Posted on 12/30/2025 6:38:16 PM PST by impimp
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been trying for years now to get more regulations around name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college sports, saying back in 2023 that the landscape was "in peril."
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The post pointed out that the Iowa State Cyclones, who just lost longtime head coach Matt Campbell to the vacant Penn State Nittany Lions job, only has 17 players remaining on their roster for next season. Among those players, only one was a starter.
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I’m more concerned with what they are teaching and the DEI black box admission process.
Late in the last century, I was almost hired to tutor athletes at Cal State Fullerton, where I was working on a master’s degree in library and information science. However, because the program was technically administered by San Jose State University, Cal State Fullerton couldn’t hire me—it would have violated some arcane NCAA rule.
They care alright. The entire racket is Government communist racket monopoly. Including the forced insurance “bowls”, center aisle grocery store sponsors. Everything you see on dei commercials.
All the taxes paid by these athletes, go right back into the Communist retirement and salary plans.
These so called “schools” are State run government communism. And the follow up, so called “draft” into the NFL are mostly tax break/funded com-une (commun-(ity)) stadiums
What you watch tonight is all hard-line siphoned communism.
Conditioning and deliberate, including feed delay “safety” to keep out true freedom of the airwaves.
And so far, with an exception of finally getting rid of illegals, Trump is knee deep in it, AI and all.
The Armed Services academies are among the few whose players play for love of the game with little hope of pro prospects.
And the least communist thing in the whole university system is the football team…so politicians like Cruz are pro-communism and that is why he is trying to interfere in football so that gets a little bit more commie.
Mississippi State Coach Mike Leach, who died much too young, predicted that this would lead to college football officially becoming the minor league of the NFL. With college players receiving pay. The farce of most of them being student athletes would end. Maybe fans would be happier if his vision was implemented:
“It is here where we introduce the late, great Mike Leach, who had a whopper of plan a couple of years ago that was scoffed and laughed at — and now, in these ever-changing days of the sport, looks incredibly insightful.
A year after the NCAA threw open the barn doors on NIL and free player movement, Leach explained to me an idea he had for optional learning tracks for football players at major universities.
“We can ignore the reality of the situation, or we can face it and do something about it,” Leach said.
For far too long, the NCAA has been allowing it.
Leach’s plan is simple: there are two academic tracks for football players at major universities. When a high school recruit signs a letter of intent, he chooses the specific academic track — student athlete, or learning professional.
Leach estimated then that the student athlete track is for about about 90 percent of players. That was before the explosion of NIL and projected revenue sharing. The student athlete number may have drastically decreased since.
The student athlete track consists of the current benefits and a stipend, which would now be revenue share. Players can’t be cut for playing ability, but can be cut for breaking rules. No trades, no draft.
But there’s a carrot dangling out there: if players graduate in four years, and play all four seasons of eligibility at the same school, they receive a significant retention bonus.
If players transfer at any time, or don’t graduate, they’re ineligible for the retention bonus.
“I don’t like taking the degree out of the equation,” Leach said. “Degrees help lives, help families, help generations.”
Then there’s the learning professional track, the group of players Leach said more closely align with the current explosion of NIL and player movement.
It begins with a deadline for high school players to declare the learning professional track, and once it passes, there will be a draft. That’s right, a draft.
“Every other league does it,” Leach said. “The crummiest sports league or the best, they draft. Little league has a draft.”
And that’s part of the gamble for young players. If you enter the learning professional track, you can be drafted by any school.
You aren’t choosing your school, they’re choosing you. This brilliant move also brings parity into the equation.
Another unintended, yet wildly positive, consequence of Leach’s plan.
“There’s no bargaining and extorting (NIL) money from schools, playing one against the other,” Leach said. “Like hell, you will. Not here. We’ll call you when you’re drafted, and you’ll know what team you’re playing for.”
There’s no cap on NIL money, and a player can make whatever the market will bear. Players can be cut at any time for any reason, just like the NFL. Players can be traded.
Players can move freely between schools annually, but within a one-week window after the season.
The learning professional track will include academic courses that directly affect individual growth. Finance and investing, kinesiology, psychology, and the like.
“Everyone wants guardrails to this deal,” Leach said. “Well, here they are.”
For decade upon decade, the NCAA has been a reactionary body. Never leading, always reacting to the latest lawsuit ― and losing nearly every single time in every single major lawsuit involving player vs. university.
The NCAA isn’t coaching it, it’s allowing all of this unraveling of the sport to go unchecked.
Maybe it’s time to change course.”
It’s rooting for the laundry.
No boss and I love what I do.
USC cancelled this series for four years to appease their coach Lincoln Riley, because he thought a loss that late in the season wasn't good for his team's playoff hopes. Now, if he gets fired in the next few years, it will definitely be back on. For now, they appeased the coach. Riley had the nerve to come out and blame Notre Dame. But now that Notre Dame is not eligible to be in the playoff going forward, maybe that will change.
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