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The longer article (https://fortune.com/2024/05/20/wnba-las-vegas-aces-aja-wilson-jackie-young-caitlin-clark-basketball-pay-gap/) gives more details of the restrictions and it seems even more similar to the college sports issues: The idea of the NCAA being competent and fair at judging and...

Ohh, we made it to the insults part of the show! My favorite! Me: "there’s some precedence for a salary cap putting certain restrictions on NIL at least around who can facilitate it" You: "I do [not?] think you even know what you are trying to say"..."The restrictions are on the school's...

If all that research was done in an environment where the researchers didn’t have to worry about teaching 19 year olds, would it be harmed? If the 19 year olds were taught by people who weren’t distracted chasing grants or doing the hard work for their grad advisors, would those students be...

lol I never said a “cap on nil” or “capping what someone makes in NIL.” The NCAA claims to have the same restrictions in place already but in practice does not, it’s unenforced. “accepting sponsorship money for “basketball services” even if the agreement is “ostensibly designated as being for...

Teams can’t help orchestrate nil or other outside income under the WNBA/players deal. How is that not clear? https://fortune.com/2024/05/20/wnba-las-vegas-aces-aja-wilson-jackie-young-caitlin-clark-basketball-pay-gap/ this article goes into more details and talks about where the gray areas seem...

It says it doesn’t violate it because the team didn’t orchestrate it. Team can’t help you get NIL. Would be much higher friction than what we appear to have today if the NCAA actually enforced their own version of that.

Because everyone believes that if you aren’t growing you’re dying, and research dollars are trophies administrators can brag about to each other. Personally I’m not convinced that the coupling of undergrad education and high-$ research (vs, say, industry or dedicated organizations) makes any...

https://www.fastcompany.com/91128131/can-las-vegas-aces-players-take-100k-tourism-sponsorship-wnba-investigating Fun tidbit here regarding salary caps and NIL: “The sponsorship does not violate the WNBA’s salary cap because the Las Vegas authority did not orchestrate it with the club.” So...

GT has been basically just as good, except for three years under Collins. But if you’d told us in 2003 that GT would be a peer to Miami for the next 20 years we’d be thinking serious title contention…

It’s relative. It’s really that simple: it’s relative. GT fires coaches for 3-5 wins or only very eventually for 7. Miami fires coaches for 6-8 wins. GT hurt the ACC by getting worse and so did Miami, they were expected (even by themselves) to carry a heavier load. Conferences need top dogs...

this doesn’t change whether or not the players go to class or do homework, so meh from my PoV. I’m curious what this would look like, and especially around if there’s a traditional CBA with a players union, and how would the salary cap be updated in the future, etc.

“Miami only looked good because the Big East was bad” is a fun take. They had plenty of good ooc wins and staggering NFL talent in their dominant run, neither of those have been close to the same level since.

Because Chan Gailey is the one that broke em. ;)

All you need to know about “has Miami sucked” is how many coaches they fired. Different programs have different standards for “suck” and Miami holds themselves to a higher one than you are - to the one they haven’t met, that they were hoped to meet. I’m not saying the ACC was doomed by them...

A program going from great to average certainly hurts a conference. Saying they’re average enough to not be hurting ignores the conference’s need for top teams and the reason they were brought in.