I’d guess that any player who signs a contract has the same legal rights as anybody else who signed a contract when one party doesn’t live up to what was agreed. In this case, Sluka only had a verbal agreement with the coach who recruited him. Which does suggest there’s a need for somebody looking out to protect players from getting screwed! (This is not the only example of this. As husker said above, there’s been a lot of noise about this stuff happening with guys who transferred to Colorado.)
We are getting into legal details that are way outside of my purview too. But my sense is that the problem here is less the concept of some rules governing NIL deals, than that unless conferences can get players themselves to agree to those rules (via collective bargaining, for example), then they are still illegally price-fixing to restrict player compensation.
I mean, I guess in theory we may one day have a high school player suing his athletic conference for preventing teams from paying him. But that’s not really the issue, this issue is that people have a right to get paid whatever the market decides their skills and talent are worth.
Why is this any different from a high school kid who’s an amazing singer, who gets offered a multi-million-dollar recording deal? Would it be OK if all the US record companies and concert promoters making tens of millions selling her work collectively decided that she’s only entitled to $10k, and agreed that nobody would offer her more than that?
Whatever you think of this in moral terms, that’s not really the issue. It’s about what federal law does or does not say. How many other cases do you see the current Supreme Court issuing unanimous opinions on? The law on this is clear: people have a right to make as much as the market says they’re worth. Artificially restricting them from doing that is illegal. What you’re arguing against is called FREEDOM. America, baby!
College athletes should be treated like INTERNS, not employees. They are trying to put themselves out there in the hopes to attract the attention of the NFL.
The best firms get the best interns and make the most money off them. That is the way it works in most industries.
The UNLV statement is basically: Do you have it in writing? Sucks to be you, I guess!
It’ll be interesting to see if this goes to court. On the one hand, UNLV may want to avoid having their OC asked under oath whether he made that offer. On the other, current NIL rules are so bizarre and complicated, I don’t know if they could settle even if they wanted to. Would that count as direct “pay to play,” which is still not allowed?
A lot of lawyers are making a lot of money helping schools come up with new ways to avoid paying top athletes what they’re worth!
How do you get the money to take all of your motorcycle trips, pay for a roof over your head, etc.? Would you be pleased being called greedy if you were upset if that suddenly went away?
I do think college players deserve to get paid seeing as though they make the school a shit ton of of money and most guys don’t make the nfl… But not a fan of so many players jumping from school to school… The whole transfer portal is wild.
Good with 14 year olds in Ford plants? Or are we going to tell them they can’t go make money with their talent to sit and run an air ratchet? The market can save money with a 14 year old’s financial requirements, so win win. Or do we tell the company what we have to pay them? FREEDOhhh! There is ALWAYS a line my friend REM.
I’ll fully admit that I enjoyed the purity and team unity pre-NIL. I think there will be an erosion of that. Maybe they could have done it a better way where it was more collective sharing of the TV money. Picking the winners and losers within a college sports team and within various sports as well is some tough sledding. Maybe they have the metrics to prove to the LG why the TE is getting a Tahoe and he’s leasing the scooter with Grams Christmas money. But methinks those aren’t very good.
Gotta be a strange dynamic in the locker room when some dudes are millionaires while others can’t afford a car at all. In the nfl even the practice squad guys are making 6 figures…so everyone has money.
There is a soft cap with rules attached. You can bend the cap a bit but if you take it beyond certain thresholds that limits your allotment for future years.
Then add in some ethics clauses for tampering, not honoring commitments to players etc. which also effect payout caps for future years.
I don’t jump from one company to another selfishly wanting more money ….
You can - try - to argue this and it fails in all sides: players and the NCAA
Now there are rumors this kid gave not only gave the finger to his first college to go to his current college but he is seeing at 3-0 other school are wanting him now to do another transfer
This is stupid and selfish period
Societys idea of self worth through your bank statement balances is sickening….
This type of mind set, refreshingly!! It what makes out Lions leadership so awesome now… these type of personalities will not make our team …
It’s just a matter of time before college athletes unionize, and these rules will be negotiated with the conferences. Not the NCAA, but the conferences.
