SIAP: Here's how Tennessee will pay players

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Tnphil said:
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House settlement approves revenue sharing. Here's how Tennessee will pay players

University of Tennessee athletes will be paid revenue directly by the school, in addition to third-party NIL income. Here's how the new system works.
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There are still a lot of unanswered questions here. If it’s true that most player contracts will be one year deals, that does nothing to solve the transfer portal issue (which in my view is the major problem right now). And I don’t believe the school can carry a large number of multi-year contracts unless there are reasonable buyout clauses. That could get really expensive if you have a bunch of players that don’t pan out or get injured.
 
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Honestly, if this plays out into some kind of contract restrictions, number and amount of contracts, etc., it could be the start of getting to a "true" level playing field.
 
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This settles nothing. Just gives them a year or two of breathing room. Probably one year -- if they're lucky. And it's complete idiocy for them to use the term "salary cap." Salary caps in sports are designed to maintain competitive balance and control costs. There is no salary cap in college sports. Not so long as the NIL pay-for-play scheme exists. And before anyone trots out the "that's not the schools paying them" nonsense, just stop. That fig leaf couldn't cover a single curly hair of that preposterous justification.

Anything the schools use to control the system will be sued into oblivion. Eligibility rules, real salary caps, transfer rules - all of it. People will carve them up. And that's how it'll be until Congress gives them an exemption to operate outside standard employment law.
 
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Voltopia said:
This settles nothing. Just gives them a year or two of breathing room. Probably one year -- if they're lucky. And it's complete idiocy for them to use the term "salary cap." Salary caps in sports are designed to maintain competitive balance and control costs. There is no salary cap in college sports. Not so long as the NIL pay-for-play scheme exists. And before anyone trots out the "that's not the schools paying them" nonsense, just stop. That fig leaf couldn't cover a single curly hair of that preposterous justification.

Anything the schools use to control the system will be sued into oblivion. Eligibility rules, real salary caps, transfer rules - all of it. People will carve them up. And that's how it'll be until Congress gives them an exemption to operate outside standard employment law.
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If the NCAA had done this ten years ago it would have worked. Not anymore. The first time the panel deems an NIL deal unreasonable, the whole thing will blow up.
 
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B81 said:
The first time the panel deems an NIL deal unreasonable, the whole thing will blow up.
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Exactly. 1000% this. Someone will sue them and they'll lose, and they'll keep losing until they're given exemption. Every issue that could be construed as employment will be used against the NCAA.
 
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It started with Ed Reed, and now the final nail has been driven in the coffin of the college football world that we all used to love. College football is now minor league NFL. And it’s never going back.
 
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