Posted on 02/23/2024 6:32:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
A preliminary injunction could be a boon for college athletes. A federal judge ruled on Friday that the NCAA cannot enforce its name, image and likeness rules that block student-athletes from negotiating deals with boosters.
The ruling would allow those athletes in the recruiting process or in the transfer portal to negotiate NIL deals without breaking NCAA rules. Judge Clifton Corker wrote on Friday that “the NCAA’s prohibition likely violates federal antitrust law and harms student-athletes.”
“While the NCAA permits student-athletes to profit from their NIL, it fails to show how the timing of when a student-athlete enters such an agreement would destroy the goal of preserving amateurism,” Corker added.
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Good question, nick
The cash cow sports pay sizable portions of the university budgets at the ones that are successful?
In before the NCAA member schools should reap the rewards!
More $$$ to folks that hate our guts and after all degrees leading to burger flipping are worth their weight in gold.
Exactly.
Great news for athletes and even better news for Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Texas, Georgia, LSU, and Alabama.
And if your team is not in the SEC or Big 10, your team is not going to exist in ten years.
What else are you going to do with sociology instructors..
Fans, boosters and school administrators can stop this silly charade of pretending they care if the starting QB for the Alabama Crimson Tide and the All-American defensive end for the Michigan Wolverines are actually students at those universities.
College should be strictly for amateurs. If an athlete receives money for his/her performance they become professionals and not eligible for college play.
Whatever happens, James Franklin will still go 10-2.
“Why even have college sports?”
It made sense when the athletes could read and were primarily there to get a REAL degree.
I attended a small division three school. There were no athletic scholarships, and there were strict academic standards maintained. We were still fairly competitive in a lot of sports. I don’t know of anyone who went on to pro level in any sport though. Probably because they had real degrees in real subjects.
Stop the bullish!t charade of “student athletes”. Most of them can’t read at 6th grade level anyway so just sign them to a contract like the NFL.
Why even have college sports as part of universities?
“It made sense when the athletes could read and were primarily there to get a REAL degree.”
When was that?
Before our time...but it did exist, I knew one who graduated from ESU before WW2 and played football as a starter...and could read (and did a lot more than that).
But I agree...no longer the case for the past 40 or 50 years.
” I knew one”
Their is always one. But the rest, never.
Why even have college sports?
Well, down here in Texas we won’t all go out on autumn Saturdays to watch physicists.
At the University of Texas, there are football players that drive Lamborghinis.
Their back-up QB has an NIL worth $4 million.
It is no longer about the letter jacket, and sock hop, it is about the money, there are only a half dozen schools in the country that can compete with a Lambo.
“Their is always one. But the rest, never.”
No doubt more than one (who could read), but then again it was almost 100 years ago...
“ Fans, boosters and school administrators can stop this silly charade of pretending they care if the starting QB for the Alabama Crimson Tide and the All-American defensive end for the Michigan Wolverines are actually students at those universities.”
For a single year at times because it pays to portal
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