In an interview with ESPN, NCAA President Charlie Baker claims that for the long term sustainability of the NCAA — Congressional action is required.
Baker said that even if Congress doesn't pass an NCAA law before the coming election in November, he will continue pursuing a law into the future. There are multiple legal challenges that pose major threats to the way the NCAA currently operates that could conclude in the next 12 months. Baker said that even if some of those antitrust cases or efforts to turn college athletes into employees succeed, the NCAA will continue pressing Congress for help. "If we don't get it done this year, [we'll] certainly have more examples about why it would be important to take on preemption and compensation and employment and some of these other issues in the next Congress," he said. Baker added there "really isn't a path forward" for the NCAA to solve its current legal issues in a sustainable way without some intervention from federal lawmakers.
Also discussed was possibly increasing the number of teams in the national tournament:
Among other topics discussed with ESPN at the association's headquarters, Baker said he thinks there is an opportunity to expand the NCAA men's basketball tournament -- if it's done with care. Leaders of some of college sports' biggest and most powerful conferences have told ESPN and other outlets in the past week that they would like to press for changes that would allow for more of their teams to have access to March Madness. Baker said he does not support the idea of decreasing opportunities for schools from smaller leagues to make the tournament by eliminating any of the automatic bids those leagues get for the teams that win their conference championships. "Most of the people who follow college sports think the NCAA tournament in basketball is perfect, right? So anything that's done to change it needs to be done with care and consideration," he said.
I was reviewing the Providence Lax roster on the PC athletic web site today because they are FF next opponent. I noticed next to most of the roster names it is posted “NIL”. So I went on further into the Mens basket ball roster and found the same thing. When u click on the NIL for Devin Carter one of the stars on PC for example you see this:
Devin Carter Basketball, Men's Basketball • Shooting Guard All-Star profile 6.7k 106.4k Devin Carter athlete profile head shot
Services
About
Interests For personal use Frequently purchased Shoutout $646+ Devin will record a video for you More options for family, friends, or yourself Post $206+ Devin will post on social media for you Appearance $1,415+ Devin will attend your practice or event Autograph $302+ Devin will sign something for you Pitch Anything $257+ Devin will respond to your custom request For brand or business use
So PC is advertising on their school athletic web site personal services for all of their athletes. Of course the rate for personal services varies by sport and by star quality. The NIL just furthers the gap between the haves and have nots. No longer student athletes.
For those who attended the Canisius home game did you catch a graphic on the center scoreboard during 2H announcing the kickoff of a “ Red Sea Collective” to benefit FF athletes? .The announcement said beginning during the next few weeks. FF answer to the many new NIL opportunities popping up at various universities?
For those who attended the Canisius home game did you catch a graphic on the center scoreboard during 2H announcing the kickoff of a “ Red Sea Collective” to benefit FF athletes? .The announcement said beginning during the next few weeks. FF answer to the many new NIL opportunities popping up at various universities?
Gostags13 posted back in January of 2023 about Fairfield’s first NIL collective:
Fairfield finally has a NIL community! Today launches the start of "Fairfield NIL Club" which offers Stags fans a platform to receive exclusive content with their Fairfield Basketball teams for a personally designated monthly donation. The exclusive offers include an online message boards with players, virtual events with players and more! Sign up today for your chance to help out these student athletes by showing them some love with a monthly subscription!! Link below:
Post by alsostagparty on Mar 9, 2024 12:04:11 GMT -5
Wow, now they’ll want to get rid of conferences. Such a mess and beyond the point of no return. NCAA seems to have little leverage unless they become a ruling body only for schools which set an NIL limit. Only government can intercede and fix this eventually. It will get messier before new agreements/rules try to reel it in. I can see organized fan boycotts, schools eliminating sports, schools breaking away to form non NIL conferences, cheating, etc.
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Olivia Dunn, the gymnast from LSU, broke the NCAA on the this. She makes 1mm plus a year from her social media presence. Her earnings are all about her and very little to do with the NCAA/LSU - they can’t stop her and it’s not a leap that they can’t stop others.
For those who attended the Canisius home game did you catch a graphic on the center scoreboard during 2H announcing the kickoff of a “ Red Sea Collective” to benefit FF athletes? .The announcement said beginning during the next few weeks. FF answer to the many new NIL opportunities popping up at various universities?
Gostags13 posted back in January of 2023 about Fairfield’s first NIL collective:
Fairfield finally has a NIL community! Today launches the start of "Fairfield NIL Club" which offers Stags fans a platform to receive exclusive content with their Fairfield Basketball teams for a personally designated monthly donation. The exclusive offers include an online message boards with players, virtual events with players and more! Sign up today for your chance to help out these student athletes by showing them some love with a monthly subscription!! Link below:
It’ll be interesting to see if the Red Sea Collective is simply a renaming of the Fairfield NIL Club or an entirely new entity.
I have spoken to some folks involved in this. The NIL landscape has been a moving target, and it has taken some time to get things in place that are compliant in a world where things are changing almost as quickly as they can be put in place. But I understand there is going to me a lot of information communicated in the next few days.
Post by alsostagparty on Mar 9, 2024 14:31:05 GMT -5
What is going to stop high major schools from simply paying players directly through some trickery with their vast resources…especially public universities getting funding from the state? That is impossible to control. As a CT resident I already resent my tax dollars in some way having built up the crooked UConn sports monster.
Adding to all of this NIL confusion is the recent labor relation board ruling that teams can unionize. So yes it can’t be long before schools eliminate the need to take any classes at all, get into a bidding war for players and when the players don’t think they are getting their fair share they go on strike!
The fact that it was the Dartmouth team that voted to unionize is puzzling to me. Being part of the Ivy League, they don’t give out athletic scholarships. But I’m willing to bet for high quality recruits there’s some type of financial assistance made available to them at most Ivy League schools. Did Yale recruit Riley Fox attend a public high school in West Hartford because his parents are extremely wealthy and will have no problem paying Yale’s annual tuition? I don’t think so. Perhaps Dartmouth doesn’t do that at all, which might explain why the team wants to be considered employees — to receive some form of financial compensation for their time. But they’re looking to be in the same union as the cafeteria workers, probably not the highest paid employees at Dartmouth.
Of course, we do give out athletic scholarships which puts us in a different situation. I’m sure the appeals process in the Dartmouth situation will take years to play out. It’ll be interesting to see if other teams follow the Dartmouth lead and look to be considered employees or if they’d rather be considered students at their school.
The fact that it was the Dartmouth team that voted to unionize is puzzling to me. Being part of the Ivy League, they don’t give out athletic scholarships. But I’m willing to bet for high quality recruits there’s some type of financial assistance made available to them at most Ivy League schools. Did Yale recruit Riley Fox attend a public high school in West Hartford because his parents are extremely wealthy and will have no problem paying Yale’s annual tuition? I don’t think so. Perhaps Dartmouth doesn’t do that at all, which might explain why the team wants to be considered employees — to receive some form of financial compensation for their time. But they’re looking to be in the same union as the cafeteria workers, probably not the highest paid employees at Dartmouth.
Of course, we do give out athletic scholarships which puts us in a different situation. I’m sure the appeals process in the Dartmouth situation will take years to play out. It’ll be interesting to see if other teams follow the Dartmouth lead and look to be considered employees or if they’d rather be considered students at their school.
All Ivy League schools meet 100% of demonstrated need for their students. No merit or athletic scholarships available, it is solely based on household income. If his parents are only able to pay X amount, they will only pay that. Of course this gets a little more complicated with NIL.
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For those who attended the Canisius home game did you catch a graphic on the center scoreboard during 2H announcing the kickoff of a “ Red Sea Collective” to benefit FF athletes? .The announcement said beginning during the next few weeks. FF answer to the many new NIL opportunities popping up at various universities?
Gostags13 posted back in January of 2023 about Fairfield’s first NIL collective:
Fairfield finally has a NIL community! Today launches the start of "Fairfield NIL Club" which offers Stags fans a platform to receive exclusive content with their Fairfield Basketball teams for a personally designated monthly donation. The exclusive offers include an online message boards with players, virtual events with players and more! Sign up today for your chance to help out these student athletes by showing them some love with a monthly subscription!! Link below:
It’ll be interesting to see if the Red Sea Collective is simply a renaming of the Fairfield NIL Club or an entirely new entity.
I for one contributed to the NIL Club early and per the advertisements of “access to players and special events.” Nothing came after a few months and any type of contact fizzled off. I pulled back my “contribution” and don’t know where it stands since early last year. NIL is a way to keep players happy but the pay should give some sort of reward to those who spend it: advertisement, notarity or access. Just like a business should pay for a marketing spot with athletes so should NIL be a give and take.
Keep an eye out for coming months for “Red Sea Rising”. If you were at the last game vs Canisius you might have seen advertisements. Sounds like they are working on connecting community and local business to access to players and advertising. Per their Instagram bio with no posts it is the “official collective of Fairfield Athletics”. My guess this is a hedge on impending rule changes for NCAA to allow college athletic departments to fund NIL and pay kids (I believe the rule is up for review in April and can be in effect in August). With the momentum building this year, could be very good timing for a program that seems to be moving in right direction from a donor perspective.