A collection of links on the latest and greatest of the ever changing world of college basketball and compensation.
1) https://www.espn.com/college-sports...on-clarifies-valid-business-purpose-nil-deals
Article about the first actions of NIL Go. It is still early in the morning and so my comprehension level is low, but it sure seems like some of the things I have seen recently (ie players promoting the Collective on the socials) would not meet the standards described here.
Also found it interesting that some of the high profile schools have already disbanded their collectives (ND, Alabama, Georgia).
2) https://sports.yahoo.com/college-fo...ermit-booster-collective-deals-010341870.html
This is the comment that rings true for me from the article above :
“For how long have people been begging for guardrails?” Sankey asked. “Well, now we have guardrails. Those broadly across the country that claim they wanted guardrails need to operate within the guardrails. If you allow what’s happened to continue to escalate, there would be a very small number of programs that would be competitive with each other and we’d not have a national sport or a national championship.”
3) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/64...ement-enforcement/?source=user_shared_article The fight to stamp out pay-for-play in college sports: ‘The lawsuits will start flying’ (may be a paywall).
I really hope logic prevails and the additional pay-for-play loophole is closed. The players are going to be compensated by the schools to play. It is just agents looking for another cut on dollars.
1) https://www.espn.com/college-sports...on-clarifies-valid-business-purpose-nil-deals
Article about the first actions of NIL Go. It is still early in the morning and so my comprehension level is low, but it sure seems like some of the things I have seen recently (ie players promoting the Collective on the socials) would not meet the standards described here.
Also found it interesting that some of the high profile schools have already disbanded their collectives (ND, Alabama, Georgia).
2) https://sports.yahoo.com/college-fo...ermit-booster-collective-deals-010341870.html
This is the comment that rings true for me from the article above :
“For how long have people been begging for guardrails?” Sankey asked. “Well, now we have guardrails. Those broadly across the country that claim they wanted guardrails need to operate within the guardrails. If you allow what’s happened to continue to escalate, there would be a very small number of programs that would be competitive with each other and we’d not have a national sport or a national championship.”
3) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/64...ement-enforcement/?source=user_shared_article The fight to stamp out pay-for-play in college sports: ‘The lawsuits will start flying’ (may be a paywall).
I really hope logic prevails and the additional pay-for-play loophole is closed. The players are going to be compensated by the schools to play. It is just agents looking for another cut on dollars.
