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CA about to blow up NCAA?

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This doesn't go into place until 2023, but if it does, the NCAA will lose a lot of control. Other will surely follow.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/27156972/bill-allow-athletes-profit-name-advances

"A California bill that would make it possible for a college athlete to profit from the use of his or her name, images and likeness passed another subcommittee hurdle in the legislative process Tuesday afternoon.

The state assembly's Committee on Higher Education voted 9-0 to move the bill forward, and chairman Jose Medina called the NCAA's threats and requests to slow down the legislative process during the past couple months "akin to bullying."

"I don't take too fondly to threats to the state of California regardless of where they come from," Medina told ESPN on Tuesday evening.

The Fair Pay to Play Act, which was introduced in February by state Sens. Nancy Skinner and Steven Bradford, would prohibit schools in California from taking away scholarships or eligibility from college athletes who use their notoriety to make money. The proposal also allows for athletes to hire an agent or attorney to represent them in business deals without losing their eligibility. Skinner explained that it would not require schools to pay its players, but instead guarantee players the same rights given to Olympic athletes. The law, if it is passed, would not go into effect until January 2023."
 
Think of how much a car dealership in Tuscaloosa might pay a 'Bama recruit when this passes in AL?
 
Wouldn't one option be for the NCAA to just not include bball/fball teams from CA? I go see the NCAA going that way.

The NCAA has pretty much said that's what their response will be.

Would be interesting.
 
Wouldn't one option be for the NCAA to just not include bball/fball teams from CA? I go see the NCAA going that way.

That's what they say, but what happens when NC or AL or TX joins with CA?
 
Change of this nature is inevitable. The NCAA lost the scholar athlete model eons ago and the Carolina fake education scandal is but a small example. Banning a player’s access to the game because they are paid for use of their name in the marketplace only benefits the monopolistic control by the NCAA and its members supposedly for academic benefits but actually for economic gain by the monopolizers. This could easily harm WF but not if WF prepares for the inevitable.
 
Donald Ross could pay players millions from his businesses....
 
This doesn't go into place until 2023, but if it does, the NCAA will lose a lot of control. Other will surely follow.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/27156972/bill-allow-athletes-profit-name-advances

"A California bill that would make it possible for a college athlete to profit from the use of his or her name, images and likeness passed another subcommittee hurdle in the legislative process Tuesday afternoon.

The state assembly's Committee on Higher Education voted 9-0 to move the bill forward, and chairman Jose Medina called the NCAA's threats and requests to slow down the legislative process during the past couple months "akin to bullying."

"I don't take too fondly to threats to the state of California regardless of where they come from," Medina told ESPN on Tuesday evening.

The Fair Pay to Play Act, which was introduced in February by state Sens. Nancy Skinner and Steven Bradford, would prohibit schools in California from taking away scholarships or eligibility from college athletes who use their notoriety to make money. The proposal also allows for athletes to hire an agent or attorney to represent them in business deals without losing their eligibility. Skinner explained that it would not require schools to pay its players, but instead guarantee players the same rights given to Olympic athletes. The law, if it is passed, would not go into effect until January 2023."

It's not the schools that are taking away the eligibility correct? It's the NCAA.
 
The schools themselves may wish to have some say in this when the prospect of losing bowl game payouts becomes a bit more real.
 
just pay the players, they generate the revenue

I think most people outside of the NCAA would agree with this general idea, but there’s a difference between some nominal payment for video game likenesses being used and creating an environment where a local booster-owned business is paying a star player six figures for a cardboard cutout likeness of him on his showroom floor or something absurd like that.
 
History would teach us that any law passed by the general assembly in California is a bad idea and best to not be imitated by rest of country.
 
It's time to end the hypocrisy, one way or another.
 
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." So, who gets the money? If the photo on the cover of the program has the star QB throwing a pass in the game, is it just him? How about the OL off to the side? How about the opposing LB wrapped around his legs? Does everybody on the team get a piece of program sales? Do you think the schools will get away with not giving the women (non-revenue sports) a piece too. What will probably happen will be less licensing of actual players images and no monies going from the schools to the players. When Title IX was first enforced, the schools cut men's programs to meet compliance. Remember the WF Swim Team? Watch what will happen to the US women soccer teams demand for equal pay. They'll just bring the men's salaries down to the woman level. US men's soccer can't come close to the Europeans, so why not send over HS kids.
 
It's time to end the hypocrisy, one way or another.

I disagree. The current system works well for everyone: players, coaches, schools, media, and fans. Many players gain entrance into schools for which they otherwise would not qualify, they have access to world-class facilities, they have top-notch trainers/healthcare/coaching/nutrition, and they have $50,000 in tuition, room, and board covered annually.

The system encourages high school athletes to maintain their grades. If the US system wasn’t working, why would so many kids and their families strive for athletic scholarships? Why would student-athletes from other countries come to the US to play college sports? Why would European countries and Japan have interest in copying the US college sports system?

The system has been tweaked some (cost of living scholarships, stipends) and probably could probably be tweaked a little more (pro leagues should allow players entry out of high school). But blowing up the whole system seems like a terrible idea for all involved.

99% of the time in college athletics it is the school, not the players, that generates the fan interest and money. In the 1% of the cases in which the college player generates the interest (think Zion), the current system works well for them too. Zion got a massive amount of hype from his year at Duke, which propelled him to the number 1 pick and tons of endorsements.

One of the most hated names in sports is Ed O’Bannon. He thought he was fighting for the players and trying to get them money, but it completely backfired and now NCAA games are no longer made and gamers and current college athletes curse his name continuously (just check social media).
 
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