NCAA clears way for athletes to profit from names, images and likenesses

[Michchamp]

Link:

The board members said in a release Tuesday that all changes should make sure student-athletes have the same opportunities to make money as all other students, maintain the priorities of education and the collegiate experience, and ensure that rules are "transparent, focused and enforceable" and do not create a competitive imbalance. The board wants each division to implement new rules by January 2021.
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They basically did this to forestall getting cut-blocked by (bi-partisan!) State and Federal laws, which were moving in this direction.

That's how worthless and incompetent the bumbling NCAA under sleaze-monger Mark Emmert has been, they can't even govern their own territory...

The working group was formed in May, months after a pair of lawmakers proposed bills to make the NCAA's rules about endorsement deals illegal. In California, Democratic state senator Nancy Skinner wrote a bill that was signed into law in late September. That law will prohibit California schools from punishing their athletes for accepting endorsement money starting in January 2023.
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Ramogi Huma, founder of the National College Players Association, said he viewed Tuesday's announcement as a failure that doesn't go far enough to show the organization is truly interested in supporting athletes.


"The NCAA has failed on this issue once again," Huma said. "This is another attempt at stalling on this issue."


Another federal bill that will likely allow for some NCAA regulation is expected soon. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a Republican from Ohio and former college and professional football player, plans to introduce his own legislation in the coming months. Gonzalez played wide receiver at Ohio State during Smith's first two years as athletic director for the Buckeyes. Gonzalez said he has talked to Smith about ways to install "guard rails" to avoid unintended negative consequences while making what Gonzalez considers to be some necessary changes.

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[Michchamp]

These new rules aren't exactly "players getting paid" but they're moving that way.

We'll see if these new rules destroy the sports, like all the whiners have claimed for the last couple years.


Spoiler alert: THEY WON'T.

 

[thewolverines24]

This is pretty pointless. This is authorizing benefits, not compensation, and the benefits must be tethered to education. No cash.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

 

[tomdalton22]

basically that entire NCAA B-ball scandal...that shit will be legal in a few years. Nike, Adidas, etc. will just pick and choose where they send men's b-ball players.

 

[Michchamp]

basically that entire NCAA B-ball scandal...that shit will be legal in a few years. Nike, Adidas, etc. will just pick and choose where they send men's b-ball players.

if the NCAA isn't going to police it or do anything about it, just legalize it?

why penalize the programs and players who try to follow the rules?

 

[Michchamp]

This is pretty pointless. This is authorizing benefits, not compensation, and the benefits must be tethered to education. No cash.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

I didn't get the sense they had put anything concrete forward yet in terms of proposals.

but I guess I should be skeptical, you're right, of them actually doing anything that moves some of the dollars from their big huge fucking pile of money to the actual athletes who generate it.

 

[tomdalton22]

I didn't get the sense they had put anything concrete forward yet in terms of proposals.

but I guess I should be skeptical, you're right, of them actually doing anything that moves some of the dollars from their big huge fucking pile of money to the actual athletes who generate it.

I don't see it moving any money from those piles. I see the 4 and 5 star players getting money from different piles (endorsements). The average players might get a little taste but for the most part it will be the stars that are already on the path to become millionaires in the NBA or NFL getting their money earlier.

 

[thewolverines24]

I didn't get the sense they had put anything concrete forward yet in terms of proposals.



but I guess I should be skeptical, you're right, of them actually doing anything that moves some of the dollars from their big huge fucking pile of money to the actual athletes who generate it.

From the NCPA:

"Please dismiss headlines about NCAA allowing player compensation for name, image, & likeness. The vote authorizes ?benefits? not compensation. It?s said in the spring such benefits must be ?tethered to education? (not cash). Another NCAA stall tactic & failure to lead."

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[byco42]

Mitt Romney doesn't want to see a couple players driving around campus in "Ferraris."

"What you can?t have is a couple of athletes around campus driving around in Ferraris while everybody else is basically having a hard time making ends meet,? Romney said. ?And you can?t have a setting where some schools who are in major markets and have big sport followings ? some schools are like the honeypot and all the great athletes all want to go to those handful of schools. Then you kill collegiate sports.?​

So college athletics will devolve into a few great schools with all the athletes going there and a "couple" driving Ferraris. I can't wait for that to happen. Imagine the car shows on State Street between South U. and North U. It will be amazing.

And this cart-before-horse reaction from Richard Burr. It's like we little people can't have the nice things without our elected representatives' approval. Oh, well, my Kingdom is not of this world, anyway.

 

[Michchamp]

I was gonna post an article from The Nation that calls the NCAA's announcement a lot of bullshit, but their ad software is so shitty I can't even scroll through it to post the quote I want without my screen jumping back to the top over and over again, so fuck it, and fuck silicon valley.

Also, is it just me, or is Mark Emmert one odd looking guy?

I can't exactly put my finger on why. I assume he had "work" done, but can't tell what.

 

[byco42]

I was gonna post an article from The Nation that calls the NCAA's announcement a lot of bullshit, but their ad software is so shitty I can't even scroll through it to post the quote I want without my screen jumping back to the top over and over again, so fuck it, and fuck silicon valley.

Also, is it just me, or is Mark Emmert one odd looking guy?

I can't exactly put my finger on why. I assume he had "work" done, but can't tell what.

Pretty clear to me that he's a shapeshifter.

 

[Michchamp]

Pretty clear to me that he's a shapeshifter.

whoever edits his wikipedia entry hilariously took extra effort to parse out exactly when he got to certain institutions, to absolve him of scandals.

literally every place he worked got nailed with NCAA sanctions at some point.

And now that he's the head of the NCAA, he makes sure no places get sanctioned... or at least sanctioned as much as they should! >

Penn St should've gotten the death penalty. Emmert did them a favor, and they still act like he screwed them over...

 

[byco42]

whoever edits his wikipedia entry hilariously took extra effort to parse out exactly when he got to certain institutions, to absolve him of scandals.

literally every place he worked got nailed with NCAA sanctions at some point.

And now that he's the head of the NCAA, he makes sure no places get sanctioned... or at least sanctioned as much as they should! >

Penn St should've gotten the death penalty. Emmert did them a favor, and they still act like he screwed them over...

"Emmert is currently a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations."

 

[Michchamp]

"Emmert is currently a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations."

Oh, of course he is!

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

 

[byco42]

Oh, of course he is!

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

We should join it. I think it?s pretty easy to qualify.

 

[tinselwolverine]

We should join it. I think it?s pretty easy to qualify.

I wouldn?t be a member of any club that would have me.

Okay, I stole that from Groucho Marx.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I wouldn?t be a member of any club that would have me.

Okay, I stole that from Groucho Marx.

Still funny.

 

[hungry]

Maybe he had his chin and cheeks done. I hear that is quite popular with the rich, older crowd

If you aren't born with and/or can't work for that strong chin line, then dammit, do it with surgery. Hardly ever works out to look the way it is supposed to, though.

 

[GoBlueInAtlanta]

Maybe he had his chin and cheeks done. I hear that is quite popular with the rich, older crowd

If you aren't born with and/or can't work for that strong chin line, then dammit, do it with surgery. Hardly ever works out to look the way it is supposed to, though.

He should have had the flabby jowls done, too.