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I think we have it partially because of that game.

Only in every other industry than College Football

Nobody says Beli doesn't know how to write a contract!

Last night was declared a mass casualty event with over 15 people in the hospital or at the stadium medical facility. At least one was seen carried off on a stretcher. Pepper spray was needed to break up fights in the crowd.

Have seen statements that several FSU players were injured but that does not appear to have been confirmed by FSU at this time.

NIL does nothing to impact the fan experience

The fans are being asked to pay part of the tab.

I agree on conference realignment. These leagues are too big. It leads to unbalanced schedules and "easier" paths to the playoffs. Not to mention going years without games against conference opponents. The fact that multiple schools have scheduled games against conference opponents as non conference games demonstrates how stupid all of this is.

But again, this feels like taking both sides of the argument:

Side 1: players should be compensated fairly and allowed to organize under a CBA or similar arrangement.

Side 2: well, since they aren't technically employees or an organized group, they should be able to do whatever they want, be compensated how they please and no restrictions or common sense practices should apply to them at all.

I just fail to see how..."well there's really no rules, so fuck it" approach is helpful to anyone. Again, the people that are really benefitting from this system are Lawyers, "NIL agents," and seedy business types like Ruiz at Miami that are playing both sides of system.

A few players are amassing significant amounts of income but the vast majority are probably getting only a modest amount of money, being led around from school to school by dipshit Business School Students functioning as "NIL agents"---have no true prospects of ever playing in the NFL and are getting no functional or useful education. Meanwhile the burden of supporting this system is falling upon the donors, fans, and taxpayers that support these schools.

I don't call this progress.

Yea but they stuff is all codified. And lawyers challenge non-competes in court all the time, just like this guy.

It would be like any of the developers on my teams to want to partake in training exercises to get certifications but adamantly refuse to do hands on coding and still demand to get their full pay.

no they shouldn't have been that high, and that will get further validated this evening when bama plays georgia. I dont expect that to be a very close game.

I'm a little more concerned about how bad things could get tonight... UVA, who just beat the #8 team, lost to NC State a couple weeks ago.

"Does VT just give in and give the full payment?"

Would doing so set a legal precedent that would be used in other cases forcing all schools to do so? I highly doubt VT wants to be the one to open that Pandora's Box.

Sure, and even in our capitalist economy, we have laws that prevent companies from using their market power to artificially limit wages.

This is also not universally true...our laws currently allow companies to enact Non-compete clauses and restrictive covenants that absolutely depress wages and restrict workers to move freely.

Right...but at some point shouldn't common sense win out here?

Is there really "ambiguity" that once you no longer function for an organization you should still be compensated?

There's a difference between testing the system and filing bullshit lawsuits that you know will be paid out simply because it costs more to go to court than to just settle. This is the equivalent of ambulance chasing.

And let's get past the bullshit argument that Heitner put forward (player wanted to stay and practice for a year). The kid was 100% leaving VT and just wanted to have a feasible way to call himself part of the team and continue to get paid.