BobInHouston

The NFL caps, rules, and boundaries are collectively bargained. These rules would be imposed. Big difference. Schools can pay, up to $20 mil. Players can ask ("demand"). Schools can say no. Players can go elsewhere. It's how the American economy works. I don't see a difference between a school paying, or "real" NIL, or under the table. Until there is a contract between the schools and athletes, there *shouldn't* be any rules. Why is college athletics the one place in which the federal government should be allowed to set maximum pay? But you do get it right at the end. They need collective bargaining, and the B1G and SEC will fight any pay limit that materially affects them. When the NCAA set the cap at zero dollars, people cheated because the talent was more valuable than that, and as time has gone on, the value has become much greater. The issue is that the schools don't want to bargain collectively. They want federal law to impose rules. Admins and coaches in football and basketball are making money, schools are making money. It's not right, not fair to the athletes not to be able to make as much as they can. After all, without athletes, there are no games.

Why do you think it is that important? If it's not illegal, and there's no collectively bargained contract, people get to spend their money the way they want. Freedom of association and freedom to contract -- it's the American way.

NCAA rules never have been laws, so you can forget about subpoena power.

You would fit in quite well with the NCAA, which has tried for decades (and failed) to repeal the law of supply and demand. We have had like a hundred years of this "nonsense." More than that, actually. The "cap" was basically zero, in terms of actual cash, and schools ignored it, because the market the schools wanted to tap cost real money. When NIL became "legal," costs skyrocketed because schools need the best players they can find. The schools are welcome to live by the laws you suggest, but they won't, because they want their TV rights to be worth the millions they're being paid for them. But they do want the rules, because they will lower costs.

If you're not seriously considering athletes' rights when you say you're going to cap, and collectively bargain, you're not seriously working on the problem. I'm not saying that's easy. It's extraordinarily hard. But the schools are acting as though they can solve this problem without the athletes, and they can't.

That's really interesting.

When he announced on TV with sunglasses on, I figured he would be a problem.

So an exhibition will count in the Lone Star shootout?

That's not happening unless there's an earthquake at ESPN. ACC/B12. SEC is the star of Tuesday and Wednesday.

Most of these home-and-homes have gone poorly. One that didn't was when they swept Purdue.

I've seen two train wrecks against Georgetown at MSG. This game must be better.

Had to have him. They were going to be a bubble team.

Nah.

Are you really surprised that a Lithuanian kid idolizes Arvydas Sabonis? It is true, he never played college ball.

What a fabulous update! God's continued blessings to all of you.

Only if they are forced to.

Michigan's 2023 champs played East Carolina, UNLV, and Bowling Green, so there's that.

Oh, that must be Texas Tech, not Tennessee Tech.

The UPI poll was based on votes by coaches (or their SIDs, but I digress).

University of Missouri-Kansas City.

UMKC

I am sympathetic to the schools not wanting to negotiate with the players as employees, because of the concern over the impact on alumni, but I believe the schools don't really want to negotiate on anything.

Flagship: the finest, largest, or most important one of a group of things (such as products, stores, etc.) —often used before another noun How exactly was this misinterpreted? Heh.

He's gonna have to learn not to hang on the rim and pull up his legs.

There shouldn't be any outside of heavy discussion of the deal at trial. No charges against the Oak View Group, which runs the building.