NIL VS. Howls and Bellyaching not stop American trade – and don't expect Congress to stop you because college athletes can't write their own rules, investigate their scandals, or control your developers (let alone coaches) and turn to Washington to be saved from the net, inefficiency, and inefficiency.
Yes, they are asking for help from Congress, a difficult move for a desperate business model. Earlier this week, SEC and Pac-12 commissioners urged politicians to enact a law of unity so that they would no longer be held hostage by the country's laws, images, and the like.
There is further concern that California is committed to making college athletes employees of its universities, which the institution strongly opposes. In the background, there is an outcry from football coaches about how the NIL has turned (predicted) into pay-for-play programs when school sponsors buy high school students or disrupt players on other teams.
The players' families and the players themselves are very excited about their new freedom of movement and trade. Even the boosters don't complain. In the past, some / most of their donations have been to buy bad coaching contracts or to build a locker room and small players' golf courses. Maybe to help the working-class family feel better. So, who knows how much drag all this will get in Washington.
It is a complex debate to ask lawmakers to get involved in a "debate" based on generally older, wealthy people giving money often to the young and the poor. The thing is not that college football doesn't exist anymore. Some players will compete with teams that they would not have had if they had not been leaders. Next, maybe the different groups will win a little (or lose a little) more.
Also, wake us up when a parent asks for "supervisors." Hello Senator, please stop these college enhancements in making our family rich. "We observed as the players entered the transfer link to be paid to play..." It's not surprising. Famous athletes do more than the coach in paid sports, often with great prominence.
Aaron Rodgers is expected to receive an estimated $ 50 million next season. So why not have a rich market for top talent in college football? In December, Kelly took over the transfer window, escaping Notre Dame before being relegated to the club for a fee to pay for LSU training. Money was not the only thing that motivated him. He also sought a new challenge, a change of venue, and a school he thought had a better chance of winning the tournament. Hypocrisy? Kelly seemed more concerned about incoming players making more money than returning stars. "That's not right in your locker room," he said. That seems to be the case for the coach – or the LSU booster issue – is not the cause of administrative law.
Unlike Kelly – or Nick Saban or Kirby Smart or anyone else – they do the same with their administrative assistant or their protective coordinator or, hell, the school president or governor of the country. The point of separation is much of this. Pittsburgh wide receiver Jordan Addison decided to log on to the transfer site last weekend, allegedly by someone or someone linked to USC.
Addison is a star, and he could join the Trojans and earn a solid guaranteed salary by doing promotional work. That isn't very pleasant for Pitt's fans, but that's also healthy. Last season, two coaches close to Addison – Pitt's offensive lineman and comprehensive receiver assistant – left the program this off-season to seek the highest paid jobs in Nebraska and Texas, respectively. No one made a noise. And Pitt even worked on a new quarterback portal (from USC) and a wide receiver (from Akron).
So why can't Addison do the same? The NCAA can and should enforce its rules of disruption as much as possible, but this will always be easy to workaround. And is it worse if the boy is given options? Maybe Addison wants to stay in Los Angeles and prepare for the NFL squad by playing the happiest coach (Lincoln Riley) and the talented quarterback (Caleb Williams).
Transferring Addison is a minor problem – a problematic break for Pitt. For the most part, he is still going to play college football. College sports had decades to make gradual changes or work with athletes to compromise. Instead, it dragged its feet and maintained a firm line, despite losing public support, political sympathy, and prosecution after the trial until a 9-0 defeat in the Supreme Court.
"There is no other place in the United States where businesses can avoid agreeing to pay their employees a fair market rate because their product is defined by not paying their employees a fair market rate, "writes Justice Brett Cave." So maybe they are trying to rewrite the law here to better manage their new reality, which a court has ordered. It will not be easy.
Trying to get the toothpaste back into the pipe is not only complicated but is also almost impossible. Feds can provide one level, but how do you limit trading between two organizations (player, booster) that are not your employees? That is why the Supreme Court unanimously agreed. That is why provincial legislatures in places like California and Mississippi have pushed. Cory Booker and Marsha Blackburn work together regularly on NCAA issues.
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