Its underway.
Should’ve been in place 8 months ago. I just hope we can catch up in time
No one could have seen this coming...
It’s crazy that Ruiz has 111 deals with Miami but we can’t or won’t get Weisman to do the same with us. Our compliance offices should trade notes or something.
Exactly what I was thinking - unions will be next. The upset within teams bringing in what we used to call ‘ringers’ , renting players for a year or so, will only continue increasing since big $ are involved. Pandora’s box is just starting to open. All these actions and the resulting reactions are only beginning.This K-State writer made an insightful point that player unionization may be the only hope at regulating the Wild West or the NIL era, because the NCAA may be too afraid to act.
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“This is the new world, ladies and gentlemen. Once the decisions — morally correct ones, by the way — were made to give athletes the freedom to profit from their own image as well as choose to transfer, the barn door was completely blown off its hinges. There is no meaningful regulatory prescription for this that doesn’t impinge on the athlete’s right to market themselves, and no meaningful way to prevent schools from using businesses as proxies to recruit.”
“The long and short of it is this: if the idea of competitive balance is that important, the only — only — solution is the unionization of athletes. That will allow for collective bargaining between the NCAA and the players in order to potentially restrain this Wild West chaos. Until then, buckle up and get used to the new paradigm.”
Could be true, just trying to figure out why Cuse as a school is so behind on NIL. Weisman said in the past he’s willing to help in recruiting battles but maybe JB/compliance is stopping him from helping financially or maybe he doesn’t want to dish out that much $$$. Maybe JW realizes how behind we are and is publicly saying something is happening to save his ass.
If Miami can’t get NIL money to Wong then what market can? It seems like the NIL is only going to benefit SEC and blue bloods, this is turning into a disaster quickly.
He’s getting it - he’s saying he wants and deserves more
Yeah, but for the kid even saying this is still ridiculous. This is turning into a one year fantasy league where the best players can go to the highest bidder.
As Swarbrick commented in the piece linked elsewhere, that is not what NIL was supposed to be, but what it has very quickly become.
I doubt Syracuse (and a bunch of other schools) will ever have deals like this.
Another impact of this is coaching, if a great coach loses players in $NIL$, especially this late in the game and has a bad year the following year how is it fair to the coach to be on a hot seat? Coaches are losing control over their roster, doesn’t seem fair.
