💰 Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) Discussion

Interesting update on the politics of the whole thing:

The thing that strikes me as I’m reading that is the collectives are now an interested party in all this and they are now lobbying. So now it’s not just the schools and the players … it’s also the collectives.

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@BDragon called this a while back; collectives aren’t going to go quietly now that they’ve gotten a piece of the pie.

I found these two quotes juxtaposed amusing:

But he wanted to set the record straight on one thing: TCA is not lobbying in favor of collective bargaining or athlete-employee status, as some have suggested. “That’s laughable,” he says. “We’re not labor professionals; we’re not people who are up there that are saying, ‘This is how it should be.’”

His suggestion: Ask the players what they want. “The athletes need to be involved in the system that’s being created that they will be operating under.”

Hmmm, what’s a way to involve the athletes in creating the system? Maybe they could be involved in negotiating the terms? But it is complicated to negotiate with every single athlete individually, perhaps we can find a way to have their interests aggregated and represented by a smaller unit of people authorized to make terms on their behalf? Just a thought.

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Just put all their social media feeds into an LLM.

“Should there be a cap?”

“Mmmm, Chipotle.”

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I love it when my career and my passion cross paths…

Well this was always going to happen.

I do think the now unified Republican government will be more likely to agree with the NCAA’s wishlist. The NCAA hired Charlie Baker for a reason, and I think it might pay off-- at least until the B1G and SEC decide they don’t want to play with the rest of us losers (and share the money) anymore.

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https://x.com/MattBrownEP/status/1894485955395866859

Found this exchange funny. Don’t really see the point in this soccer thing tbh.

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https://x.com/rossdellenger/status/1894750468951175305?s=46&t=Ru1fI9NHp0SQao1xiWxlPw

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I think this even further puts value on coaches who can do more with less because it allows you to spend more on other sports.

Think there is more value in having that coach be the football coach to save more money to spend elsewhere. Which makes the elliot hire even more frustrating because he needs expensive talent to be viable

of course this is assuming the hard 20.5 million cap and not that NIL collectives will still exist to give money on top of salary cap

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Sounds like Texas is taking the approach that the 20.5 million cap is not an actual cap/NIL collectives can supplement additional money to players on top of their $3-5 million allotted cap space through “actual” NIL

https://x.com/texaslonghorns/status/1894915894398108020?s=46&t=hBx5IgdgaHxwp9t59OVpFA

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Interesting that they are calling it “institutional NIL” and not “revenue sharing.” I mean…it’s obviously what it is; the athletes provide a form of marketing services for the institution.

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https://x.com/gmurecruiting/status/1895500490886254757?s=46&t=32p8RDdCHwpPxSl_BttvUw

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President Washington? We need to talk to them about that reanimated corpse technology

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Some of the first changes I’ve seen following the house settlement, etc. Doesn’t just discuss us dropping diving, but mentions multiple schools paring down their swimming rosters.

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Will this hurt us with scoring for ACC and National team titles?

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We weren’t really scoring any points from diving anyway and we evidently already carry a smaller roster than the maximum, so I don’t think so.

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Man the ACC is so cooked, there is discussion on the Trilly Discord about FSU and George Mason coach Tony Skinn and how Mason’s recent commitments financially to basketball and what FSU is on record for basketball make Mason the Better job ($3 million at Mason vs like $1.3-1.5 million in NIL at FSU)

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Mason and VCU are smart from a PR perspective to get their House settlement numbers out there, but I’m a little skeptical they are able to deliver on those numbers consistently. And House is still a bit theoretical at this point…

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https://x.com/on3sports/status/1899104871355159033?s=46&t=eycd6F115qi0O27aoHzj9A

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