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re: NCAA loses ability to enforce NIL policy in Tennessee and Virginia
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:18 pm to chalmetteowl
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:18 pm to chalmetteowl
This “players are going to unionize” talk does not make sense now. The players are getting money in ways and amounts not seen before, why unionize? In order to gain what….to make some old guys on the SECRant feel better because some sense of order will be enforced?
The fact that college football is hugely popular, is awash in money, and the main protagonists in college football (the players) were only getting a paltry amount of that money for decades put us in this situation. Now that the dam is breaking and large sums of that money is flowing to the players via NIL, it is laughable that the “baws” on this board have turned into a bunch of pearl clutching traditionalists saying, “but loyalty!,……but they get a free dorm room!,…….but they get …..”
The fact that college football is hugely popular, is awash in money, and the main protagonists in college football (the players) were only getting a paltry amount of that money for decades put us in this situation. Now that the dam is breaking and large sums of that money is flowing to the players via NIL, it is laughable that the “baws” on this board have turned into a bunch of pearl clutching traditionalists saying, “but loyalty!,……but they get a free dorm room!,…….but they get …..”
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Posted on 2/23/24 at 11:27 pm to FlyDownTheField83
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The players are getting money in ways and amounts not seen before, why unionize?
To get more
And also to protect themselves from bad conditions in different ways. Let’s say the stars are getting a million dollars in NIL. Half the team gets little to nothing not counting the standard scholarship room and board.
This post was edited on 2/23/24 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 2/24/24 at 8:31 am to FlyDownTheField83
The main reason people are so butt hurt about this is that they think since the fans “pay the bills” and support the programs so strongly, their interests and desires should be paramount and players should be happy and satisfied to basically be peons and gladiators putting their asses on the line for the fans’ enjoyment.
And the fans’ interests and desires are not being considered here, and will never be considered here ever again.
Fans quote the value of a scholarship, etc., which is probably legitimately astronomical in their frame of reference for dealing with things, but in the reality of how much money is floating around in the sport today is microscopic.
This has always, under the minutiae of federal law, which doesn’t give three cacas about the competitive sports aspect, been a house of cards that was destined to collapse once the right challenge was filed in the right venue.
Absent a contractual situation, which is where I think we’re headed whether it specifically labels the players as employees or not, there is nothing that can be done to restrain players’ earnings from their talents or their ability to take their talents elsewhere. Tuberville who isn’t objective is the only person yapping otherwise in Congress, and I will note to you that the last Supreme Court ruling relevant to this was 9-0 for the players.
I don’t disagree with anyone who says “it’s destroyed college football as it was.” It absolutely has. But it is what it is. Eventually it will fall into some type of equilibrium and fans can either watch or not watch.
And I think at the end of the day most will keep watching because despite all the big talk I think they want to see elite players out there wearing their school’s jersey, even if it’s transitory, rather than taking it to D3 or intramural which is the only way to return the old order.
Again, this was the inevitable result of this becoming a zillion dollar business, but everyone who was popping their buttons as the contracts kept getting larger couldn’t see it.
And the fans’ interests and desires are not being considered here, and will never be considered here ever again.
Fans quote the value of a scholarship, etc., which is probably legitimately astronomical in their frame of reference for dealing with things, but in the reality of how much money is floating around in the sport today is microscopic.
This has always, under the minutiae of federal law, which doesn’t give three cacas about the competitive sports aspect, been a house of cards that was destined to collapse once the right challenge was filed in the right venue.
Absent a contractual situation, which is where I think we’re headed whether it specifically labels the players as employees or not, there is nothing that can be done to restrain players’ earnings from their talents or their ability to take their talents elsewhere. Tuberville who isn’t objective is the only person yapping otherwise in Congress, and I will note to you that the last Supreme Court ruling relevant to this was 9-0 for the players.
I don’t disagree with anyone who says “it’s destroyed college football as it was.” It absolutely has. But it is what it is. Eventually it will fall into some type of equilibrium and fans can either watch or not watch.
And I think at the end of the day most will keep watching because despite all the big talk I think they want to see elite players out there wearing their school’s jersey, even if it’s transitory, rather than taking it to D3 or intramural which is the only way to return the old order.
Again, this was the inevitable result of this becoming a zillion dollar business, but everyone who was popping their buttons as the contracts kept getting larger couldn’t see it.
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