Too many different NIL laws per state

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Need a national nil law that states nil contracts cannot be tied to a player playing for a particular school

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We need exactly the opposite of this, actually.

It's a private transaction under capitalism. There shouldn't be any law restricting it at any level.

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The only thing that'll dry up the collectives would be to institute a draft/algorithm system that would eliminate the ability of boosters to influence a recruit's school choice.

This is already done w/ medical school residencies. No reason big-time college athletics can't be run the same way.

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The answer is to make them employees with contracts that forbid them using their association with the school for commecial purposes and keeps them committed unless both parties consent to them leaving. This is not going to happen because the schools want their free labor more than they want any kind of fix.

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Classic liberal calling for federal govt to run everything and infringe on states’ rights

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I get the need for state's rights but when the vast majority of your "business" is between 2 teams where one has literally crossed state lines, this insistence on each state doing it their own way creates an uneven playing field and a lot of chaos. I am not for some federal law on this but you need cooperation between states to get this thing a bit more standardized.

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That won't solve a thing other than take things back to the way they were. There would still be reason for boosters to give illegal inducement to recruits to get them to go to their school.

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There has never been a way to stop that. There has never been a way to stop gamblers from paying players and coaches to shave points and throw games. People bent on breaking rules have always found a way to do so without much risk.

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So, this chaos won't normalize until some sort of collective bargaining agreement is reached. Contracts, revenue sharing, stricter portal windows (thinking freee agency in the NFL). Am I way off on this, as I don't claim to be be a labor law expert?

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I'm not a lawyer either but I think you are spot on. The top 40 or so programs can afford to pay a salary. They aint willing. They have had a free labor force for so long they just can't see their way clear to doing what they should have been doing for at least 40 years.

I know people will say that they receive an education as a salary and some of them do no doubt. The problem with that is those costs are merely entries in a spreadsheet. It doesn't cost a dime for the school to add 85 desks in classrooms across campus. It costs the average student a heaping pile of money to sit in that desk BUT it costs the same if there are 20 in the class or 30...those extra desks don't cost a penny. Even WalMart would be ashamed of that business model....

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Need a national nil law

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No

You keep talking about schools paying athletes. Remember schools will have to pay ALL athletes. Only 2 sports really makes money that supplements the other programs. Do you really think schools can afford this?

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It's a private transaction under capitalism. There shouldn't be any law restricting it at any level.

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oh, I'm so very liberal, go check me out on the poli board. Every private financial transaction you partake in every day is restricted or regulated at every level of government, and if there were absolutely no regulation it would be absolute anarchy and we would be having great depression level catastrophes regularly. Completely unregulated capitalism is just as bad as pure democracy (ask Socrates how that turns out).

Unfortunately a national law is the only thing that can reign in all these state legislatures that are passing ridiculous nil laws that make it impossible to have a rational nil sphere that also allows for an amateur athletes to profit while allowing an an amateur sport to exist and allow the governmening body of that sport to actually enforce the rules. These contracts definitely effect interstate commerce, so they fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government

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Unfortunately a national law is the only thing that can reign in all these state legislatures that are passing ridiculous nil laws that make it impossible to have a rational nil sphere that also allows for an amateur athletes to profit while allowing an an amateur sport to exist and allow the governmening body of that sport to actually enforce the rules

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Knoxville just declared itself an NIL sanctuary city.
Checkmate.