re: Georgia's Name, Image, and Likeness bill signed into law by Brian Kemp

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This will also be schools paying players for their likeness with jersey sales, advertisements, speaking engagements, etc etc

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I’ve actually watched the Knight Commission breakdown on this and there’s a pretty clear separation of players and schools interacting in any way in this new space. Schools can’t pay active players to sign autographs, etc and players can’t wear the school insignia (some questions over of school colors are allowable) in ads.

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Exactly. The school will lease out the rights for their name, use of the stadium, facilities for tailgating, etc. The school will make money, but ultimately it will be run as a for profit league like a minor league system where players get paid and can go to school if they choose

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Only if the NCAA is completely disbanded and it makes more financial sense for schools to collectively do so. As it stands, TV money runs the world of college sports and TV money wants to package conferences and the larger NCAA which can’t operate if Presidents/schools don’t get together and agree to do things the same way. Incompetent and backwards as it is, the NCAA still exists as a membership because it allows hundreds of different schools to interact in a common marketplace. I highly doubt that element of it ever goes away, even if the rules of the membership change