NCAA official response to CA: State’s 58 member schools would be ineligible to compete

NCAA flexing

a more up to date response

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NCAA statement on Gov. Newsom signing SB 206
September 30, 2019 10:44am
As a membership organization, the NCAA agrees changes are needed to continue to support student-athletes, but improvement needs to happen on a national level through the NCAA’s rules-making process. Unfortunately, this new law already is creating confusion for current and future student-athletes, coaches, administrators and campuses, and not just in California.

We will consider next steps in California while our members move forward with ongoing efforts to make adjustments to NCAA name, image and likeness rules that are both realistic in modern society and tied to higher education.

As more states consider their own specific legislation related to this topic, it is clear that a patchwork of different laws from different states will make unattainable the goal of providing a fair and level playing field for 1,100 campuses and nearly half a million student-athletes nationwide.

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Key word.

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2023=eventually

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As more states consider their own specific legislation related to this topic, it is clear that a patchwork of different laws from different states will make unattainable the goal of providing a fair and level playing field for 1,100 campuses and nearly half a million student-athletes nationwide.

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Because the NCAA and the conferences dont already navigate 50 different sets of commerce laws.

Shorter the NCAA: Guys, just stop for a minute so we can spend the next 20 years catching up in hopes that you’ll all have cooled on the idea by then

It could. But more likely it means that when the law is enacted the NCAA will go through the typical process of investigating claims that athletes are using the law to their advantage which will take another year or two and then bring sanctions. It’s the NCAA, it’s going to drag out especially as the interests of other major universities around the country change

It’s just more fodder for antitrust suits that have been in the works for a while

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hat's what California wants. They're going to bring a law suit if/when the NCAA follows through on this threat.

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A suit for what? The NCAA isn't enforcing any laws that restrict the student athlete from making money. They simply rule them ineligible to compete in their organization and take advantage of their platform. What right does the government have to force an organization to allow or sponsor unfair competition against its will? The NCAA has decided they want to be an organization that supports and maintains amateur athletics. They don't want to be the NFL. If players want to be professional athletes, they need to join a professional league.

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NCAA trying to seem like they’re taking a strong stance when really they’re going to get bullied into changing and they know it

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I took it as a subtle way of the NCAA giving CA an out without them having to bring Title IX into things.

Those same politicians pushing this would be punished especially harshly for threatening Title IX in a state like CA.

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I believe I have read that they're going to sue on anti-trust grounds. Whether or not that will be successful, I do not know.

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The NCAA will simply say it’s not their fault the NFL hasn’t amended their football rules to reflect those of MLB and the NBA, allowing football players to be drafted out of high school.

If the lawsuit is about allowing players to be paid, the correct defendant is the NFL.

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It’s their organization and within their right to declare teams ineligible who break organization rules.

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The problem is it's a hollow threat and the NCAA knows it. New York and Florida are about the pass similar laws. What then? The NCAA is going to cave, that's what.