NIL Cap. It won't mean what you think it means

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The NIL Cap is coming, we all pretty much agree.

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No I don't think we do

If Ohio State wants to overpay some untested QB, so be it. I would rather they clamp down on in-season tampering and limit the number of times a player can transfer.

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Then explain the collectives

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The collectives are what happened when NCAA completely folded after the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was about the NCAA’S rules forbidding the athletes from benefits whatsoever from his personal image. NCAA wouldn't even let athletes work part time. They had no way of having income while being a student athlete.
Meanwhile the schools of course where making billions collectively.

The ruling allowed the student athletes to make money off their image.
In order to avoid possible future suits, or more accurately, to avoid any responsibility in creating NIL policies concerning schools participation in paying athletes, NCAA completely folded, hoping for legislative answers.

The schools paying athletes directly or through collectives wasn't a result of the ruling, it was a result of NCAA completely folding on the issue

First of all, why would players agree to a cap? They benefit from the crazy spending.

Second of all, any CBA would have to include athletes other than football and basketball. Why would they want a formalized structure that entrenches their sports as second class?

Third, the schools are terrified of player strikes and for good reason: right now college players get WAY less of the revenue pie than NFL or NBA players get.

The only solution is Congress bailing the schools out by creating a new class of non-employee unique to colleges.

In the end, it's going to look like it did before NIL.
Talent with accumulate to the teams with the most money.
People are going to be willing to pay millions to 5 and 4 star backup players to keep them off rival teams.
And, 4 and 5 stars will be willing to ride benches for multiple millions of dollars over playing for single million

Caps coupled with a toothless NCAA that has no ability to curtail bag dropping is a horrible idea.

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First of all, why would players agree to a cap? They benefit from the crazy spending.

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Why do players ever agree to a cap? Because it is part of an overall negotiated deal. And you provided the bargaining chip in your second to last sentence. The schools can offer more revenue to the players. And there are plenty of other negotiating points. Healthcare, drug testing, what constitutes a suspension, transfer windows.

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Second of all, any CBA would have to include athletes other than football and basketball.

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What legal basis do you have to claim that football and basketball can't have their own CBA?

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Who's we?

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Those who have congnitive thought

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The NIL Cap is coming, we all pretty much agree.
But this Cap will apply only to the schools and the school affiliated fund raising efforts.

The antitrust is going to be about what whatever any person or business not associated or coordinating with the school pays star athlete whoever to appear in their advertising.

There may be some rules about independence advertising not including anything like a school apparel such as a jersey, but the ability of the athlete to have income outside the school won't be limited.

NIL is about the person's Name, Image and Likeness. NOT the school's.

Anything that tries to limit a person from benefiting from their own Image or name will never survive

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I really don't know what you are generally talking about in this thread to be honest.

The only thing that can be capped are salaries, and that's just part of whatever revenue sharing stuff they've been cooking up. Actual money the schools may start giving the players, nothing at all to do with NIL.

NIL is not going to be capped, nor can it be capped. It's not capped in the NFL either. The only thing capped in the NFL are salaries. Nothing ever prevented Tom Brady from doing Gillette commercials while playing at Gillette Field. And all those other commercials and NIL deals you see happening in the NFL aren't capped either.

The only power the NCAA has or will have is control over the schools and boosters. So as someone mentioned, perhaps they can not allow a booster to pay NIL to players, unless there is fair market value and a valid reason for it. Similar to how players could have jobs in the past, but had to work them etc. They can't restrict the players NIL, but they can restrict boosters via punishments of the schools like in the past. They should have done that from the start to prevent collectives, I was surprised when they didn't because the rules already existed.

Otherwise, there is no such thing as NIL Cap and there isn't one coming. It's impossible because legit NIL isn't a deal that involves the schools at all.

Yep curious to see how this plays out because only a few players have very big NIL value in reality and most are getting paid because that big booster wants to win games. Some of these big boosters are claiming they are going to back off on NIL quite a bit due to them being able to pay out of revenue now but we will see if that actually happens to a big extent.