California passes bills to allow college athletes to seek 3rd party compensation These bills would have probably passed regardless since California is a blue-trifecta state, but it's pretty remarkable that these bills passed unanimously - that literally never happens anymore in the age of right wing scorched earth extremism/trolling as policy. The NCAA's profit siphoning days are numbered.
finally... Open the damn market up. Put the Feds out of business peddling their RICO traps for $10k that ruin Asst Coach's lives, while we're at it.
“Forget shoe deals and video games,” Assemblyman Kevin Kiley said. “NCAA athletes can’t make a little money over the summer coaching youth sports, can’t promote their social media, can’t model athletic wear, can’t accept groceries or help with rent or equipment. When a line in the sand is enforced obsessively, excessively and to the point of absurdity, that’s usually a sign it doesn’t belong there.” “The NCAA has repeatedly lost anti-trust cases in courts throughout the nation,” Skinner told the LA Times. “As a result, threats are their primary weapon.” but, but ... this jeopardizes the sanctity of amateur sports And here comes the threats ... claiming he will penalize students for taking advantage of the law of the State. “If the bill becomes law and California’s 58 NCAA schools are compelled to allow an unrestricted name, image and likeness scheme, it would erase the critical distinction between college and professional athletics and, because it gives those schools an unfair recruiting advantage, would result in them eventually being unable to compete in NCAA competitions,” the letter to Newsom said. “Right now, nearly half a million student-athletes in all 50 states compete under the same rules. This bill would remove that essential element of fairness and equal treatment that forms the bedrock of college sports.” Dude, you clearly just want to protect the right of the College to get all the sponsor Money, and don't want to share it with the players ... thus, now we have threats for players who have the law of the State behind them.
The NCAA wants no parts of cutting any of their student-athletes a check and warned Governor Newsom that doing so is “unconstitutional,” “harmful,” and threatens to jeopardize the sanctity of amateur sports.
I wonder if, decades from now, provided we are able to reflect on such things, and not living in a climate change/inequality driven dystopian hellscape, the people who issue moronic letters like that from the NCAA will look back on it and say "man what was I thinking". I mean, letting a kid sell his name to a shoe company is an unfair recruiting advantage, because instead, that money should go to Clemson University so that it can spend $55 million in renovating workout facilities and practice space including " a movie theater, a miniature golf course, an artificial turf whiffle ball diamond, two bowling lanes, and an arcade." because that is a fair recruiting advantage. That's just so obviously dumb, I don't even know what to say.
NCAA backs down again. I know they're going to try to put out their own version of this that screws the players once again, but once the dam starts to crack, it's not going to hold forever. https://www.espn.com/college-sports...s-way-athletes-profit-names-images-likenesses Days = numbered
lulz. They are trying to get in front of this, too late, but don't really want to change, to stay in control. However, Smith (AD of OSU, in charge of recommending changes to NCAA) said Tuesday that the NCAA's new rules would not follow the "California model" of a virtually unrestricted market. He said the working group would remain involved in sorting out the details of how to implement new rules and that the NCAA would likely stay involved as the group in charge of regulating future endorsement deals. US Congress is also working on a federal version of the California Model. prediction: NCAA will do something that still tries to disallow agents and player representation. In other words, they won't want players to lawyer-up, so to speak.
