re: NCAA house settlement has been approved. Schools can now directly pay athletes

so how much will texas end up spending before they finally win a national championship in football/basketball/baseball?

pretty sure they were over $40 million in NIL deals last year and didn't get it done, maybe double it and they'll finally end the slump

College sports sucks now so bad

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If it actually killed what people are currently calling NIL, then I would say it is good if you’re a fan of a university willing to pay full rev share and fill all allowable scholarships for sports you care about winning in. If lawsuits allow the current NIL environment to exist along with rev share, then all this does is accelerate the demise of these systems.

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It will have little effect on NIL. NIL means a player can go outside the university to make money based on their own persona. The universities can’t regulate it outside of banning boosters from making deals with players.

But an NIL collective can “collect” sponsors and businesses to put the players to “work.”

I think the best schools can do with the new bill is construct contracts that limit the transfer portal.

Either way, the sport is dead as we knew it. Gambling still exists so it’ll be fine. But those of us who grew up playing and watching football are going to drift away.

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When does football and basketball the only revenue makers tell the rest of the sports to fund your own way

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Can’t because of title IX.

Maybe they break away into an official minor league and use some kind of loophole to keep the jerseys and facilities on campus? But probably not.

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It’s cool having Big Ben on the call or seeing Shaq at a football game because they’re “one of us”.

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A large part of that is because they assimilated into the culture of LSU as STUDENTS. These guys won’t have as much allegiance or connection to their schools if it’s just an entry-level job. And with bullshite virtual instruction being used for these athletes, they will never feel the camaraderie of their campuses no matter how many games they play during a season.

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Is this good or bad? Seems like nothing is changing to what is already happening except now schools can pay on their own...

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Nothing is changing?

Schools are essentially going to be required to pay athletes out of their direct athletic funds if they want any semblance of a competitive program.

That's a pretty massive change. Will it affect the big sports like football and basketball? To a smaller degree because most money will be funneled there, but the smaller sports (the sports that actually make up the majority of college sports) are going to be negatively affected.

Colleges will basically have to choose what sports they want to keep because they simply won't have enough money to go around and fund them all.

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It will have little effect on NIL. NIL means a player can go outside the university to make money based on their own persona. The universities can’t regulate it outside of banning boosters from making deals with players. But an NIL collective can “collect” sponsors and businesses to put the players to “work.

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The entire point of this NIL clearinghouse is to kill these grey area arrangements with collectives. I have no doubt they will still exist, but they will be for more realistic rates and require some level of effort from the student athlete.

Like most are reporting, this concept will be litigated, and the clearinghouse may end up dead. I know LSU is under the impression and preparing for, maybe naively, that the NIL space will change dramatically. If the clearinghouse does have its intended effect, we just go back to the bagman.

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It falls apart once dumb arse fans quit falling over themselves to foot the bill while the universities and talent get rich.

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I'm sort of done with it all!

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It falls apart once dumb arse fans quit falling over themselves to foot the bill while the universities and talent get rich.

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This.

From now on, I’m only giving to specific sport fundraising initiatives on my alma mater’s athletic website, like new hurdles for the track team or some shite like that. New batting cages for one of the stick sports. Frick all this NIL and paying athletes directly for them to still bolt elsewhere a year later.