@S_Beasley @ADavidHaleJoint Interesting, given the title of the contracts the athletes are signing with schools are literally called NIL agreements...therein highlighting the primary issue
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Dev Sethi
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Dev Sethi
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COO, @athletesorg, former Head of Sports @instagram. First CoS at @complex. college basketball is my love language
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@ADavidHaleJoint The NCAA already can't do that. The "student" can strike whatever NIL deals they want, with any company willing to pay, and transfer as often as they like. What the school pays is not NIL, far from it.
And the NCAA while can't prevent transfers, it can prevent playing a sport.
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Yes, agreed. The bottom line is, if NCAA isn’t willing to consider athletes as something different than a normal student, you basically can’t regulate anything a regular student can do — transfers, earning money, selling image rights, etc. Alston affirmed that logic emphatically.
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw
@ADavidHaleJoint Agreed that it was a big part of the snowball. But for people to say SCOTUS gave athletes NIL rights or said schools have to pay athletes (which some people say) is just wrong. Everyone has NIL rights from state law. NCAA just restricted those rights.
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@RossDellenger don't think interest will be there, a solution addressing a business problem but not a consumer need/interest
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TheLinkU and Twitch are launching StreamU, a live-streaming network designed for college sports, enabling schools to manage their own branded channels.
Content may include watch parties, athlete Q&A sessions and coach interviews as new revenue opportunities for athletes/schools.
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Coach @patkelsey has been tabbed to serve on the Video Game Advisory Committee, a new initiative designed to inform, engage and amplify college athlete voices in discussions around their representation in video games, including in NBA 2K!
Details: uofl.me/4cIR4v7
#GoCards
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Least they say the fundamental flaw out loud they and many other institutional powers want codified - unilateral ability to subsidize their own spending (and spending habits) by taking away from those who generate the majority of the value. 'Oh but they can still earn NIL money'
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw
Louisville’s President, AD and Board chair wrote a piece explaining their preferred plan for college athletics governance moving forward. It’s essentially supports the SCORE Act with some added elements from the SAFE Act. One notable wish list item is a hard salary cap.
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Decisions about college sports are being made without the athletes who make the game possible. AO is speaking up.
Read the full statement at buff.ly/biymbHo
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Are you an agent currently working or interested in the collegiate space?
If so, you’re invited to our Q1 Virtual Agent Town Hall on Wednesday, March 18 at 4:30 PM EST
Register today: forms.athletes.org/agenttownhall
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It's not the 'wild west' - it's the continued race to the bottom. Remember that some of these states have also tried to pass legislation that only grants high school NIL rights to athletes who have committed to play for state universities. Because that's quite reasonable...
Dan Wetzel@DanWetzel
Mississippi is the latest to consider "No Tax on NIL" legislation, a sweet carve out for college athletes. The bill's author has heard the complaints, but defends his reasons. And despite the uproar, it’s a trend that likely spreads to more states seeking to help their teams (even the pros?). Column for @ESPN espn.com/college-footba…
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Some valid points here. I'm not sure the SBA is a cure-all, but "College athletics doesn't need government control" is a hell of a line coming from two leagues that have spent millions of dollars in the last few years lobbying for government to control the athlete payment market.
Ben Portnoy@bportnoy15
The SEC and Big Ten have co-commissioned a white paper pushing back against consolidated media rights and opening the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. The paper specifically targets "Saving College Sports," the group headed by billionaire Cody Campbell. More info here:
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Great things can happen for everyone in college sports - athletes, universities, administrators, fans - when we stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and realize…we can change the shape of the hole.
Just requires us to relinquish our vice grip of EVERY college sports tradition, preserve the best ones, and update the rest for 2026 to reflect what college sports actually is - an industry.
Danny White@AD_DannyWhite
1st: You don’t have to get a federal law passed to build a collective bargaining construct to save college sports. It’s actually the only solution we have that doesn’t involve asking congress to give us a pass on the Sherman Act. 2nd: Nobody has said collective bargaining would be “simple.”There are no “simple” solutions to this problem. Clearly, asking congress to save us has not proven to be a “simple”solution. 3rd: Not pursuing all avenues to solve our dysfunctional system is negligent.
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The inability to replace the best athletes in the world, and their role as the star attraction for any sports fan, gives them leverage to benefit from their own labor. At least, most of the time. buff.ly/SaAEScW
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@Hoosierfan1997 @mayorpike2 @slmandel They’re NIL deals regardless of the source of revenue. The agreements themselves say NIL licensing agreement.
Michael McCann@McCannSportsLaw
In theory, Darian Mensah could join Miami as a student and play football there—but not sign an NIL deal with Miami—and Duke could control his NIL. But that won't happen. Duke wants to keep him & he wants to join Miami in a better NIL deal. NIL is functioning as employment.
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@DevSSethi @mayorpike2 @slmandel Revenue sharing is money from the school that they get from TV contracts they are not at all the same as NIL deals
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Duke has filed suit against Darian Mensah in the state of North Carolina seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent him from entering the transfer portal.
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In theory, Darian Mensah could join Miami as a student and play football there—but not sign an NIL deal with Miami—and Duke could control his NIL.
But that won't happen.
Duke wants to keep him & he wants to join Miami in a better NIL deal.
NIL is functioning as employment.
Lin Giralt@lingiralt
@McCannSportsLaw @Sportico INTERESTING ARTICLE, THE PLOT THICKENS. Could it be that Duke retains NIL while he plays for Miami? How could Miami legally compensate him w/o NIL and w/o making him an employee? All roads lead to negotiation.. Full Disclosure: Duke '77.
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@mayorpike2 @slmandel No they are allowed revenue sharing deals now
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.@DanGrazianoESPN asked Azeez Al-Shaair about the defensive mindset after a turnover:
“My mindset is it doesn’t even matter. We have this thing called ‘White Boy Wednesdays’ in the weight room where they play rock music. There’s this one song—I don’t even know the name—but I know the part where it goes, ‘In the end, it doesn’t even matter.’”
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Thanks for the AO shout @skhanjr. The greater the opportunity (or more complicated the problem), the more diverse the room needs to be to solve them. The quicker these leaders embrace diverse perspectives & stop acting in self-interest, the quicker we get to sustainable future.
Sam Khan Jr.@skhanjr
Darian Mensah’s 11th-hour portal move is the latest example of college football’s broken structure. But he's just following the example set for him by college sports “leaders,” who look out for themselves and cry for rules only to break them. My column: nyti.ms/4qnivyj
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Mets need a better NIL collective, huh?
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan
BREAKING: Star outfielder Kyle Tucker and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a free agent contract, sources tell ESPN.
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Another great analysis by @SportsBizMiss, this one of B10 rev share agreements.
And here we’re told the rev share is about NIL and “not” athletic participation. Imagine that! Having negotiated B10 agreements (and agreements from schools in other conferences), I’ve negotiated the termination for medical “disqualification” out. Injury protection is vital, whether in pro or in college.
And any rev share that disclaims a school’s obligation to enter a player’s name in the portal runs afoul of the player’s express rights - and the school’s express obligations - under the NCAA rules.
By the way, since we’re talking B10, hopefully Wisconsin is no longer conditioning entering a player’s name in the portal on that player signing a release that contains a non-compete (purporting to bar that player from playing for any B10, B12, SEC, ACC and for Notre Dame) … because college athletes aren’t employees, right?
Kristi Dosh@SportsBizMiss
Washington has three grounds for termination not found in the Minnesota or Purdue agreements: -if an athlete is medically disqualified from athletic participation -if a change in head coach occurs or will occur during the term -if an athlete’s athletic aid agreement is terminated by the institution during the term extrapointsmb.com/p/guest-post-w…
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@JonRothstein Except you don’t need to enter the transfer portal to leave your school and enroll in another school.
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Kudos to the NCAA for this.
There will no longer be distractions during March Madness regarding which players are entering the transfer portal.
Total focus will now be on the greatest thing in sports --- the NCAA Tournament.
Jon Rothstein@JonRothstein
The NCAA has announced a new transfer window for basketball.
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