NIL Collectives are dead!

[boiledmeconium]

Long live direct payments from schools!

How historic House v. NCAA settlement will impact college athletics on and off the field for years to come

The historic legal case will transform every aspect of college sports as we know it currently

www.cbssports.com

 

[Wolegib]

That’s a very informative article. The one point it does not address is how this revenue sharing affects schools where their athletic department and its revenue are a separate entity and funded entirely by boosters. Will this revenue sharing come from the school? Or will it come from the John Purdue Club and similar booster clubs?

Will we see an end of clubs like the JPC? Or will the money they pay out not be a part of the revenue sharing?

One thing I believe we will see is colleges will stop their current huge buyouts of coaches and they will keep bad coaches for the duration of their contracts.

It mentions the overall size of teams such as football teams will be lessened but the amount of players on scholarship may be increased. Maybe Painter knew this and why he is over recruiting. Perhaps he knew he would be able to have more scholarship players on his team than the current quotas.


Something this article alludes to is schools in an effort to save money may drop sports to offset their revenue sharing costs.

Something this article also mentions is the amount of payouts conferences give their schools as part of their TV network deals. It basically points out why teams like USC and UCLA joined the BIG10. If I were to speculate, I would speculate that other teams will look to get out of their current conferences to join the BIG 10 in order to be able to pay their revenue sharing requirements.

And like the article points out, the divide between the haves and have nots will only get bigger.

 

[SKYDOG]

Northwestern is now number one on my most disliked schools. They started this along with football hazing and the current Palestine protesting. They have a lot to dislike for me.

 

[PaBoiler78]

Northwestern is now number one on my most disliked schools. They started this along with football hazing and the current Palestine protesting. They have a lot to dislike for me.

 

[johnboiler123]

Nil isn’t going anywhere. These kids are going to make nil on top of their salaries. Schools with large nil pools are going to utilize it to maintain a recruiting edge.

 

[boiledmeconium]

Nil isn’t going anywhere. These kids are going to make nil on top of their salaries. Schools with large nil pools are going to utilize it to maintain a recruiting edge.

There will always be NIL. But the Collectives themselves are superfluous now that payments can come directly from schools. Traditional University-connected Boosters like JPC will likely run most of that moving forward.

 

[Wolegib]

Another point that hasn’t really been explained very well. Schools now have 22% of their revenue they can give to their athletes. Does that mean they actually have to give that much to their athletes? Or is that 22% the cap of what they could spend ? If your team is perennially a last place team, why give all that money to your athletes to finish last. Just follow the Oakland As example and spend the minimum amount and keep the money. Why waste your money if you know all you are going to attract with it are bottom feeder type athletes. If the player isn’t going to be ALL BIG10, is he really worth giving extra money? Why give a 2 star athlete the same type of money a 4 star would receive elsewhere. Why spend money just to spend money?

 

[Wolegib]

And looking at the 22%, schools like OSU still have 10 times more money/revenue they could spend than teams like Purdue. And other non power 5 conference teams.

 

[z_one]

And looking at the 22%, schools like OSU still have 10 times more money/revenue they could spend than teams like Purdue. And other non power 5 conference teams.

And that will be no different than it has ever been. Those schools have always spent more to field their teams, even when it was illegal. 'Cheaters never prosper' was the most foolish statement ever made. They do and they will continue to do so. ie. the cheaters at UM. I despise the cheating. Anyone can win if they cheat enough and they prove it again and again.

 

[Wolegib]

And that will be no different than it has ever been. Those schools have always spent more to field their teams, even when it was illegal. 'Cheaters never prosper' was the most foolish statement ever made. They do and they will continue to do so. ie. the cheaters at UM. I despise the cheating. Anyone can win if they cheat enough and they prove it again and again.

I spent a few years on the academic side at Auburn in the late 90’s. The fans never considered giving money to athletes as cheating. They wouldn’t even try to hide it. They saw it as a cost of doing business. It was considered a Goodwill business expense. The fans would just give players Benjamins as they left the stadium. They considered it proper and a donation to a needy cause. You could call it a tip. Players would walk home with $500-5,000 in their pockets after a good game. When Auburn beat Alabama or Georgia there was a lot of cash changing hands.

I guess as the word got out, other athletes of other teams felt they were being slighted and not compensated enough for the success of their team and also demanded to be paid. They never considered all the things schools proved them for free verses what normal students would have to pay for. Some schools still travel to games using chartered busses instead of private planes. But the athletes don’t care. They just want their money.

Maybe athletes should be treated as employees and make them pay for everything. Let them pay for their healthcare, private trainers, gym weight room facilities, their food, an apartment to live in, their classes and books.

Treat them like entertainment . Treat them like a Taylor Swift concert. Give their agent/manager a contract for 6 appearances! Sell tickets, and let the manager worry about paying his performers. And let his performers worry about getting in shape. School? If they actually want an education, let them pay for it like the rest of us do.

 

[KentuckyBoiler]

Just like it has been for years for some schools, they had NIL deals before the NIL was official. They will continue on, even if the NCAA were to get rid of them.