At the University of Texas, football players drive Lamborghinis.
Posted on 06/07/2025 9:39:04 AM PDT by Round Earther
College athletics is officially entering a new world.
A California judge on Friday night a little bit past 9 p.m. ET granted approval to the NCAA’s landmark settlement of three antitrust cases, often referred to as the “House settlement,” ushering in an era where schools are permitted to share revenue with athletes within a new enforcement structure led by the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.
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This will actually hurt the NFL since most of the top college players will die in very expensive car accidents.
This will actually hurt the NFL since most of the top college players will die in very expensive car accidents.
At the University of Texas, football players drive Lamborghinis.
UCONN women’s basketball will pay better than the WNBA.
This will be funny to watch. Division I college sports just died.
That’s what I expect to happen.
I’m sport free from now on. I’ll go watch high school
I believe she told them several times that they can’t put limits on the amount of outside NIL that a student-athlete can earn. They have done exactly that (set up a clearinghouse to approve or reject outside NIL deals). She probably approved it just to get it off her docket.
The clearinghouse will be declared illegal, at some time after the first time they reject a deal.
Then you would also support a College Players Athletic Union, which would be the next logical step.
To assert that NCAA athletes require a labor union to navigate compensation negotiations is to fundamentally misunderstand the evolving architecture of collegiate sports.
These athletes are represented by agents, individuals whose livelihood depends on the maximization of their clients’ value and who are well-equipped to negotiate complex NIL agreements.
When athletic programs offer compensation, agents will extend their representation to those negotiations as well, ensuring individualized, market-driven outcomes.
I'm not asserting anything. I'm merely point out that the next step in this debacle is the formation of unions.
Where have we seen that before?
The NBPA Players Union
The NFLPA for pro football
The MLBA for baseball........
Be careful what you wish for dude, paying college athletes to play, over and above the tuition, room and board, will be the destruction of college sports.
And maybe even your own kid who might be good enough to play college ball........
You want them paid too? After all, they could be considered farm teams for the colleges and ultimately the pros..........
If a blue-chip football recruit is presented with a choice between an athletic scholarship, complete with a meal plan and a shared dorm room at Southeast North Dakota State and an offer from the University of Texas that includes a full scholarship, $750,000 annually, a $5,000 monthly housing stipend, a personal chef, and the use of a Lamborghini, he is entirely free to choose either.
This is the marketplace functioning precisely as intended: athletes, now recognized for their economic value, can evaluate offers based on their own priorities, be it tradition or compensation.
Does this mean we don’t have to pretend that they’re “student athletes” anymore, and admit they’re in the farm system?
I think of them as paid mercenaries. They perform to attract the money from suburbanites at their schools. Look at a college football game. The stands have more chicks than dudes.
For student athletes, the opportunity to earn a college degree remains a central and valuable component of their experience.
Yet it is important not to conflate the mission of an academic institution with the commercial operations of its athletic department, particularly in revenue-generating sports.
In major programs, coaches earn millions, networks pay billions, and a constellation of vendors, trainers, and institutions profit from the spectacle. It is both reasonable and just that the athletes, whose labor, talent, and marketability drive the entire enterprise—share directly in the economic benefits.
To deny them compensation in the face of such widespread monetization is to perpetuate a system that profits from their performance while shielding itself behind the veneer of amateurism.
Like there was a “real” education (for most) going there anyway . . .
Paul Finebaum on the Dan Patrick Show Full Interview | 06/09/25 - “The NCAA is essentially dead.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4OMAsWq6Q
A $2.8 billion settlement will change college sports forever. Here’s how...
https://apnews.com/article/ncaa-house-settlement-aa3169056e8194aeebf34495641bce0b
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A key component of the settlement is the $2.7 billion in back pay going to athletes who competed between 2016-24 and were either fully or partially shut out from those payments under previous NCAA rules. That money will come from the NCAA and its conferences (but really from the schools, who will receive lower-than-normal payouts from things like March Madness).
Because football and men’s basketball are the primary revenue drivers at most schools, and that money helps fund all the other sports, it stands to reason that the football and basketball players will get most of the money. But that is one of the most difficult calculations for the schools to make. There could be Title IX equity concerns as well.
The settlement calls for roster limits that will reduce the number of players on all teams while making all of those players — not just a portion — eligible for full scholarships. This figures to have an outsize impact on Olympic-sport athletes, whose scholarships cost as much as that of a football player but whose sports don’t produce revenue. There are concerns that the pipeline of college talent for Team USA will take a hit.
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