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NCAA says California schools could be banned from championships if bill isn't dropped

Master Blaster

Master Blaster

Ramblin Wreck from Golden Tech
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ld-banned-championships-over-bill/1542632001/

Interesting article here. California seems to be pushing legislation that allows college athletes to earn compensation for the use of their likeness. Obviously, the NCAA doesn't like this and is threatening that these schools would be ineligible for participating in NCAA championships. Curious as to what will happen here if the NCAA sticks to it's guns.

Will the California schools leave the NCAA and form their own association? What would this mean for the rest of the PAC12?
 
My initial reaction is that this is a bluff on the part of the NCAA. They don’t want it to pass, but I have a very hard time believing they would go through with that kind of threat. Between Stanford, UCLA and USC, they probably win 3-4 national championships per year in various sports. The majority of which are in sports where no athletes would ever benefit from that rule anyway.
 
Not Sure said:
My initial reaction is that this is a bluff on the part of the NCAA. They don’t want it to pass, but I have a very hard time believing they would go through with that kind of threat. Between Stanford, UCLA and USC, they probably win 3-4 national championships per year in various sports. The majority of which are in sports where no athletes would ever benefit from that rule anyway.
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This is my thought as well. The NCAA will eventually cave on this...probably. With how incompetent they are, you never know.
 
Master Blaster said:
This is my thought as well. The NCAA will eventually cave on this...probably. With how incompetent they are, you never know.
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they have to allocate resources somewhere and appear to do "be doing something" so Kansas and Carolina basketball can skate on by. ha ha.
 
Would be an interesting standoff, as you could expect many of the best athletes to then head to California to get paid. NCAA would see their brand diluted.
 
Ralphierunner said:
I just want the NCAA football video game to come back.
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With actual rosters and the players getting a cut of it that is put in an interest-bearing account they can't access until after their eligibility is up. It shouldn't be that hard to make something like that happen. Would get a lot of positive press while driving more interest from kids in college football.
 
Buffnik said:
With actual rosters and the players getting a cut of it that is put in an interest-bearing account they can't access until after their eligibility is up. It shouldn't be that hard to make something like that happen. Would get a lot of positive press while driving more interest from kids in college football.
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How much money would EA Sports project to generate off the NCAA football games? How much would go to every college football player in the country?
 
TSchekler said:
How much money would EA Sports project to generate off the NCAA football games? How much would go to every college football player in the country?
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130 teams x 85 players = 11,050 players as a basic estimate.

EA Sports pays the NFL & NFLPA $50M a year for its Madden rights. https://moneyinc.com/how-much-is-the-madden-nfl-video-game-franchise-worth/

Let's figure that the NCAA would get half that, so $25M.

Then, let's figure that players get half the money after administration costs like we see from a standard pro deal. For easy math, let's say that the player pool ends up at $11.05 million.

That comes out to $1,000 a year for every player.

Assuming that each school is getting a share of the rest ($11.05M / 130) and the rest went to the NCAA general fund and conferences, we end up with every Athletic Department getting a check for $85,000 a year.

We're not talking about huge money here.
 
It just occurred to me that even if California passes the law, that doesn’t mean schools like Cal, UCLA, Stanford and USC will start paying the players. The PAC 12 would have something to say about that.
 
Buffnik said:
130 teams x 85 players = 11,050 players as a basic estimate.

EA Sports pays the NFL & NFLPA $50M a year for its Madden rights. https://moneyinc.com/how-much-is-the-madden-nfl-video-game-franchise-worth/

Let's figure that the NCAA would get half that, so $25M.

Then, let's figure that players get half the money after administration costs like we see from a standard pro deal. For easy math, let's say that the player pool ends up at $11.05 million.

That comes out to $1,000 a year for every player.

Assuming that each school is getting a share of the rest ($11.05M / 130) and the rest went to the NCAA general fund and conferences, we end up with every Athletic Department getting a check for $85,000 a year.

We're not talking about huge money here.
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You didn't include FCS or other levels that are included in the game, unless you're just assuming the money would only go to FBS programs and players.
 
Buffnik said:
With actual rosters and the players getting a cut of it that is put in an interest-bearing account they can't access until after their eligibility is up. It shouldn't be that hard to make something like that happen. Would get a lot of positive press while driving more interest from kids in college football.
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Yeah. A system like that would be corruption proof. Right. In my mind it would serve as a money laundering operation.
 
Suppose the Cali schools have to band together for one big Cali classification, how would this impact the western conferences in general? The WCC, Big Sky, WAC, MWC, and Pac-12 would be impacted. I think a North and South split would be done for football:

Northern Conference
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
Boise State
Utah
Utah State
Wyoming
Colorado State
Colorado

Southern Conference:
Hawaii
Nevada
UNLV
Arizona State
Arizona
Air Force
New Mexico
New Mexico State
UTEP

For all sports:

Northwestern
Washington
Washington State
Gonzaga
Oregon
Oregon State
Boise State
Utah
BYU
Utah State

Southwestern
Nevada
UNLV
Arizona
Arizona State
NMSU
UNM
UTEP
Wyoming
Colorado State
Colorado

Big Sky
EWU
Seattle
Portland
Portland State
Idaho
Idaho State
Montana
Montana State

WAC
Weber State
Utah Valley State
Dixie State
Southern Utah
Northern Colorado
Denver
Air Force
Northern Arizona
Grand Canyon

Big Sky Football would contain all BS and WAC teams except AFA in football.
 
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