The next steps in the NCAA demise appear to be coming.
After another courtroom loss, the NCAA has told its enforcement staff to halt investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making name, image and likeness compensation deals with Division I athletes
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What are they supposed to do? Just keep getting sued?
NCAA needs to put all it's time and resources into getting an anti-trust exemption. No point in wasting time and money on a failing pursuit.
The NCAA is already gone, as an enforcement body at least. That's going to thrill some people, and others will rightfully be worried about what is going to happen once the college sports police that everyone loved to hate don't exist.
Either way, I have absolutely NO interest in seeing whatever takes the NCAAs's place get an anti-trust expemption. That would just legalize the SEC/BIG monopoly that they're clearly aspiring for.
I'm not 'thrilled', but I'm not convinced that college football is doomed either. It will be different. Doesn't mean it will be bad. Doesn't mean the magic won't be there.
But it could also be bad. We'll see.
I think it's going to get bad for a while, and then some one big is going to get screwed and they OSUs and Bamas and NDs are going to take a long look at the dhit they helped create and make a change.
Or...hear me out... they just spend more.
What happens if something truly anti competitive like throwing games. Why wouldn't I just pay players to throw games? I can pay a player for anything now through NIL. So what happens if I bet big on an underdog in the playoffs and pay the other players off to throw the game? What happens when Liberty plays off these players and win a championship? Who is going to stop that?
While I think this is a bit far fetched, what's stopping it?
Do not f&*k with Vegas' money.
You're going to see a change if you do.
Q: What's stopping the same thing in the NFL?
A: the players are paid to be on a roster
The fix (no pun intended) is obvious.
I don't think it's the paying players as much as the NFL had the anti trust to punish players or teams if they did that. But you can't have anti trust without employees.
It's still against NCAA rules (maybe illegal) to throw games. That wouldn't change with NIL.
https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/6/28/media-center-di-approves-changes-to-...
What can the NCAA to do as enforcement? They will lose in court over just about anything.
They would be able to suspend/ban players, same as if someone gets suspended for targeting, etc. It's not like I can pay someone to get a targeting penalty in a game, and now it's legal, because "NIL", or whatever.
And throwing a game is, in fact, illegal. Can't believe you made me look up the statute:
The NCAA may not have any teeth, but the FBI and DOJ will put you in jail just like Tim Donaghy. He only had to serve a year in prison , so perhaps it may be worth it.
The MLB has demonstrated that you don't have to be will run, you just need to have the biggest salary cap. Yes sure, every 20 years a small cap team wins it all, but the big boys are fine with getting theirs 19/20 times.
Our biggest threat is a Liberty with a two sets of morals and an endless check book or a Uva old money base that decides to care about sports.
Which poorly run, high payroll team is consistently winning in MLB? The Mets?
Success in baseball, and especially sustained success, requires both well run and a willingness to spend enough. And the largest payroll is never guaranteed success.
It will be interesting to see how the Dodgers do this year with their crazy payroll expenditures from this offseason, but they are really well run with arguably the best draft and development programs in the league.
The small caps have to hit everything just right to do that, though. The big boys can absorb a misevaluation or bad contract or two and still have enough to pay for replacements. It just makes the sailing that much smoother for those with money.
That's where we're headed in college football, boys and girls. *sigh*
Can we stop comparing ourselves to exclusively Virginia schools? It's become pretty clear college football is a national game now and there is no school in Virginia that has the aspirations or talent that I want to be associated with. It's time for us to only be looking at Clemson, FSU, Miami in conference and we can throw in Tennessee for regional comparisons if you wish. If our goal is to be the best school in Virginia we will never win the ACC let alone even dreaming of a national championship. UVA and Liberty shouldn't even be considered threats for us going forward.
Edit: and sorry this isn't meant to be an attack specifically at you. I just see a lot of sights set specifically on Virginia on this board and it bothers me because Virginia Tech should be a program that has playoff aspirations. If our measuring stick is confined to just the state of Virginia that is never going to happen in my opinion. We need to learn to dream bigger.
not dreaming as big as we should be is endemic to a large portion of this fanbase, sadly
Probably a large reason as to why the program is in the state it's in. But we have momentum!