re: Player Contracts?

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Seeing more people calling for player contracts to stop the players from entering portal yearly to up their money. I see a few problems with this: (1) the same folks who negotiate coaches contracts would be doing player contracts and we have seen how that works out (2) would there be performance standards in the contracts and if so what? (3) could you terminate for good cause and what would good cause be? (4) it would put a premium on transfers who have proven themselves at college level vs High school kids who may not pan out.

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The player contracts are for name, image, and likeness... not playing. Generally speaking, non-competes must be very narrowly tailored and the person signing and must receive compensation. What would the non-compete say? That the player can't accept an NIL deal from another group?

If the colleges themselves try to do it, now you're admitting these are professionals, which is an entirely different can of worms and comes with all of those problems like collective bargaining, revenue sharing, benefits, etc. without even getting into the antitrust issues.

Genie is out of the bottle now.