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Looks like schools can now pay players.

RangerGranger said:
"The NCAA will pay more than $2.7 billion in damages over 10 years to past and current athletes"


I need help:

  1. How does the NCAA have 2.7 billion dollars?
  2. How did and how does the NCAA get money?
  3. Is the NCAA managed by elected officials? If not, whom?
  4. Since the players have now commanded a larger share of the pie, how is the NCAA impacted? Who is impacted? What industries are impacted?

The players have gained something, but who or what is losing something?
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Fans
 
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Bender said:
I absolutely agree here. If the NCAA and universities want to avoid ****housery, payments need to be capped at a certain maximum, with equality for positions and not what the NFL has, e.g.

AND those payments have to be made official in such a manner that they can be backtracked and publicized.
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Payments from the university can't forcibly be publicized in the case of private universities.
 
Astcloud11 said:
Payments from the university can't forcibly be publicized in the case of private universities.
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Which is why setting up corresponding laws in this instance should happen.

Otherwise, private universities have an advantage that can't be traced back.
 
Bender said:
I absolutely agree here. If the NCAA and universities want to avoid ****housery, payments need to be capped at a certain maximum, with equality for positions and not what the NFL has, e.g.

AND those payments have to be made official in such a manner that they can be backtracked and publicized.
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In my opinion this just brings back the under the table BAGS that the NCAA only allows certain schools to get away with
#DeathToTheNCAA
 
DeanCane said:
In my opinion this just brings back the under the table BAGS that the NCAA only allows certain schools to get away with
#DeathToTheNCAA
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Well, either we make it open to the public or we don't.

But there has to be some level of transparency. And I fear that we will always have that under the table stuff, regardless of what happens.
 
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Bender said:
Which is why setting up corresponding laws in this instance should happen.

Otherwise, private universities have an advantage that can't be traced back.
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Without guard rails won’t need to worry as private schools - sans ND - will struggle to stay in the game.
 
Tony4Canes said:
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No way Congress acts before an election or this is enacted. Zero. Don’t care what people say. They will only act after it is and the consequences follow and there is an outcry - if there is even one.

If they had this all ready to go and knew that they were to get Congress to act the Notre Dame president wouldn’t have to put out such a thirsty, desperate statement, even though I know some people think that they know that they’ve already lobby to to get this done. I don’t buy it.

And with that here we go

 
brcane1 said:
So how does this work under Title IX?
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Wondering this too.

I doubt it, but would players become employees? Which would mean a bunch of women's programs and scholarships wouldn't be required any longer.
 
88 said:
Wondering this too.

I doubt it, but would players become employees? Which would mean a bunch of women's programs and scholarships wouldn't be required any longer.
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The NCAA president already came out with a statement begging Congress for an exemption, including on the Employee question in the quote but I'd read that to mean Title IX too.

 
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brcane1 said:
So how does this work under Title IX?
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If we’re really going the capitalism route, I could see this getting abolished or amended. And it should have been years ago.

Title IX is well-intended but has caused a plethora of men’s programs to be canceled. Football in itself is 85 scholarships, you can’t add any more men’s sports until the 85 scholarships are fulfilled on the women’s side. Want to guess what the only sport is that makes money for most schools in America? You have your occasional men’s basketball programs or maybe a baseball program or two, but in large part, 95% of non-football sports teams yield a negative profit.

They should keep football out of the equation imo and then go 1 for 1, and my perspective has nothing to do with sexism or anything of that nature. It’s simply a business model and similar to how the NBA and the WNBA aren’t equal pay due to the revenue one league brings in over the other. College sports are going down the same path.
 
DMoney said:
This is the real scam. They are trying to get Congress to provide a legal safe harbor to the NCAA, which has been destroyed every time it’s been in court. This would breathe new life into the NCAA’s enforcement arm and allow them to cut off outside NIL money that rightfully belongs to the players.

The legislation must fail. Don’t grant legal safe harbor to a criminal cartel.
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I'd be shocked if Congress picks this up. There's not much sympathy in Congress for restricting the earning potential of players who generate billions of dollars in revenues.

Sure there'll be some guys in Congress who love college football and will feel it's of upmost national importance to "preserve the competitive balance". But those guys are a distinct minority.
 
Bender said:
I absolutely agree here. If the NCAA and universities want to avoid ****housery, payments need to be capped at a certain maximum, with equality for positions and not what the NFL has, e.g.

AND those payments have to be made official in such a manner that they can be backtracked and publicized.
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Your cruel proposal would have a negative impact on the paper bag industry.
 
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