Posted on 04/18/2024 10:47:48 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a bill Thursday that will allow universities in the state to pay athletes directly for NIL endorsements.
Before putting his signature on the bill, Youngkin said HB 1505, which won't take effect until July 1, helps Virginia schools be competitive in athletics and provides a level of added oversight: ESPN's Dan Murphy noted it's the first piece of legislation by a state that would nullify the NCAA's rules regarding how athletes are compensated for NIL deals.
Rather than schools paying student-athletes NIL money directly, they've often leaned on independent collectives in which major boosters and fans pool their resources to attract talent. Murphy noted how there's still much to be resolved between now and July 1.
"If the NCAA does not change its rules before July and a school decides to sign NIL deals with its athletes, the state could then sue the NCAA if the association attempts to penalize the school," he explained. "The NCAA has previously told ESPN that in cases where a law that contradicts NCAA rules is permissive — allowing a school to do something rather than mandating that a school do something — the association expects schools to still follow NCAA rules."
If recent history is any indication, the actual consequence of HB 1505 isn't what it will do in Virginia specifically but how it incentivizes others states to follow suit. In June 2020, Florida became the first state to pave the way for college athletes to be compensated within an NIL context. Lest others fall behind in the recruiting arms race, more states began pursuing their own NIL legislation to a point where the NCAA had little choice but to lay out an overarching framework in June 2021.
"If this law gets us closer to a federal or a national solution for college athletics, then it will be more than worthwhile," Virginia athletic director Carla Williams said, per Murphy. "Until then, we have an obligation to ensure we maintain an elite athletics program at UVA." Murphy wrote that athletes still won't be considered employees of a school if they're receiving a direct NIL payout under the new Virginia law.
How about High School, Jr. Hi, Elementary, Kindergarden?
Those aspiring sports kids in pre-school are being short changed!
Colleges and universities had a great scam going until the NLRB ruled athletes were employees and had to be compensated.
That ruling resulted in much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Ivory Tower.
When do the salary caps kick in?
College sports are dead.
Other than lacrosse and an occasional basketball team, college sports have been dead in VA for some time now.
All the good HS recruits go south or to PSU.
Super leagues here we come
It would be upsetting to be paid nil. Isn’t there an applicable minimum wage?
However, these professional ball players need to move their industry off school campus.
Then create something new: college teams made entirely of law-abiding students studying at the university.
I wonder how many little leagues games will be on ESPN this year.
fwiw the local HS had a FB game televised on ESPN-
they were paid $1200 for it. They had to chase ESPN for six months to get paid. The contract blocked the kid’s from broadcasting the game too. Ofc ESPN retained all broadcast rights.
While some may not agree with a lot of this stuff-
ESPN exploiting children is the worst of it. IMO
What a can of worms the NCAA opened with NIL.
It’s total chaos now. Many athletes will be transferring every year to a new school/job.
“Then create something new: college teams made entirely of law-abiding students studying at the university.”
This is really new only in the US. Foreign countries have been paying their players for years with free schooling paid for by MLB and a living stipent. Remember the old Russia Olympic basketball teams that were allowed members of the Russian military? Many counbtries did this. Another example is Cuba.
Some of the most proposterous are the latin countries that have been using “schools” to teach reading and writing in the morning and using retired professional baseball players and coachs in the afternoons. And this has been going on since the 1950’s. They can sign at 16 and be totally baseball from there on. As of this writing, all 30 of the MLB teams, for instance, have academies in the Dominican Republic. And the main source countries are Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, the DR, and Cuba. So what’s the difference between the SCOTUS saying the colleges need to reimburse the athletes for commercials and not just paying them outright? The SCOTUS case that determined this was the Alston versus NCAA case.
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So?? Are you opposed to non-athletes being able to change jobs?
If Virginia allowed this two years ago, Michael Vick wouldn’t have had to make money doing dog fighting. LOL
IMHO it should be up to both the student athlete and the college (or booster at the college). Right now, the transfer rule forbids the college from saying, "I'll pay you X dollars as long as you stay with us 3 years, otherwise we get our money back." If both the student and the college were free to negotiate the terms, NIL would be fair for both sides.
Which professional team sport allows an unrestricted free agency like we now have in NCAA? Answer: none of them.
Wow. I didn’t know that.
What are the wages/salaries for college athletes?
I don’t know but the labor relations board said the athletes need to be compensated if the team makes the university money and the university can’t prohibit outside work, say being in a promotion for Nike.
Universities are overwhelmingly Democrat so it makes sense they’re upset they have to pay their help. Guess they forgot the lesson Abe Lincoln taught them.
I would think the colleges would want the boosters to pay.
The colleges directly paying the athletes is the beginning of the end of women’s sports. Football and men’s basketball make money; women’s sports do not. The women will demand equal pay and the revenue is not there.
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