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You're really not gonna like when Stewart gets ripped.
Interesting that Harbaugh (John) got fired for not making post season. Apparently his agent had 7 calls fifteen minutes after the news broke.
Alabama in the market for a transfer QB as Ty Simpson announced he intends to go pro.
DC would have used much more colorful words. But he and the poster were both about the shit show that is NIL and pay for play.
I agree but can see Bill getting in a room and then laying it off on how different a model the NCAA is and forced him to divide his time to so many other aspects outside of coaching. The Jordan Hudson part alone should put every team NFL and NCAA on high red flag alert.
I think this is a good analysis of the situation, it is in flux. Short term, I think there are teams that will build a new team each year from the portal. If they have the finances, are good at portal recruit analysis, and have a coach who excels at instant team chemistry then it is the right thing to do. However, long term this approach will fail if nobody is developing the kids.
Another weird scheme might be that we end up with a single power conference with divisions for a reasonable championship path. All the teams which don't make P1 become developmental teams, sources of developed payers for the P1 teams. In order for this to be attractive, the P1 school would *also* pay the developmental team when they come get a player.
It would be the death knell for non rev sports because once they are employees, Title IX no longer applies.
This is where the NCAA has failed time and time again. There is a simple solution, just make the players employees of the university.
Then they can sign binding multi-year agreements, have penalties for leaving early, etc. But the NCAA doesn't want to do this because the players will get the benefits that employees get and the OSHA protections, etc.
Every other student at a school is able to work for that school (I worked at Donaldson Brown for example). I don't agree with Jay Bilas often but this has been his point for decades and it makes so much sense it will never happen.
I like it. Dependable comment that I have come to enjoy.
Here is another video by the local fly guide down in Swan Quarter:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGjr4Akcj7/
He's fishing out of a Hewes Redfisher and poling sand bottoms sight casting to schools. Doesn't get any better than that. For anyone thinking of going down there, a John boat will work just fine. Look for sand bottoms on the apps / maps and slowly work your way down the bank looking for fish.
Here I stand working at the tying bench, staring my Redfisher out the back door with new steering seals needed. I'm also checking the Colorado snow report as I should be headed west on Sunday for my annual two month winter sojourn, but will likely push it back to the end of the month. It's finally snowing in Utah and WY, but it's BAD in CO. I'll likely push it back to the end of January to drive out and stay out through the end of March, rather than my usual mid Jan to mid March trip. This will allow me to hopefully get back down to Swan Quarter at least once in the next few weeks.
is this better?
Arthur Blank may have wanted Bill but in what world has the last 12 months shown him that "yep old Bill Belichick still has it!"
...this dilemma is also why the NCAA and its member schools have not pushed Congress hard to give them an anti-trust exception. With it would come collective bargaining but also workmans comp/long term disability costs that could force them to use more football money for football.
The ones most likely to lose if the NCAA does reach that level are non-rev sports. If football players become employees then Title IX will no longer apply so the equation of equal sports to school population ratio will be heavily affected if not outright gone because technically ALL athletes would then be employees for every sport. The return on investment calculation could see most schools down to two or three sports if that happens.
Also, who the hell ever wants to leave college? Especially Blacksburg.
PS no preference here
Pretty sure that's been tried and denied in multiple states for FERPA or that they are not public records. South Carolina lost a court case on disclosing but was only required to turn over general revenue share spending data, not individual deal numbers.
I'm less for NIL which has a lot of ways to exploit (im not against the idea of it but there is no way it won't be exploited) but im all for revenue sharing. The orange bowl executes make 7 figures for a single game. The stadium, the vendors everything is there and they just have to rent it and the ln make some t-shirts to sell. Sure there's contracts to manage but they're making millions while making conferences pay to play in the game if they don't sell enough tickets for a match up the orange bowl committee selects.
Bob Stoops won a national title while making less than his wife did selling mary Kay. 25 years later he would be make 8 figures at the same job. The money exploded at the end of the century and the players (which is what we actually tune in to see) were left behind. The value of a scholarship has increased just under 2x in that time but coaches make 10x more. Based on my out of state costs, players should be getting around 250k in balls each year if they followed suit.
If teams shared revenue with players then there could be escalation by year at school so that it benefits players to stay but wouldn't prevent them from transferring if there is a need.
Now if players we getting part of the revenue then coaches probably wouldn't have earned as much but that's a whole other exercise.
I quite enjoy the Wondrousing.
Totally Agree
Quelle surprise
wouldn't what UW pays players just be a Foia request?
I've thought about how to best give the college players a cut of the action with out it being just a scheme to pay players for a certain school and one issue is how do you deal with injuries because players will put themselves in bad positions to make money also what if a starter gets injured the first play, do the still get starter money? how would the backup feel about getting backup money when they play 60 snaps in a game. The set amount for any position has issues in execution.
I dont think there is an easy way either, but i would rather the method not promote playing while likely to further injure one's self
Stop it DCWilson....
You are right though. I doubt UW does anything because it will hurt their reputation more than the contract is worth. And what stops them from now doing the same with some other QB?
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