotiating name, image and likeness deals during their recruiting process or while they are in the transfer portal.

Today anyone from the school cannot be directly involved, and the judge's ruling doesn't mention anyone associated directly with the school. The article gives an example, but the example shows a coach was involved.

NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from signing NIL contracts that are designed as inducements to get them to attend a particular school -- one of the few restrictions in place for how student-athletes can make money. For example, the NCAA recently announced sanctions against Florida State football because a member of its coaching staff connected a prospect with a booster collective that works closely with the Seminoles.The collective made a specific offer to the player, who was considering transferring from his current school to Florida State.

Seems to me the NCAA is coming down on Fl State because of the involvement of the coach, not the collective offering the player NIL money.
 




Nehunter88 said:
Isn't this what's already happening today. Players find out what kind of a NIL deal they can get before they sign. We've signed players this way this year when players did not visit, got a NIL deal, and signed as a walk on because they did not visit.

A federal judge in Tennessee granted a preliminary injunction Friday afternoon that prohibits the NCAA from punishing any athletes or boosters for negotiating name, image and likeness deals during their recruiting process or while they are in the transfer portal.

Today anyone from the school cannot be directly involved, and the judge's ruling doesn't mention anyone associated directly with the school. The article gives an example, but the example shows a coach was involved.

NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from signing NIL contracts that are designed as inducements to get them to attend a particular school -- one of the few restrictions in place for how student-athletes can make money. For example, the NCAA recently announced sanctions against Florida State football because a member of its coaching staff connected a prospect with a booster collective that works closely with the Seminoles.The collective made a specific offer to the player, who was considering transferring from his current school to Florida State.

Seems to me the NCAA is coming down on Fl State because of the involvement of the coach, not the collective offering the player NIL money.
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I think this is likely to void the Florida state penalty.
 
The comment in the article that the NCAA will likely become insolvent is concerning. What will replace it? Will it be a superconference? Will it be a professional league? How will it be regulated? By contracts? These court decisions would make it likely that no rules will be allowed.
 
Hville said:
And why is this all on the NCAA. They have tried to keep it out.
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No...they have tried to be the big honchos in control. The money for players was inevitable. So instead of recognizing that and crafting some rules that recognized it and allowed for the integrity of the teams to stay in tact they turned away from it. Tried to deny it. Now we have a mess where the players are all free agents every year. No professional sports operate like that. Granted the expanded playoff will solve some of the bowl problems but just for 12 teams. The others will go into bowl games with their second string players just like last year.
 



We’ve discussed a lot of these issues in various discussions. I think when we discuss this in a few years, several issues will be more clear:

1) The NCAA is a cheerleader and scheduler (and money-launderer). The NCAA, whether it continues to exist in the form it does now, is now and always will be nearly toothless. It’s an association of organizations (colleges and universities) that must be willing to police and enforce themselves through this larger structure — it is not really a standalone authority with any true power, such as a federal regulatory body (SEC or FDA) or a policing/prosecutorial body (DOJ or Douglas County DA). So, in the end, practically the institutions and athletes need to be willing to be punished or held in check. They are not. And the NCAA has no real power.
2) Institutions mostly will have the power to align themselves and contract with whom they wish. They run the risk of alienating certain other institutions, networks, corporations, etc., but the most successful (viewership, wins, marketability, brand, etc.) will mostly be immune to any of this. That’s a polite way of saying that Ohio State and Michigan can and will act like enormous butt holes always and get accommodated always.
3) Individual athletes will gain more and more freedoms from the institutions and their so-called “amateur” status or limitations over time. Laws and courts will always generally favor the ability to work, make money, and enjoy free movement for financial and other opportunities. More accurately, laws and courts will be reluctant to restrict these opportunities. (The same principles hold with the institutions above). In spite of the bitching and moaning done you hear on a day-to-day basis, our laws and structure mostly encourage free trade and commerce of all kinds. Period. If you doubt this, take a deep dive in the same structures of any other developed country in the world.
4) The money will grow. Those enjoying it will shrink, meaning simply that the rich will get richer. This is happening now. And it will happen tomorrow. You can set your watch to it.
5) Short of the most powerful institutions sharing power and wealth in some kind of a true NCAA structure, or coop, or profit-sharing framework with networks and sponsors, the likely “fix” — if it’s even possible — comes from Congress. We’ll see. It would be members of Congress from regions where status starts to slip and the wealthy alumni groups start to lose their minds.
6) A final note: the market gives what the market wants. The genius of March Madness is that a 16 (maybe the 68th seed!) plays and competes and maybe beats a one seed. That keeps people glued to their tvs. College football hasn’t really cultivated this, not in any structured way. We love upsets. But as an audience we haven’t yet rebelled against the same handful of teams matching up in the major bowls or playoffs every year. Fans bitch about it but still watch the games. When they stop watching “Ohio State - Alabama Round VI!!” the dynamic will change. Until then the powerful will continue to eat the weak in college football. In college basketball the “weak” — the upsets — are the show. It’s just different for so many reasons.

Thanks. GBR!
 

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