Power conferences take over sight of athletes compensation

[LWSVOL]

Monumental shift: Power conferences, not NCAA, to control policing athlete compensation

A committee of power conference administrators took significant steps this week toward the creation of a new entity that will govern the evolving professionalized aspects of college sports.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[hog88]

This will fall flat on it's face if they insist on trying to regulate NIL deals.

 

[LWSVOL]

This will fall flat on it's face if they insist on trying to regulate NIL deals.

courts are going to have a lot of action the next 5-10 years.

 

[stolitonic]

Yeah, trying to implement a salary cap at this point is pretty much impossible

Sure you can do it from the university funds, but how about collectives and even more out there is external sponsors.

I can see the lawsuit now if the local cookie company wants to sponsor player X and this new entity says no.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

courts are going to have a lot of action the next 5-10 years.

But the thing is, no matter how hard they try to regulate it, programs will just try to find ways to circumvent it, and we're right back where we started pre-NIL.

 

[VFLCodyGBO]

Public contracts would be a step in the right direction where the language is readable by anyone and start going after organizations offering NIL linked to school selection. Businesses hate legal issues.

Frankly I wonder how these lawsuits have merit considering these “kids” knowingly entered agreements to play for an NCAA institution while knowing the rules they had against earnings while a part of their member institution’s teams. If you don’t like it, go play in another league.

 

[The Original Fade]

It’s going to be wild wild west until the entities that are shelling out 10 mil for a mid of the pack QB like Carson Beck figure out he’s not worth near that.

 

[KHVol]

They are trying to be an NCAA Part Deux. They may agree To a salary cap….but they will not be able to regulate NIL money.

 

[ArmchairQB]

This sounds fairly sensible, really. Athletic departments already publish their financials, so there’s a pretty clear picture of what kind of pot there exists to get paid out of. There’s a hard limit before a team is running its program into the ground, and there are plenty of examples out there of leagues with financial fair play/profit and sustainability rules.

And there’s Title IX, too. The Lady Vols win over UConn had better viewership than games like the NHL’s Blackhawks-Panthers game this week. There’s a solid case to be made that revenue distribution that passes legal muster doesn’t just mean football and men’s hoops. And there’s not really much of an option to not offer other programs to balance out those 105-scholarship football rosters, even if they operate at a loss.

It’s a great era to be a lawyer.

 

[ArmchairQB]

Yeah, trying to implement a salary cap at this point is pretty much impossible

Sure you can do it from the university funds, but how about collectives and even more out there is external sponsors.

I can see the lawsuit now if the local cookie company wants to sponsor player X and this new entity says no.

The article says that “Deals affiliated with a booster, booster group or any entity deemed to be associated with the school are the only ones subject to the clearinghouse’s more rigorous fair market value standard.” So Deloitte has a limited scope that shouldn’t touch private agreements. I do wonder if athletes lose a little leverage there (but won’t). If you’re making X to represent the school you play for, it kind of weakens your case for why you should make 10X to do a 30 second spot for some local shop. So that’s exactly what’ll happen and how the big teams will get people paid-paid.