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Hopefully collective bargaining with a student-athlete’s union or trade association, real representation, comes sooner than later. Does the House settlement include any such item? Seems like you have a lot of coaches and administrators and TV people deciding that $20 million in revenue is enough to share with the students when there’s head coaches who make 40 to 50 to 60% of that all by themselves.
Unfortunately each conference is in it for themselves and not for the good of college football. Or they’re arrogant enough to think that what’s best for them is what’s best for college football. I’m referring to the SEC primarily and the Big Ten secondarily.
I do think 100+ D1 teams is too many and money is going to result in multiple tiers rather than just P4, G5, and then FCS. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but I don’t see it anything but inevitable.
I agree, but ya know Money talks Bull**** walks. So anything can happen.
Many states do not allow government entities to collectively bargain under the idea that the government shouldn’t be able to hold up the citizenry.
You can’t really “settlement” your way around that. You’d need the state legislatures to pass a law.
If they are ever going to get a deal set in place that isn’t challenged in the court, it will have to be collective bargained. Any other way will be deemed illegal and will lose in the courts. Those are the facts.
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Who do the players negotiate with??? Who's the owners???
Edit - I'm only asking because I've thrown this out there to a few people already and have gotten some really good answers so I just wanted to hear more of what's on people's mind concerning the topic....
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I've said this before, and I know it's especially hard to conceptualize in an organization that was not set up for PROFESSIONAL sports...
And as much as I hate the NCAA...and as much as they have become nearly powerless as 100 different injunctions have been granted...
EVERY sport needs a sanctioning body. You do. You need an organization that represents the sports, that promulgates and enforces the rules, that sanctions the competitions, and that collects all the fractious children (individual universities) into one group.
Has the NCAA made numerous poor decisions in the past? Sure. But it's the organization that we've got.
Right I remember when you originally answered in another post I made, TY for that....
Let's go a step further here and maybe explain how the NCAA then would represent the owner/school side of things???
Would it be like how Goodell works with NFL owners??? Assuming the schools would be the owners ....
My thinking tells me if the schools indeed become the owners that would abolish NIL as we know it or at least the collective part of it , right??
I mean the schools would have to handle payment to players to become owners?? Or am I off there???
There's just no definitive other party at this point .... You have the schools, the conferences, the NCAA and the collectives... and there's probably more I just don't know about....
You see where am at in my head with this??? LOL!!!.... At some point in the seemingly very near future there needs to be lines drawn as to who handles what and who has final say at the bargaining table..... I hope I'm making sense with all this...
