re: Guilbeau and the dumbass reporters want to put LSU at a disadvantage with NIL

Listening to Moscona right now and hearing the attorney that will be representing the three reporters is fairly telling. He is skating around every question and you can tell that he knows that the whole situation is shady.

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It amazes me that it seems like we are the only college town that the media and talking heads seem to always be looking to F/uck LSU. You think Bama media people were trying to uncover pay schemes before NIL? You think media folks in Columbus are trying to screw over OSU. You think news paper reporters in bloomington are running expose's on Indiana. It’s like our news media is always out to screw over LSU some way some angle every year!

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I’ve often wondered the same thing. Even if nothing comes of it, it’s currently all over the internet, and it’s not a good look. It implies that LSU is doing something illegal. If I were Lane Kiffin and LSU, I’d revoke the credentials of any Advocate or Tiger Rag so-called “journalists.”

It is not just us, we are only focused on the stories that involve LSU. “Journalists” all over the country are doing this stuff to draw clicks for themselves

In An Era of Big Money, the University of Illinois Shrugs Off Rules on Athletes’ NIL Deals

Lack of standards makes tracking NIL deals at UMD near impossible

Mount Pleasant man seeks to sack the secrecy behind new college athlete payments

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Rev share is not NIL

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I’m not sure it’s that black & white.

Under the House settlement, part of what the schools are paying is intended to be compensation for the school’s use of the players’ NIL. And while we haven’t seen the rev share agreements from LSU, some other schools’ rev share agreements (obtained by various reporters around the country) explicitly state that they are, in fact, NIL agreements.

Louisiana’s NIL law states that NIL contracts are exempt from public records disclosure. The law was originally written to address third party NIL, but the same statute does also outline the circumstances under which a university can make direct NIL payments (including a change in NCAA/SEC bylaws or a settlement that has the same effect as a change in bylaws).

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statute does also outline the circumstances under which a university can make direct NIL payments (including a change in NCAA/SEC bylaws or a settlement that has the same effect as a change in bylaws).

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That is an interesting twist.

Here is the law, for reference.

The relevant portions:

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A. An intercollegiate athlete at a postsecondary education institution may earn compensation for the use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness subject to the following:

(1) To preserve the integrity, quality, character, and amateur nature of intercollegiate athletics and to the extent prohibited by the rules of athletics governing associations, a postsecondary education institution or an officer, director, employee, or agent of such institution shall not provide a current or prospective athlete with compensation for the use of the student athlete's name, image, or likeness unless authorized by one of the following:

(a) A court order nullifying or declaring unlawful current restrictions on player compensation.
(b) The bylaws or regulations of the athletics governing organization for the postsecondary educational institution.
(c) A settlement agreement or consent decree which has the same effect as a change in bylaws or regulations of an athletics governing organization.

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M. Any document disclosed by the intercollegiate athlete to the postsecondary education institution that references the terms and conditions of the athlete's contract for compensation shall be confidential and not subject to inspection, examination, copying, or reproduction pursuant to the Public Records Law.

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The part about contracts being confidential is clearly referring to contracts disclosed to the university as part of the due diligence process for 3rd party NIL. That’s from the original NIL law passed in 2021 (I believe).

However, the part in A.(1) describing when a university can contract directly was added in 2024, specifically because of the House settlement.

I guess the journalists are going to argue that there’s a distinction between contracts “disclosed by the intercollegiate athlete to the postsecondary education institution” and contracts that the institution itself is a party to? Regardless, between that and the FERPA claims it seems like an uphill battle.

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Why to give them a mouthpiece Matt.

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Who is Matt?

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Pretty simple:

The revenue sharing dollars are public

Everything else is not.

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Except LSU is saying none of it is public.

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Is the pay to college athletes a secret? I'm asking because there seems to be at least some news about how much the athletes are paid.

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Hell I would like to know just to see if we’re really competing with everybody else yr. to yr. You can’t really bitch about play and coaching if we’re not spending the money.

But realistically we’ll probably never get the whole truth.

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