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Should semipro/college players be paid, or allowed to sell their stuff? (NIL and Revenue Sharing)

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DaddyBigBucks said:
It might not be what we grew up with... I mourn the loss of that right along with the rest of you. But it didn't fall apart because of the NCAA's incompetence (though that certainly did not help). It fell apart because its foundation was built on concepts that are not compatible with individual liberty and rights and run counter to the basis of our nation's legal and economic systems. To be honest, I find it remarkable that it lasted as long as it did.

Part of me mourns the past... the same part of me doesn't like what it is right now. But all of me looks forward to what it will become, because I think the Buckeyes are as well situated for that future as anyone (and yes, because it will allow the athletes (rather than just Disney and their like) to benefit from their talent
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I agree with all the parts you agree with. It's like... What's better: what you want, or what is right? You or I or anyone can go out and create some software or write a book or a song or make a thing or whatever - and get paid whatever it's worth. And what is it worth? It's worth what the buyer and seller agree it's worth. No more, no less. Should college football be any different? If you say, "yes", then why is it different? I can't say that it's different.

Is Player X worth $2,000,000 before he steps foot on campus? He is, if he finds someone or some people who are willing to pay him that.

But it's against the antiquated way college football has always been run.

And I think someone on here years ago once explained why things are the way they are. Something like, colleges in the early 1900's wanted to separate themselves from the "lower classes" at the time. Only "low class poo-heads" would be low enough to get paid to play sports. We're fancy-schmancy awesome intellectuals who will all go off to become business owners and doctors and lawyers and politicians and other nerds... we don't need to get paid to play sports. It then evolved into, "We need to keep everything fair - no paying college athletes."

So, I think we need to allow the players to get paid. But, it's going to (and already has) change what we grew up loving. Your word might be the right one: "Mourn". Many of us will mourn what we used to love. But I can't argue that rules preventing the paying of players is "right".
 
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mattynokes said:
Don't allow first year players (true frosh and transfers) to receive NIL money and put in some stiff penalties for both the player and school, if they break it. I don't know if that's the answer, but I would think that it would at least stop the pay for commitments/visits and help steer it back to the intent of NIL.
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I'm guessing that there would be a lawsuit over that and (the way similar cases are going) the fresh and transfers would win.
 
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Just sayin': I don't know who this guy is; but it is only going to get worse. Hell, Jaden Rashada supposedly had a signed NIL agreement with Florida (i.e. their NIL Collective) for several million and he wasn't going to get paid.
 
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Sources: Big 12 first to settle House v. NCAA case

The Big 12 conference became the first named party in the House v. NCAA case to vote to settle that case and related anti-trust cases, sources told ESPN.
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Big 12 first to agree to settle House v. NCAA case, sources say​

The Big 12 conference became the first named party in the House v. NCAA case to vote to settle that case and related antitrust cases, sources told ESPN, forging a path to a new era in college athletics.

Big 12 presidents and chancellors voted virtually Tuesday afternoon to unanimously approve, with departing members Texas and Oklahoma abstaining. The 12 continuing members from this year's conference all voted to pass. The other four power conferences and the NCAA board of governors are expected to vote in the upcoming days. The settlement is widely expected to pass, which will chart a new course for college sports in establishing a framework for schools to share millions of dollars with their athletes in the future and create a fund of more than $2.7 billion to pay former athletes who were not allowed to sign name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.

Sources have consistently indicated to ESPN that there's little resistance on the conference level, and the NCAA is also expected to pass the settlement measure. (The Pac-12 will vote as a full 12-team league, as currently constructed, as they were when the House v. NCAA case was filed.)
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Sources: NCAA board votes to accept settlement

The NCAA's Board of Governors voted Wednesday evening to agree to settlement terms in the House v. NCAA and related antitrust cases, sources said.
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NCAA board votes to accept antitrust settlement, sources say​

The NCAA's Board of Governors voted Wednesday evening to agree to settlement terms in the House v. NCAA and related antitrust cases, sources told ESPN, joining three power conferences thus far in moving forward with a historic change for the way college sports are operated.

The Big 12 and ACC voted to accept settlement terms Tuesday, and the Big Ten joined them Wednesday. The remaining two defendants named in the lawsuit -- the SEC and Pac-12 -- are expected to vote to approve the terms as well later this week. The NCAA's board did not vote unanimously Wednesday, a source told ESPN.

The NCAA board vote was expected but perhaps looms more significantly symbolically. The board voting in favor of a settlement that would allow schools to pay players represents a formal severing of a decades-long tether to unpaid amateurism.

The settlement terms state the NCAA will provide more than $2.7 billion to former athletes over the next decade for back damages related to the association's name, image and likeness restrictions, according to sources. The conferences also agreed to create a forward-looking system that will allow schools to pay roughly $20 million per year in permissive revenue sharing to athletes. Those direct payments, an unprecedented paradigm shift in college sports, would likely begin in fall 2025.

By settling, the schools and the NCAA avoid going to trial, where they could have been on the hook for damages in excess of $4 billion if they lost, which legal experts considered a likelihood considering the NCAA's recent poor record in court cases. According to sources, the plaintiffs will also agree to dismiss two other pending antitrust cases against the NCAA that could have potentially added billions of dollars in damages to an already daunting total.
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The NCAA and its five power conferences have agreed to allow schools to directly pay players for the first time in the 100-plus-year history of college sports.

The NCAA and its leagues are planning to alert plaintiffs' attorneys Thursday that they are prepared to move forward with a multibillion-dollar agreement to settle three pending federal antitrust cases, sources told ESPN. The NCAA will pay more than $2.7 billion in damages over 10 years to past and current athletes, according to sources. Sources said the parties also have agreed to a revenue-sharing plan allowing each school to share up to roughly $20 million per year with its athletes.
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Steve19 said:
This will be the end of college sports as we know it.
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I feel like NIL was the end. This is just another nail in the coffin. Need to just break football away from the rest of college sports and let everything else go back to the original regional conferences. It won't save college sports, but it will help return the non-revenue sports to a state of normalcy.
 
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