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From what I can tell, it's the latter. The article states that ESPN will also still be going ahead with its plans to offer ESPN as a stand-alone, direct-to-consumer streaming option.

I saw that it will include every ESPN property and every Fox sports channel, plus Big Ten Network, TNT, TBS and even truTV. The Athletic calls it "The Great Rebundling".

To your point, it's another case of the rich getting richer. The most popular teams, or ranked teams viewed as good matchups, tend to get the most favorable time slots.

Hope it wasn't a resume "error".

If I put my optimistic hat on, I could imagine that unionization and contracts could help to level the playing field some. But I still see NIL as a means for some schools to outbid others.

Colorado could be due to the Deion effect, although it's much higher than I would have expected given they kind of crashed and burned after the first 3 games. Duke's numbers make me wonder about the integrity of the data. Perhaps their home games against Clemson and Notre Dame gave their...

Hahaha. I thought beating topics to death was a feature, not a flaw for this board.

You are more optimistic about this than me.

Yeah, I just read the entire article for the first time and saw my previous arguments go out the window. Oh well. This will get messy.

While that could happen, and in my opinion would open a can of worms, the employee designation would also trigger: Minimum wage requirements that apply whether or not they're in a union. Shouldn't be a big issue for most schools given where the minimum is now. Overtime law applies whether or...

I'm glad you, like me, can find some humor in some of the posts on this board. :) I think SoS is a factor. How much of a factor is a debate for some of the advanced stat folks. But I do think we defended two of the most potent offenses in the SEC and did rather poorly at it. It's been...

I also felt that pain. Freshman Chem or Physics come to mind...

Your general definition may be correct but is too general to answer the question of whether or not someone should be considered an employee. For example (and keeping this in the college context), if I paid you to take (and pass) my final exam, you could be considered a 1099/contract worker, but...

Agree.

So I think we have two potential reasons why they should not be considered employees. One is that if their only compensation is a scholarship to pay for qualified education expenses, that's not income per the IRS. The second is that if they are getting course credit for it, any required...

I can see that happening, and in that scenario, we may end up with the combined SEC/B1G as the "Premier A League", and with the B12 taking what is left from the former P5 and evolving into the "Premier B League".

I was about to object to your description of participating in football games, mandatory practices, and other required ancillary activities as not being "work". But then I had another thought - don't S-A's get PE credit for their sport? Wouldn't participating in the sport thus be considered a...

Another twist to the scholarship-as-income debate is that the IRS does not consider scholarships, grants, or fellowships used for qualified educational expenses to be income. So to be an employee, you need to both do work that is controlled by the employer, and get paid for it. If scholarships...

You make a good point and I suspect that's why scholarships have not traditionally been regarded as compensation. But regular students who a) receive academic scholarships not paid by the state (Hope) or another third party (many endowed schollys or federal grants) but instead paid directly by...

I agree with your take. Regarding the ACC implosion - one only needs to look at the BIG12 to see what might happen. They just lost not one, but their top 2 premier schools, and didn't get a huge windfall in the process. They went out and backfilled them with some up-and-coming G5 schools...