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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.

It’s not “Miami has been a dumpster fire” it’s “Miami was brought in to be a top 10 team annually to boost the ACC’s profile” and they have been far, far, far away from that.

Yeah that inside side is absurd lol

2-way contract players in the G-league will occasionally fill depth if teams have tons of injuries. But they're often behind the NBA vet minimum signees that fill out the ends of a team's bench at the NBA level, not players that are expected to make meaningful contributions. Interesting...

Looks like pro sports are generally considered independent contractors per this page https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/what-is-oshas-role-in-light-of-the-nlrbs-position-that-student-athletes-are-university-employees/ Presumably the athletic departments would look to mimic that...

Are you thinking more something specific like concussions and lasting damage or more like future career lost earnings risk? Sub minor league hockey for baseball for the former if that’s it. Is amateurism a shield to injury liability anyway though? If you’re a non profit doing work with...

Pro sports are operating under “non statutory labor exemption” from antitrust enforcement which AFAICT without being a lawyer is basically “courts and parties on both sides have decided salary caps don’t run afoul of the law as long as they’re negotiated by both the leagues + labor unions.” So...

You get around collusion with a union agreement. This is how most pro leagues do it (some have certain additional legal protection, but not all). Liability/insurance concerns don’t seem realistic to me - lots of broke minor league baseball teams out there paying peanuts that don’t seem to have...

Different join dates seems like it would be because they’re leaving different places but lol what a quote