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re: Honest discussion about NIL. Would love to hear thoughts.
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:56 am to BevoBucks
Posted on 4/24/24 at 10:56 am to BevoBucks
quote:Collective bargaining will not solve the NIL problem. No sport that has collective bargaining limits what athletes can earn in sponsorships and such because it would be an anti-trust violation. Think about it. Imagine the NBA telling LeBron you can only earn $X in sponsorships.
The only route to reintroduce rules are the few SEC/B1G programs who can afford to breaking away, classifying players as employees & collectively bargaining with unions. I don’t like it, but haven’t seen any other model that will stand up in court. It’s that, or go be a fan of a smaller school which is still somewhat amateur sports.
The only way to get around this problem is for Congress to pass an anti-trust exemption of some sort for college athletics. That seems very unlikely.
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Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:09 am to twk
quote:Legally, you’re right. Kids can still sign NIL deals & there will always be a few deep pocket boosters willing to do their own thing. But, practically, very few kids are brands on their own. So, hiring 1099’s will no longer be outsourced to the collectives. Many of those resources would flow again through university athletic departments.
Collective bargaining will not solve the NIL problem. No sport that has collective bargaining limits what athletes can earn in sponsorships and such because it would be an anti-trust violation. Think about it. Imagine the NBA telling LeBron you can only earn $X in sponsorships.
This post was edited on 4/24/24 at 11:25 am
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:10 am to twk
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Collective bargaining will not solve the NIL problem.
Neither will State Rights. As quickly as the court system opened this can of worms, the States have been busying themselves trying to create advantages in their version of NIL. There are no real advantages to unregulated greed, just more chaos.
Tennessee and Virginia are 2 of the latest trying to reinvent NIL for personal gain. Others will simply follow suit if they perceive an advantage. Unregulated greed through State Rights is not the business model I would recommend for long-term stability in college sports.
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