VA legislature creates a law making it illegal for the NCAA to punish schools which directly pay players via NIL

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

So, this will open the door for school generated NIL deals and starts July 1 in VA.

Before the usual, "the kids are so entitled and ruining college sports" I'd like to point out this law was passed by the VA legislature, not the athletes. That is all.

Virginia Governor Signs NIL Law That Could Significantly Change College Sports Landscape

A groundbreaking NIL law was signed on Thursday in Virginia that could significantly impact the future of college athletics.

www.si.com

 

[SGMVols]

It’s going to be law nationwide soon anyway when the TN/VA case is over.

 

[Vol Catdaddy]

It’s going to be law nationwide soon anyway when the TN/VA case is over.

The NCAA is officially the bald mouth lion! All roar and no bite!

 

[spyfish007]

What this does is setup the next court battle between VA and NCAA. We will see whom else joins VA. After that NCAA is done. When not if.

 

[turbovol]

It's ironic that the college FB and BB have got chaotic and absurd precisely because somebody came up with the dumb idea of packaging NIL cash with recruiting offers. Nobody HAS to do it; nobody had to do it. Some programs chose to do so--corrupting the original NIL concept--then everybody had to do it--and now coaches have to work twice as hard and as long to reconstruct their rosters every year has players--people we used to call student-athletes--jump from program to program every year. And bids have to keep getting higher and higher with everybody desperate to sign the good prospects/players. Contributors and coaching staffs will bear the brunt of all this madness. There arose this notion that student-athletes were SOOO put upon, so oppressed and shackled by their duties as players--despite the fact that they're all getting a free college education plus other bennies worth upwards of a quarter of a million dollars over 4/5 years---and it is total nonsense.

 

[joevol24]

It's ironic that the college FB and BB have got chaotic and absurd precisely because somebody came up with the dumb idea of packaging NIL cash with recruiting offers. Nobody HAS to do it; nobody had to do it. Some programs chose to do so--corrupting the original NIL concept--then everybody had to do it--and now coaches have to work twice as hard and as long to reconstruct their rosters every year has players--people we used to call student-athletes--jump from program to program every year. And bids have to keep getting higher and higher with everybody desperate to sign the good prospects/players. Contributors and coaching staffs will bear the brunt of all this madness. There arose this notion that student-athletes were SOOO put upon, so oppressed and shackled by their duties as players--despite the fact that they're all getting a free college education plus other bennies worth upwards of a quarter of a million dollars over 4/5 years---and it is total nonsense.

Yell at any clouds lately?

 

[VolPack22]

The NCAA is officially the bald mouth lion! All roar and no bite!

That lion is all but castrated at this point.

 

[spyfish007]

It's ironic that the college FB and BB have got chaotic and absurd precisely because somebody came up with the dumb idea of packaging NIL cash with recruiting offers. Nobody HAS to do it; nobody had to do it. Some programs chose to do so--corrupting the original NIL concept--then everybody had to do it--and now coaches have to work twice as hard and as long to reconstruct their rosters every year has players--people we used to call student-athletes--jump from program to program every year. And bids have to keep getting higher and higher with everybody desperate to sign the good prospects/players. Contributors and coaching staffs will bear the brunt of all this madness. There arose this notion that student-athletes were SOOO put upon, so oppressed and shackled by their duties as players--despite the fact that they're all getting a free college education plus other bennies worth upwards of a quarter of a million dollars over 4/5 years---and it is total nonsense.

To me sound in this post, you like the old man yelling get off my lawn and no one really knows why he is so bitter.

 

[Boston Vol]

It's ironic that the college FB and BB have got chaotic and absurd precisely because somebody came up with the dumb idea of packaging NIL cash with recruiting offers. Nobody HAS to do it; nobody had to do it. Some programs chose to do so--corrupting the original NIL concept--then everybody had to do it--and now coaches have to work twice as hard and as long to reconstruct their rosters every year has players--people we used to call student-athletes--jump from program to program every year. And bids have to keep getting higher and higher with everybody desperate to sign the good prospects/players. Contributors and coaching staffs will bear the brunt of all this madness. There arose this notion that student-athletes were SOOO put upon, so oppressed and shackled by their duties as players--despite the fact that they're all getting a free college education plus other bennies worth upwards of a quarter of a million dollars over 4/5 years---and it is total nonsense.

This argument would carry more weight if we were still operating under the same conditions as the 80s-90s. Back then, the top football programs were generating around $1 million in TV revenue per year. Consequently, head coaches only made low-six figures, and most assistants were earning mid-five figures. Therefore, a college athlete receiving a full scholarship was considered a pretty good deal. Fast forward to today, and Big Ten schools will be receiving $80-100 million a year in TV revenue. Currently, coordinators and even some position coaches are earning over a million a year. It's unreasonable to expect coaches' salaries to increase by such large amounts while players do not start asking for a piece of the pie. The argument that the value of an education holds doesn't carry the same weight as it once did.

 

[ptcarter]

I'm guessing the words "Academically Ineligible" won't be heard much in the future. It's a violation of the Sherman act now.

 

[LouderVol]

I'm guessing the words "Academically Ineligible" won't be heard much in the future. It's a violation of the Sherman act now.

being academically ineligible won't keep someone from earning money. just playing. two separate issues.

and I don't think there is anything stopping a collective from requiring academic eligibility as part of their contract beyond competition.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

being academically ineligible won't keep someone from earning money. just playing. two separate issues.

and I don't think there is anything stopping a collective from requiring academic eligibility as part of their contract beyond competition.

NIL supposedly couldn't be tied to a specific school, though obviously this all changes with schools offering their own NIL.

It appears the states, and by extension the schools in those states, want "no holds barred" and a complete Wild West NIL market.

People here will STILL likely blame the athletes for this mess when the NCAA and schools and states are clearly the ones making this NIL landscape a nightmare.