NIL Things - All Sports

[red_n_black_attack]

Instead of coach taking penalties to next job, make offending coach ineligible for period of penalties

[bearcatbret]

Red--n-black, I agree with you on your topics. Since they make sense, it will never happen. I just do not know how to put the genie back into the bottle. I do not blame a kid for wanting to leave a college if his coach/coaches just left. I like the idea of having the coach stay through the bowl season for the players and university. Just think how it would minimize the domino effect. I think that coaches that get into trouble with one school should be required to take the sanctions with him to any new school. However, I do not think that there are any defined rules to break anymore. It is the wild, wild west and everything goes.

[red_n_black_attack]

I wish the new NCAA President will do at least the the top two things from this list:

1. Carck down on pay-4-play. My suggestion is simple: You the athlete have every right to your NIL for merchandising or endorsements, so go get an agent that specializes in NIL to handle all of your above board deals. The university nor any booster or booster organization may not take any part in finding NIL opporatunities, or making payments to student-athlete. Any university or booster involvement will subject university, athletic dept, staff, and faculty penalties and fines up to and including loss of 75% of scholarships for a five year period and/or fines up to 75% of total media revenue for each year in which a violation occurs.

2. Student athletes do not have to sit out a year or lose eligibility the first time he/she transfers. Subsequent transfers will require athlete to sit out of all athletic activities for one year after enrollment with loss of algibility.

3. The transfer portal will only be open for all sports for a 45 day period from mid-May through the end of June, exact dates vary each year.

4. Coaches are under contract through the end of post season within their sport. Any university or booster or agent for university or booster that contacts a coach about an opening or potential opening prior to end of that sport season will be subject to tampering penalties which include penalties and/or fines up to and including loss of 75% of scholarships for a five year period and/or fines up to 75% of total media revenue for each year in which a violation occurs.

4a. Concurrent with rule above, active coaches may not be relieved of coaching duties once a season begins until the end of the post season in that sport except for breach of contract related to morals clause, violation of university policy(not related to won/loss performance), and/or violation of any NCAA rules violations. It is up to the university to decide if suspension or being relieved of duty is warranted during the season

[Lobot]

Article on Cincy Reigns from Andy Wittry

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/cincinn...-cincy-reigns/

[GoBearcats31]

https://theathletic.com/3916775/2022...shared_article Cincy Reigns launches as NIL collective for Bearcats athletics

Cincinnati's athletic department is adding another significant avenue into the name-image-and-likeness space with the launch of the Cincy Reigns collective on Monday.

Cincy Reigns, which has been in the works for several months, is founded and chaired by Brian Fox, a local lawyer and graduate of UC College of Law who has been a supporter of Bearcats athletics and is known among fans for his Bearcat Sports Radio social media persona. The collective intends to benefit Cincinnati athletes from all sports, is in alignment with the university from a mission and compliance perspective and has the support of coaches and other major stakeholders within the athletic department.

[Lobot]

Updated guidelines have been issued by the NCAA Board of Governors today.

https://theathletic.com/3733149/2022/10/26/ncaa-division-i-nil-guidance/

https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/NIL/D1NIL_InstitutionalInvolvementNILActivities.pdf

[GoBearcats31]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/recruiting/story/_/id/34769258/bronny-james-5-hoops-players-land-nike-nil-deals

Nike has finalized NIL endorsement deals with five top amateur basketball players, headlined by LeBron James' son, Bronny James of Sierra Canyon High School.
...

In addition to Bronny James, Nike also finalized NIL deals with Iowa point guard Caitlin Clark, Stanford guard Haley Jones, Sierra Canyon High School star guard Juju Watkins, and top 2023 guard D.J. Wagner of Camden, New Jersey.

[Lobot]

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/10/...athletics.aspx

Longtime University of Cincinnati sales and marketing professional Greg Harrell has been hired by Altius Sports Partners (ASP) – the Name, Image and Likeness launch program for elite athletics departments – as the full-time, on-campus General Manager of UC Athletics' exclusive NIL program. Harrell, who previously served in UC's Office of Innovation, will lead the Bearcats' NIL strategy, education, and new athlete business opportunities.

They sold him short. He used to be head of ticketing for both UC and FCC in other previous stops

[GoBearcats31]

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/10/3/general-greg-harrell-named-gm-of-altius-sports-on-campus-nil-department-at-cincinnati-athletics.aspx

Longtime University of Cincinnati sales and marketing professional Greg Harrell has been hired by Altius Sports Partners (ASP) – the Name, Image and Likeness launch program for elite athletics departments – as the full-time, on-campus General Manager of UC Athletics' exclusive NIL program. Harrell, who previously served in UC's Office of Innovation, will lead the Bearcats' NIL strategy, education, and new athlete business opportunities.

[bearcatbret]

From this article about College Basketball: Candid Coaches: How do you feel about the state of college basketball in 2022? - CBSSports.com Concerned

• "(There are too many) commissioner- and president-driven decisions that put basketball in the hands of football-centric decision-makers more than ever. (You have to) run your program with a front office/coaching mix, in that order, and you'll be able to compete. (You have to) get one or two administrative people that have a genuine seat at the school's decision-making and priority table -- and then you have a chance. Without that, you'll be run over by football decisions and entitled boosters."
• "No direction or leadership. We need a college basketball leader that sits and works with the head of the NCAA. Also got to start thinking of college basketball without football. Might not be a bad thing. Proactive, not reactive."
• "We are the only sports entity where every day is free agency."
• "Initial meetings with kids now, it used to be about, 'Am I going to start, how much playing time am I going to get?' Now that's the last thing on the list. The portal, that whole thing is a disaster. Tampering is a disaster. These things are good for the student-athlete, but the ideal and what it's supposed to be is all great, but that's not what's happening right now. How do you build rosters, teach lessons, fight through adversity?"
• "Every rule has taken control away from the coach and given it to the teenagers. Every new rule is anti-program building but pro-individualistic. The coach has less control over his program than ever before."
• "NIL combined with transfer portal combined with Overtime Elite and the G League Ignite combined with conference realignment (because of football and TV revenue) combined with a lack of leadership in NCAA makes for very unstable ground. If you don't know where you want to go, any road will get you there. Feels like we don't know where we want to end up with all of this."
• "We don't have great leadership from the NCAA and need a strong personality with great knowledge about the college basketball landscape to provide guidance at a pivotal time."
• "The transfer portal is the least of my concerns. I wouldn't say that if I was at a mid-major. But NIL is the biggest. To boil it all down, every organization and every entity comes down to leadership. We have a leadership vacuum at the NCAA level. I think we've got good leadership at the NABC level. I think Craig Robinson's doing as good of a job as he can do. We need absolute autonomy as a sport and we have to figure out what's best for our sport as a whole. ... The problem basketball coaches run into: the presidents want men's basketball to be treated just like every other sport and we're not like every other sport. We're different than field hockey, baseball, lacrosse. I think every sport should be given that autonomy to some degree."

[Lobot]

Nice to see Kroger getting involved here. All female athletes got an NIL deal from Kroger yesterday.

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/cincinn...hletes-kroger/

[Lobot]

The NIL marketplace for student athletes is now open.

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/8/23/cincinnati-athletics-launches-bearcats-nil-exchange.aspx

[Lobot]

Steve Berkowitz at USA Today is report the Senate will have an NIL bill introduced today by Sen. Machin and wait for it......Tommy Tuberville. The bill would be Alston compliant and I'm fuzzy what that entails exactly but here's the text and sceenshot.

https://twitter.com/ByBerkowitz/status/1554896806860947456

[swilsonsp4]

Here's an espn.com article regarding a questionnaire that they submitted widely across the CFB landscape. It deals not only with opinions of NIL, but realignment, the future of the NCAA and other issues. It's a long piece:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34307234/what-future-college-football-200-coaches-players-administrators-respond

[Lobot]

ON3 reporting on the Altius Press release.

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/altius-...-nil-in-house/