NCAA gains another foe

[behappp]

I thought this was an interesting development in the NCAA Vs California battle over athletes being able to make $ on their likenesses etc. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article236329643.html
Mitt Romney Vs the NCAA
I'm not sure how to post the letter, just the link

 

[PlayerRep]

The ncaa is going down, or at least going to become a shadow of itself. In some respects, that will be good. In some respects, bad. In my view. The ncaa does bring some order to college athletics.

 

[IdaGriz01]

The ncaa is going down, or at least going to become a shadow of itself. In some respects, that will be good. In some respects, bad. In my view. The ncaa does bring some order to college athletics.

Something is going to happen, for sure. It depends upon how wedded "the core" of the NCAA is to their vision of "amateur" athletics. Most on here are way too young to recall what happened to the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) back in the Sixties and Seventies. One of my best buddies growing up (he was an award-winning football player and wrestler) gave me an earful on how the policies and arbitrary rules made life Hell for athletes after they got out of high school. [Does "arbitrary rules" perhaps ring a bell?] The AAU went from a "governing body" to a voluntary organization back in the seventies. (Even as a voluntary organization, they get criticized for some of the ways they do things.)

I don't claim to be any "Nostradamus," so I have no idea how this will all play out. But I can easily see the "big money" college football programs wanting to do something on their own. The problem, of course, is that all but a handful -- think USC and Notre Dame -- are tax-payer supported public institutions. No easy answers.

 

[jodcon]

Heavy hitters are starting to weigh in on this, l can't imagine the NCAA has a positive feeling about where it's going and is likely working on a proposal of some kind to limit the damage.

 

[IdaGriz01]

Heavy hitters are starting to weigh in on this, l can't imagine the NCAA has a positive feeling about where it's going and is likely working on a proposal of some kind to limit the damage.

Yep. The easy -- and therefore most likely in the long run -- answer is to "follow the money." Appearance fees, personalized memorabilia sales, etc., etc., are authorized within a "profit-sharing" framework that give the "enabling platform" (the school) a cut. Not all that different from other entertainment deals (and that's what this is), where the venue "books an act" and shares the cash flow.

But the NCAA would have to get over their obsession that college students are some idealized kind of "amateur" and cannot possibly have other roles in life.

For some strange (!?) reason, images from "Chariots of Fire" flashed into my mind: The college administrators who loftily tell Harold Abrahams that having a professional (horrors!) coach "just wasn't done" ... but then clink celebratory glasses when he wins the gold medal.

 

[jodcon]

Heavy hitters are starting to weigh in on this, l can't imagine the NCAA has a positive feeling about where it's going and is likely working on a proposal of some kind to limit the damage.

Yep. The easy -- and therefore most likely in the long run -- answer is to "follow the money." Appearance fees, personalized memorabilia sales, etc., etc., are authorized within a "profit-sharing" framework that give the "enabling platform" (the school) a cut. Not all that different from other entertainment deals (and that's what this is), where the venue "books an act" and shares the cash flow.

But the NCAA would have to get over their obsession that college students are some idealized kind of "amateur" and cannot possibly have other roles in life.

For some strange (!?) reason, images from "Chariots of Fire" flashed into my mind: The college administrators who loftily tell Harold Abrahams that having a professional (horrors!) coach "just wasn't done" ... but then clink celebratory glasses when he wins the gold medal.

I'm guessing you're spot-on on what the NCAA will propose, will try to sell it as the hosting school being the means for the athlete to cash in therefore should get X piece of the pie. Would be an easy sell to the big schools because 95% of fans don't know who someone like Dante Olson is but can name the Duke hoops team 6 or 7 deep.