re: Tide Football Thread in honor of TidalSurge

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Auburn’s won’t have live broadcast

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Washington DC “Round table” happening today:

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TideSports.com@TideSports·18m
Retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban lamented the state of college athletics, saying what he believed in for 50 years "no longer exist."

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Ross Dellenger@RossDellenger·2h
Alabama AD Greg Byrne in his opening address at the roundtable on Capitol Hill: "If it weren’t for football, we would not have 21 sports at the University of Alabama. We do not want to see college sports lose women’s sports and Olympics sports."

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I also say this as someone who wants women’s athletics to continue. That’s not my gripe. I just hate these fake “free market” types who have a selective soap box.

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JaMarcus Shephard talks decision to join Kalen DeBoer at #Alabama

"It's Alabama. Enough said. What else is there to talk about? It's the University of Alabama. Why are you guys here? It's Alabama."

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Potter Tweet

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Nick Saban advocated for revenue-sharing for college athletes Tuesday at a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz to discuss issues related to name, image and likeness, and the future of college sports. But the legendary former Alabama football football coach believes a reform model that would make the athletes employees of universities is the wrong path for the future of college sports.

"I'm for student-athletes being able to share in some of this revenue. I think the No. 1 solution to all this is if we could have some kind of revenue sharing proposition that did not make student-athletes employees," Saban said. " ... I think that may be the long-term solution. I think you could create a better quality of life for student athletes, you could still emphasize development, personal, academic, brand, and athletic development, with a system like that. And it would be equal in all institutions. Somebody couldn't go out and raise more money at one school to create a competitive advantage over another."

Saban was joined by Alabama Director of Athletics Greg Byrne, student-athletes, an NIL attorney and others with perspective on NIL's impact on college sports. Currently, athletes can profit from NIL agreements under varying state laws, or in some cases, no state laws, but do not share in NCAA revenue.

Byrne agreed with Saban in warning against the employment model. He noted the tax burden that would be placed on athletes for the benefits they receive from universities if they became employees. He also said that non-revenue Olympic sports could potentially be cut.

"It's the Olympic sports that would be in jeopardy, and that's men and women. If you look at the numbers for us, at the University of Alabama, with our 19 sports, outside of football and men's basketball we lost collectively almost $40 million," Byrne said. "And we funded that through our revenue from a football and men's basketball standpoint. ... There (would) have to be decisions made because there is not an unlimited supply of money."

The NCAA is facing multiple lawsuits that could fundamentally change the relationship between colleges and student-athletes, including revenue sharing.

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You’d know Lying Ted would find a way to strategically weasel into the camera frame.

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You’d know Lying Ted would find a way to strategically weasel into the camera frame

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Can we please not pull this bullshite and have the next 3 pages be a political rant.

Did we hear more from Saban during the spring?? I feel like it was more than KD is doing pcs.

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I say this as someone who doesn’t love what NiL has become but also as someone who hates people talking out of both sides of their mouth. You want to eliminate programs and budgeting and positions designed to foster inclusivity throughout the campus but you want to watch the pockets of a players ability to make money because it might shutter the field hockey program?

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nobody said they wanted to eliminate those other sports, they said that if it goes like it had been they will have to, because they dont generate the revenue that would be needed to pay the athletes in those sports. And its true, title 9 lawsuits will abound demanding equal pay to womens water polo that mens football gets, and that will be the end of womens water polo.
Thats exactly what the courts would rule when those cases come along, and then you are down to only collegiate sports that can support paying the players.

what is being requested/discussed is perfectly reasonable. you have to be able to enforce rules in a sport. right now, the rule enforcing body is getting sued and losing every insane case that comes along no matter how unreasonable the position of the athlete or school. if there is going to still be a sport, you have to have codified NIL at the federal level, the rule enforcing body has to have protection from all these crazy lawsuits. You cant have anything approaching fair national competition with each state one upping themselves on crazy nil laws to try and give their own schools recruiting advantages. i would think anybody could see that.

so that leaves only the federal legislature.