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Looking back at the Jeremy Bloom saga years ago (long - but i wrote it with a lot of white space so it can be read quickly.

unibuff

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There were kind of 2 camps. One group said he should be able to make that money from endorsements. That’s only fair as they make schools a lot of money.

The NCAA position was if we let athletes do endorsements it’ll open the door to abuse and ultimately could change college athletics to the point of ruin.

It turns out both sides were somewhat right.

As I think about the current and future state of college athletics and potential elements of the future these are some things that have popped not my head. Feel free to educate me or contradict me. I may be off base because i fight the battle with my own stupidity every day.

Here we go:

20 years ago, or so people became outraged at the thought schools were taking advantage of student athletes by using them to make lots of money and not graduating them. They put in rules to punish schools who were not graduating enough athletes or making sure athletes were making "academic progress."

Wasn’t there an APR report schools issued? Maybe there still is. It seems today the threat of schools taking advantage of athletes at the expense of their education is much more of a problem.

Where are these outraged people now?

Side Note: Interestingly I think the sport that initially was found to be falling significantly short of APR goals was ... Baseball.


Also -

Scott Frost was a whining little b7tch... sorry, that’s not the appropriate word to use.

Scott Frost is a whining little b7tch.

But during one of his year 1 NU whining episodes, he did say something to the effect that with all these players bouncing around from school to school, how does that support educational efforts?

I think it’s a legitimate comment, but I don’t hear that as a critique of todays unlimited transfers rule.

I hear state Attorney Generals (including Colorado’s) saying athletes should have the right to go where they want when they want. True.

These AGs are thinking they’re advocating for these kids – and they are. – but at what cost to their education? We’re talking 18-20 year olds- they are not all thinking long term and neither are a lot of the people who are courting them for the athletic ability.

Again , where are the people that were outraged about schools taking advantage of athletes - 20 years ago.

When they put the rules in, my thought was as long as they’re going to class and getting passing grades its fine if they don’t end up graduating. If they want to waste the opportunity at a college degree that’s on them. Their making the schools money, cut them some slack.

Regarding comments I’ve read on future state:

To have a salary cap, I believe college sports would need some kind of anti-trust exemption.

If there is a salary cap, there would also be a salary minimum. No employee association (legislative body) would agree to allow a salary max without a salary minimum.

Years ago, the NCAA put a limit on the number of college Basketball assistant coaches that a school could have and a cap on how much they could make. That lasted a few months until the first lawsuit hit the courts. An industry can’t cap an individual employee’s salary.

If you make student athletes employees, it changes the relationship. Would they qualify for overtime, or would they be exempt? Salaried employees are generally exempt.

Make them independent contractors? Well, Microsoft got in trouble years ago because they had long term contractors doing everything employees do but without the advantages of being an employee.

After that ,a lot of companies capped the length of time a contractor could be used- I've seen 18 months. Although I don’t think this is a rule/law.
If you make athletes/contractors employees their scholarship would definitely be considered taxable income.

One group I wouldn’t want involved in addressing the problems are major college conference commissioners – those clowns have created a lot of the current problems with advocating to fill the pockets of their members with $ at the expense of fans, other conferences, and the majority of student athletes in the US.

To address these and all the other problems with the current state of College sports congress would have to be involved.

If the senate was involved, you’d have 2 advocates for Texas, Alabama, etc. And you also have 2 advocates for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, South Dakota, etc.

The revenue share element seems to be a necessarry element going forward – but I’m unfamiliar with the details.

I would welcome an explanation from someone who is familiar.


I'm old/tired and going to bed now -after i finish my beer.
 
This is not a 2:30 AM read.
It’s not a 4;30 read either
tired waking up GIF by Slow Dancer
 
I do know there is a ton of money changing hands and the players deserve a slice of that pie. Currently, it feels like the wild west. I'm sure changes will be coming. I am interested if the P2 will try and get said changes in place that will benefit only them.
 
I do know there is a ton of money changing hands and the players deserve a slice of that pie. Currently, it feels like the wild west. I'm sure changes will be coming. I am interested if the P2 will try and get said changes in place that will benefit only them.
What do you think a 12 team playoff is?
 
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