NIL Things - All Sports

[Lobot]

This was bound to happen eventually. NIL based lawsuit by a player against a university.

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/jaden-r...tract-dispute/

[leo from jersey]

Before we get many comments - Hello Pot - hello Kettle for urban's statements. Many think thank.

[leo from jersey]

Urban Meyer on the Lou Holtz podcast via Eleven Warriors

“America is built on name and likeness,” Meyer explained. “If Lou Holtz or Urban Meyer or Marvin Harrison Jr. and C.J. Stroud want to go use their name and help sell cars or help a business, that’s great. But to have a 17-year-old demand money for a visit or to pay these players a lot of money to go visit a charity for 20 minutes and they write a check for $50,000, that’s cheating. That’s not what this is all about. I’m very disappointed in where it went.”
After some back-and-forth banter with Holtz, Meyer criticized the role of collectives in college sports.

“If you’re a woman basketball player like the great girl from Iowa (Caitlin Clark) and they want to put her on a billboard and pay her, they should be able to do that,” he said. “But that’s not what happened. What’s happened is the arms race of collecting money from donors and the donors are simply paying players. That’s what I understand is happening, and I don’t like that.”

But let’s face it. That’s the reality in college athletics.

[Lobot]

Good article today on how all this process works from the Athletic. ($)

https://theathletic.com/5484900/2024/05/13/college-football-transfer-portal-nil-deals/

[bearcatbret]

May 13 big "513 Day" Cincinnati Athletics Partners with Cincy Reigns for 513 Day, Other Initiatives - University of Cincinnati Athletics (gobearcats.com)
There are other articles out there as well.

[Lobot]

Can anyone make an intelligent guess as to the monetary value of a typical NIL deal for basketball?

I have heard that we have one player with a 300K deal but I don't what the terms are. Length etc.

[DesertFog]

Can anyone make an intelligent guess as to the monetary value of a typical NIL deal for basketball?

[leo from jersey]

From tonight's WLWT5 news. UC among top universities in helping student-athletes land endorsement deals (wlwt.com)

this is groovy.... Can't wait to see the fruit of it. It has to be huge in order to beat that team a few miles to the North.

[bearcatbret]

From tonight's WLWT5 news. UC among top universities in helping student-athletes land endorsement deals (wlwt.com)

[Lobot]

Done deal, Dartmouth has a union.
NLRB certifies union to represent Dartmouth basketball players - ESPN

I need to read up on this more but I'm curious how this works from an Ivy League perspective since they don't offer scholarships. Does this even translate well to scholarship athletics on other conferences?

[bearcatbret]

Done deal, Dartmouth has a union.
NLRB certifies union to represent Dartmouth basketball players - ESPN

[bearcatbret]

100 Female Student-Athletes attend a NIL event. 100 Female Student-Athletes Receive NIL Deals at Second Annual ‘In Her Likeness’ Event - University of Cincinnati Athletics (gobearcats.com)

[bearcatbret]

Donor fatigue ($)

https://theathletic.com/5321481/2024...nors-nil-fans/

I believe that the donor fatigue is probably true. However, most of my friends and family are not that interested in following anything outside of the game itself. They do not know what NIL is or the employee-player model, or even TV revenue. This is especially true with the tosu fans that I know.

[Lobot]

Donor fatigue ($)

https://theathletic.com/5321481/2024/03/07/college-football-donors-nil-fans/

[bearcatbret]

I think that you may see more employee-athletes being fired due to performance. I wonder how this would have affected Colorado's off season last year where coach prime got rid of more than half of the team. In the PAC, the university must continue to pay for the athlete's scholarship if they somehow get cut from the team. With the new employee status, would that eliminate the requirement to continue to pay tuition for the fired athlete? This whole thing just creates a whole new can of worms.