Okay but Transfer portal needs fixing, penalties needed except for the rarest situations like a coach getting fired. Being able to switch teams, especially to a rival, because of "feels" or money is crazy. Woah, Trump is a man of action. The last guy would've been on the beach eating a pudding completely out of it on a Friday.
If you actually think that athletes getting paid (after decades of being used as proximate slaves) is a bad thing, you're a d!ckhead. There really is no argument to be made, if a group of people is profiting off your efforts and talents, you deserve to get paid a high percentage of that profit.
This issue is so clear cut, I swear if you cry about NIL, I assume you've been lobotomized. The people that pretend that NIL is ruining NCAA sports are hilarious too, the rating keep going up, but because you're mad that black teenagers aren't poor, NIL sucks.
Okay but Transfer portal needs fixing, penalties needed except for the rarest situations like a coach getting fired. Being able to switch teams, especially to a rival, because of "feels" or money is crazy. Woah, Trump is a man of action. The last guy would've been on the beach eating a pudding completely out of it on a Friday.
Trump can issue an executive order to require everyone to vote republicans, otherwise he will suspend college sports and pull federal grants from schools. The maga way.
My hot take, that I don't entirely buy myself, is that we need to completely do away with or heavily reform the NCAA.
Move to a club model for Olympic sports. For basketball and football and baseball etc, we can have more clubs and minor/feeder leagues like every other country.
Whatever he says, he'll change his mind 5 times in the next 48 hours, because he doesn't understand how anything works, doesn't CARE how anything works, and can barely stay awake at this point, let alone produce a coherent thought about anything substantive. We have a vegetable-in-chief.
Made me laugh: Portal Tariffs will replace NIL money.
“By 2028 I wouldn’t be surprised if portal tariffs completely replace NIL money. Which are of course paid by the departing school and not the school receiving the player. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
I don't think this is a good idea. Atheltes should be able to make as much as they can. Normal students can build startups, be influencers, etc – so why shouldn't athletes?
And people also switch jobs all the time – what's the problem with switching colleges for a better opportunity? Again – normal students can transfer at will.
The thing is that the athletes are getting paid by conglomerates that are supposedly not affiliated with the university but clearly coordinate with the coaches. The name, image, and likeness of some random above average offensive lineman isn’t worth much in an actual individual marketplace - no shoe company or fitness brand is going get any return on partnering with them and using their name. But the conglomerates will pay because they know that linemen win football games, not because the name, image and likeness of the linemen is valuable to businesses.
I am supportive of players earning money on their own using their talents, but not in the way that the current system operates. If Fernando Mendoza wants to independently sign an apparel deal with Nike that’s great, but that’s not the same as someone like Mark Cuban cutting him multi-million dollar checks for playing for Indiana and not some other school.
I disagree. Students should be allowed to enroll wherever they want and to pursue the best opportunities for themselves. If someone built a 7 figure (or greater) startup and transferred to the best school for them to grow it even more nobody would have a problem with that. So why shouldn't athletes be able to do the same thing – they are the product?
Such an executive order would be unconstitutional. Not than any Trump voters care, of course. For them, the Constitution is to be brandished in public and used as toilet paper in private.
Before NIL, student-athletes were being paid. It was called an athletic scholarship. Free board, food, travel, healthcare, and most importantly, a free education. Enough of this NIL crap.
Before NIL, student-athletes were paid under the table by their boosters.
The House settlement is a step in the right direction as it makes the payment transparent.
Agree with this. The current system is a mess. It is biased against US athletes, is completely opposed to the fundamental educational role of the US collegiate system, it benefits a select few high end athletes but it has ruined a system that worked well for a much broader swath of student athletes.
No, it is biased against international athletes. They are not allowed to "work" under student visas, so their NIL opportunities are limited compared to US athletes.
Toby Fournier flew back to Canada during off season to shoot some photos for her sponsor because she is not allowed to do so in the US. Clara Struck was doing a Turbotax commercial during the March Madness last year. It could have been Fournier instead if she had been allowed to work in the US. Syla Swords is another player who could be highly marketable if she were an American. She has the game, the personality and everything else the sponsors look for.
This is never an issue with football because there are so few international athletes. But there are more than Track &Field / Cross-Country and football in NCAA sports in case you didn't know.
The problem with all of this is the NCAA/revenue generating sports. Anybody who thinks basketball/football players don't have real value is kidding themselves. Taking away their earning opportunities is not the solution. The issue is that the NCAA sought to protect "their" profits so allowed open season for outside donors to flood money into bigtime sports. Money should be coming from profits/not outside sources. Kids still don't get paid for their labor. NCAA/schools keep revenue & whatever schools have the richest donors can buy a half decent team. & the reality is that, by & large, schools that were good/bad pre-NIL are still good/bad today. Players get compensated now, which isn't a bad thing -- the bad thing is the sources of it. Exceptions I can think of would be Indiana football. Basketball looks ~same. Less March Madness upsets last season maybe because good teams can pay for better bench players who would've ended up at those schools. Guess we'll see if that pans out again in a couple weeks. Whatever Trump's up to isn't it. Reversing course & pretending top athletes are student athletes isn't fixing anything.
NCAA/schools keep revenue & whatever schools have the richest donors can buy a half decent team. & the reality is that, by & large, schools that were good/bad pre-NIL are still good/bad today. Players get compensated now, which isn't a bad thing -- the bad thing is the sources of it. Exceptions I can think of would be Indiana football.
Texas Tech softball had not made the NCAA tournament since 2019 and had never made the superregional. Then they decided to make major investment in the program (thanks to a wealthy alum named Patrick Mahomes). They signed the national player of year (Nija Canady) for $1M+ contract, and also brough in a successful coach from Louisiana. The coach brought several players with him, along with some other transfers. They came one game within the national title last year, and Canady was signed for the second year with even more money. Meanwhile, Louisiana missed the tournament for the first time since 1998.
There is potential for many schools to do the same in other sports if they are willing to spend enough money.
“We have a seven-year freshman,” he said. “We’re seeing things that we’ve never seen before. We have college players that don’t want to go to the NFL because they’re making more money in college, right?” “A lot of really bad things are happening, but basic questions like who is eligible to play are now virtually unregulated and decided randomly by judges rather than by reasonable, agreed-upon rules that could be very simple and very simply drawn,” he said
The system is a mess but Trump isn't king so this is non-news. And didn't he start a war that he should be paying attention to?
If Trump and Congress could get on the same page and pass actual laws instead of an invalid executive order, maybe that would be a start to cleaning things up.
But if all Trump wants to do is turn back the clock, I doubt Congress will go along. Too much has changed and there isn't much support for athletes getting paid nothing while coaches and schools make millions.
