re: Official Portal Thread

The other interesting complication to this will be once they become employees. NIL I assume will still be treated like now with outside parties determining value and not the university. Meaning the university will still not be involved nor should they.

But if athletes become employees via contracts the powers to be may be able to lock in the value of those contracts via caps, years to meet, and so forth. That might be something that the conference powers can come to terms with via CBA that may not force issues with the Sherman Act. Though courts are already ruling in favor of the athlete that prevents the NCAA from forcing players to sit out as it will hurt their value under the Sherman Act.

Though we know those caps will be a lot higher then current scholarship and annual stipends they currently get. Which will also be more money that has to be paid to non revenue athletes as well.

Right now programs are benefiting from NIL as they do not have to pay it and it comes at no financial cost to them. But putting athlete under a bigger financial contract over what athletes are currently getting may be a financial strain many programs can not afford. Not every athletic department is operating in the black. I posted in another thread recently that showed a&m actually just recored a loss overall.