Random college football thread

ND is not getting the NIL money they need from their tight ass donors and fan base so now they are "worried" about college sports. They are also worried they might get left out as this whole things breaks apart. Of course they would want the NCAA and Congress to get involved. I want neither parties involved and look forward to the dismantling of the NCAA.

https://www.si.com/college/2023/03/23/notre-dame-ad-jerry-swarbrick-calls-stronger-nil-ncaa-collapse

 

I look forward to that Supreme Court case if he gets his wish.

 

9-0 with a broken folding chair

 

He is providing all kinds of talking points for schools recruiting against them. Basically telling kids they don't deserve this much freedom to get paid.

 

They don't get to enfringe on a person's rights to their own name and likeness, it is very simple.

 

Well at at the end of the day, for the schools outbidding these yankee dorks, it just means more.

 

https://theathletic.com/4340398/2023/03/23/notre-dame-oped-ncaa-nil-laws?source=user-shared-article

Andy Staples really wears out ND in his piece.

 

Andy gets it

 

Let's check in with how the NCAA fared in their latest installment of "don't pay the players" -

(Spoiler - not good)

 

It sincerely may be the least legally controversial matter in the history of the country.

 

And the more they fight it, the worse it gets for the NCAA. They don't know when to just stop digging. Their time is over, good riddance and I want to be the first to piss on their grave.

 

A good time to remember this passage from one of Spencer Hall's best pieces ever:

Pay them. Pay them what you owe them. Pay them because the worst American tradition is taking things that aren't yours and calling it destiny or virtue or principle. Pay them because there is no nobility in keeping someone a dollar poorer than they have to be in exchange for honest work. Pay them because any system that deliberately makes people poorer is one of designed cruelty, even at this relatively small scale. Pay them their [dadgum] money.

 

The Florida rep saying something today about keeping student athletes, student athletes really rubs me the wrong way. No one is concerned with keeping students, students given the debt crisis and near necessity for students to also work.

 

Someone enlighten me as to why this would be the case assuming the NCAA would lose. It seems to me that student athletes being declared employees would open Pandora's box for at least some of this stuff.

 

Going to need a bit more context

 

Unless I misread, the article made it seem like that should the case be returned to the original judge and then the NCAA lose the case, the student athletes could be ruled as employees but not eligible for any of the quoted things before. I would think unionization at the least would be on the table. Some of the others maybe would not be a requirement, but I don't see how contracts would be off the table either.

For that matter if the NCAA had just allowed contracts years ago with some minimal pay, they would be in a better position today to maintain the level of authority they want.

 

I don't see how that is possible for them to be "not eligible" as a matter of blanket fact. If NCAA counsel said it, I don't believe it on its face and will need more.

 

I think it has to do with the facts of this case itself and what they are arguing for.

Basically, think of this as step 1. And a quick glance says it has to do with NLRB rules.

 

I don't mean this hyperbolicly: it sounds similar to the arguments against ending slavery. "Who will feed them? Where would they live?"

 

Literally, basically from what I can tell is that they would not be covered to form a union yet. Because it didn't make sense to me either, but that's what a quick research of it did. I don't pretend to know ins and outs of labor laws.