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Turning the Corner
Listening to College Gameday this morning, one of the greatest television programs ever created, and heard the panel discussing a wide range of NIL topics. A great opportunity to respond to some elements of the discussion. The current event which prompted the discussion was the UNLV quarterback who quit his team this week. The background…
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The Sherman Tank
Ok, not the actual tank used in World War II, but to the NCAA in the year 2019, it felt like they had been run over by a tank. The tank had a name, which was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which was passed all the way back in 1890. This law still acts as a…
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Budget Realignment
Over the past several years, spending to attract college recruits has risen along with athletic department budgets. Recruits have historically valued college coaches and facilities in selecting universities. Coaching salaries have risen dramatically and capital budgets have exploded with low interest rates and campaigns to build new facilities. However, I believe we are about to…
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NCAA in the Clouds
The NCAA has been driven by a self-perceived moral compass, which they refer to as protecting the ideals of amateur athleticism. In this ideology, student athletes compete in athletics for the love the game, and in pure motivation, free from any monetary motivation other than perhaps a scholarship. I will not attempt to explore or…
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NIL is not NIL
I believe that most people who follow college sports, and in particular college football and basketball, already realize the fallacies underpinning NIL. NIL was supposed to grant college athletes the ability to earn money from their name, image or likeness. The original commentary conceived of athletes getting paid for various types of sponsorships or inclusion…
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The Angle
If I am honest about it, it has always seemed a stretch to me that universities could financially benefit from their student athletes, without limit, in exchange for merely granting a scholarship. The guise for this logic was “amateur athletics”. This blog is not an attempt to fully explore the pros and cons of the…
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A New Era: NIL and college sports
What started with Ed O’Bannon (formerly a UCLA basketball athlete) when he sued the NCAA in 2009, ended in June 2021 when the US Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA cannot bar athletes from earning money from their “name, image or likeness”. Except this may actually be closer to the beginning of change resulting from…
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