Jaxbuck said:

No one is leaving mid season and we have had a couple of different MLB players recently threaten to sit out the post season if they were traded somewhere without getting the contract extension they wanted.

I think the sport will be fine, it's the people in the business of sports (especially this bold new world of college sports) that are going to have to come to grips with the reality that the players have the leverage.

To future cast a little bit on your point of a CBE...that is the step after the league forms, is the only employer for your skill set and gets some kind of anti trust exemption as I understand it (not a lawyer). If kids don't form a union, the owners can collude, limit pay and just cut the kid off from the herd. You'll take what we offer because there is no other game in town kind of thing. Google, Amazon etc can't do that

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dragurd said:

I mean there are many good reasons this model doesn't work for sports. I mean how long would the NFL survive. If Patrick Mahomes could have left for the Seahawks mid season etc etc.

There needs to be some form of contractual compromise for sports to work as whole. Usually that ends in collective bargaining with enforceable rules and contracts. But I'm not sure you will get enough kids to agree when the courts basically have said it's like Google Amazon etc.. why would they give that up and how would you even collectively bargain when makeup of your sport changes so rapidly. What happens 2 years after a contract is struck and it's all new kids and they don't agree with what their forebearers agreed to?

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Jaxbuck said:

ok, well you are back to the original spot of limiting how/how much a player can get for their NIL then.

That door is already closed. You can't do it. The NCAA has shit to do with it.

If I am a contractor doing work for Google and someone from Apple wants to pay me more and is willing to bonus me the cost of breaking my agreement with Google....you want to have some enforcement over that? I'm supposed to have my earning potential limited?

It's just a legal contract. The player hasn't been sold to the entity that pays him for the use of his NIL. The only recourse is whatever is written in the contract.

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TampaBuckeyes said:

While I agree with you that it all sounded stupid and unenforceable from the start, this was the result of a court settlement, not just an arbitrary NCAA rule. So I would assume that the district court judge made sure the settlement abided by the Supreme Court ruling.

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Jaxbuck said:

Many, and I mean many, people knew that idea wouldn't fly from day 1. It's an attempted work around to limit the kids ability to earn. SCOTUS was very clear on this.

I remember the conversation here about it and feeling that anyone who tried to play by those "rules" was just being a dumbass. Looks like our Prez/AD/whoever may be on the dumbass list.

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TampaBuckeyes said:

It was supposed to if you read the house settlement.

Basically they were trying to cap pay for play for 20.5M, that can come from the schools and/or NIL collectives. Students are allowed to get additional NIL beyond that if it was doing legitimate advertising work and it can’t be tied to playing for a certain school.

They set up the clearinghouse to make sure that the NIL money students get over that amount is for legitimate work and at the market rate (you can’t get $1M from a local dealership by doing one appearance).

Nearly $80 million worth of NIL deals cleared by College Sports Commission

Nearly $80 million in name, image and likeness deals were cleared by the College Sports Commission from June through the end of August.

www.usatoday.com

It appears as though the commission is rubber stamping most of the deals. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of deals forget to be submitted (who is going to police it) or are being made and then the money never shows up.

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ScriptOhio said:

Just sayin': It looks like Ohio State is looking for a Jersey patch sponsor for 2026....

Ohio State Planning to Sell Jersey Patch Sponsorship As Part of New Deal with Learfield

Learfield announced that Ohio State is “engaging brands that are highly interested in pursuing a jersey patch partnership” as part of its deal with the sports marketing company.

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Ohio State Planning to Sell Jersey Patch Sponsorship As Part of New Deal with Learfield​

Sponsored jersey patches could be coming soon to Ohio State’s uniforms.

As part of its announcement on Wednesday that it had agreed to a multimedia rights contract extension with Ohio State, Learfield revealed that Ohio State is “engaging brands that are highly interested in pursuing a jersey patch partnership with Ohio State in anticipation of the NCAA rule change.”

“As one of the most celebrated schools in college athletics, boasting 36 sports, a jersey patch opportunity with Ohio State would represent one of the most highly coveted sponsor partnerships in college sports,” Learfield wrote in its news release.

Sponsored jersey patches could be coming to college sports as soon as the 2026-27 season. Sports Business Journal reported last week that the NCAA’s Division I Cabinet is slated to discuss allowing sponsored jersey patches during competition at next week’s NCAA Convention. While no vote on the potential rule change has been scheduled yet, there is “optimism” that sponsored jersey patches will be allowed next season, according to SBJ.

Multiple schools have already sold jersey patch sponsorships in anticipation of the change. LSU agreed to a jersey patch deal with Woodside Energy* in October, while UNLV announced last month that it had struck a deal with Acesso Biologics to be its first official jersey patch partner.

Wednesday’s announcement comes as part of a contract extension between Ohio State and Learfield, a college sports marketing company that works with many of the biggest brands in college sports. Per SBJ, Ohio State’s new deal with Learfield “includes a three-year extension through 2036 and will see the parties enter a revenue sharing relationship designed for Ohio State and Learfield to capitalize on one of college sports’ most prominent brands and sponsorship machines.”

“It’s a critical juncture in college athletics, and this is the ideal time to lock arms with Learfield, to continue to provide best in class opportunities and lead Ohio State Athletics for a long time into the future,” Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork said in a statement. “Learfield’s expertise brings a full range of capabilities that allow us to continue to maximize the largest sponsorship program in the country through even more commercial activity that impacts revenue and further capitalize through innovative sponsorships and NIL strategies, which help strengthen our entire athletics program. We are proud to continue our long-term affiliation and transformational partnership with Learfield and continue to maximize the Ohio State brand power here in Ohio and across the country.”
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* https://frontofficesports.com/lsu-signs-multimillion-dollar-jersey-patch-deal-before-ncaa-approval/

LSU Signs Multimillion-Dollar Jersey Patch Deal Before NCAA Approval​

Just sayin': Silly me, I thought Nike was the jersey sponsor. In addition to the B1G patch, you play in a bowl game like the Cotton Bowl, now you have a Goodyear patch. Before too long the jerseys are going to look like something in NASCAR...... OK, besides "Chico's Bail Bonds"... who do you think would be a good jersey patch sponsor?

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buckeyemania11 said:

That's for the schools themselves to pay, isn't it? Was there anything banning outside collectives/forces from paying players on top of it?

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Nearly $80 million worth of NIL deals cleared by College Sports Commission

Nearly $80 million in name, image and likeness deals were cleared by the College Sports Commission from June through the end of August.

www.usatoday.com

ScriptOhio said:

Just sayin':

1. It will be interesting to see how binding these NIL contracts are and/or how they play out in the courts. Reportedly Damon Wilson/Missouri and Georgia are suing each other too.

2. Obviously the NCAA is worthless and afraid to do anything concerning NIL; however, they need to institute some standard language for NIL contracts and make them binding (unless both parties agree to dissolve the NIL contract). Any violation of a NIL agreement by any school/player not honoring a signed NIL agreement and any school tampering with a player that has a known NIL agreement at another school should be a major NCAA violation and subject to the appropriate disciplinary action(s).

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