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Jimmy Comerota
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Jimmy Comerota
@JimmyComerota
Ballplayer background. Sport management, economics, business education. Non-profit passion. Innovative entrepreneurship ambition. Faith & family heart.
Houston, TX Katılım Nisan 2016
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@RecruitBoss @marcisenberg This guy will never be happy with any rules. Don’t try to reason with him.
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@marcisenberg Why would they get Covid year if they didn’t lose eligibility because of Covid?
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The Frosh class that entered in 2022 got no COVID year, walked into a backlog of players who did—and now gets hit again because the NCAA and members waited until after the portal to act. Unfair, but right on brand.
Pete Thamel@PeteThamel
NEWS: NCAA President Charlie Baker told ESPN today that he’s “pretty optimistic” that the new aged-based eligibility proposal will happen. The DI Board of Directors met today and will recommend to not implement this rule retroactively for graduates/exhausted eligibility. “If you’ve used up your eligibility, you’ve used it up,” Baker told ESPN of the tenor of the discussion.
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@marcisenberg Everyone’s over it man. The kids have everything they could ever want now and taxpayers are getting stuck with the bill in every state in the country. There’s nothing to even argue or fight for anymore. Just enjoy the games.
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TPG just paid $2 bil for Learfield, which provides outsourcing for college athletics. It monetizes the most commercially valuable part of the ecosystem: multimedia rights. Some like to call it amateurism. The market calls it a $2 bil asset. Article: open.substack.com/pub/truthinnil…
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@g1179494 @greg11794494 Reset. I’m nobody and want nothing. But…even you need to hear it and you know it. What’s next? Where do we all go from here. Good luck.
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I probably shouldn’t think this is as funny as I do, but I love it and can’t stop watching. Haha.
Barstool Sports@barstoolsports
We’ve got kids throwing haymakers during intermission of a professional hockey game
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Let’s say you’re right about all the things just for the sake of argument and the discussion.
Even with all the stars aligned, who do you think a unionized group of athletes will negotiate with that will have the ability to enter into a CBA that’s sufficient for you and all the lawyers?
NCAA? Each conference? Each state?
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Way to move the goal line. Losing at the state level, losing in courts and US Congress unlikely to “save” college sports doesn’t leave many options left other than negotiating with groups of athletes.
Jimmy Comerota@JimmyComerota
@marcisenberg @AD_DannyWhite @JeramiahDickey @coachbrucepearl Gotcha. So, you think anyone who says it’s an idea that should be explored means they want it to happen. Maybe you can clarify with them if they’re actually going to push that across, or if they’re just tossing around things. Seems like a relevant difference.
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@marcisenberg @AD_DannyWhite @JeramiahDickey @coachbrucepearl Gotcha. So, you think anyone who says it’s an idea that should be explored means they want it to happen.
Maybe you can clarify with them if they’re actually going to push that across, or if they’re just tossing around things. Seems like a relevant difference.
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@JimmyComerota You claimed: “Theres nobody who works in the industry who wants a CBA between the entity or the union.”
Nada?👌
Can name 3 prominent ADs who have expressed interest in collective bargaining: Joe Castiglione
@AD_DannyWhite
@JeramiahDickey
Even @coachbrucepearl is on board
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“Theres nobody who works in the industry who wants a CBA between the entity or the union.” As a math teacher would say, show your work.
Jimmy Comerota@JimmyComerota
@marcisenberg There’s no union to negotiate on behalf of employees. There’s no employee for a union to negotiate with. Theres nobody who works in the industry who wants a CBA between the entity or the union. There’s no path to a CBA.
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Got it. So, you’d like a CBA to prevent this happening and not just an arbitrary NCAA rule that’s likely illegal per US employment law. However, you’re well aware that either way the rule will wind up being the same.
Sort of my point all in all. If we agree there, I don’t care to spend time on this any further.
Best of luck to you and your rich and famous friends.
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@JimmyComerota @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg And finally, as I've now said several time, a CBA can prevent ex NBA players from playing Div I college sports.
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@FelsMcDowell @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg Do you think a CBA with current college players would allow for former NBA players to come and take their spot and their money?
Also, do you think that’s a good net result for high school and younger kids?
Does either matter? Or, is it all just about your friend?
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@JimmyComerota @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg I would prefer that
-things stay just as they are, meaning
-my friend can get a well deserved payday playing at college. This is the ideal outcome, to me, and it appears that US courts agree.
A CBA is the only legal way to prevent large numbers of ex NBA players doing this.
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Oh, I agree the NCAA has no idea what it’s doing either. They’ve done more to dig their own grave over 50 years than anyone else. Yet, even with them trying to form another entity that gets themselves out of their own monopolistic business they’re still around. How is that possible? Because they dont and never did matter.
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@JimmyComerota @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg The entities I observe "racking up the hours" for something that is "never going to happen" are NCAA lobbyists and legal teams asking Congress for US antitrust law to magically not apply to them. This has not happened, despite their years of expensive time consuming efforts.
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He can still get a college degree. I’d applaud that. Sounds like he doesn’t want to “go to college”, he wants to get paid by colleges. And yeah, if there was a CBA the current players would probably craft a rule against him. Not sure why you think a CBA would ever help your friend go back to getting paid by colleges after getting paid by NBA owners.
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@_CATNERD2 @JimmyComerota @marcisenberg You might read the following papers if you are interested in the topicm
That said, I personally have an ex NBA friend who wants to return to college. I hope he can. I am doubtful that college players are excited to welcome him and many others like him.
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Marc Edelman@MarcEdelman
I expect there to be a lot in the media about college athlete unionization this week, claiming the topic is novel, complicated and filled with unanswered challenges. Before you buy into that narrative, consider this: 1. I published this in the 2017 Cardozo Law Review, entitled "The Future of College Athlete Players Unions": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 2 John Holden, @McCannSportsLaw and I published this together, in the 2023 Illinois Law Review, entitled "The Collegiate Employee-Athlete": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 3. John Holden, @McCannSportsLaw and I published this together, in the 2025 Fordham Law Review, entitled "Life After Employee Status in College Sports": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #NCAA🤔
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Even if the players can form whatever they want. They need someone to negotiate with. Who exactly will agree to a CBA with them? The schools? conferences? Will states allow whatever they agree to?
The reason a CBA won’t happen is the players can’t organize AND the schools/conferences/and states who taxpayer funds pay for all this nonsense can’t organize AND even both can agree they don’t live in a silo alongside other sports/tv contracts/donor dollars/new private equity dollars.
Sorry. But legal issues are the most minor issues here. It’s not that not illegal but it’s impractical.
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@_CATNERD2 @JimmyComerota @marcisenberg Players in revenue sports fb & mbb can be designated as employees of their respective conferences.
As employees they can form unions, just as the NFL and NBA have unions. As union members they can negotiate a CBA as WNBA players are currently doing. 🤷♂️
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NBA to CBB? What about football? What about Baseball? What about women’s sports?
“Oh yeah, it’ll be by sport” Okay, so let’s assume there’s a union per sport.
Who do they negotiate with? School? Conference? NCAA? Remember, most of these are state institutions. There’s not an organization for the group of athletes to negotiate with either.
lol. “A CBA” is simply not a thing. It’s like dozens of CBAs all drawing from the same TV and state funded tax dollars.
It’s literally not happening and people need to get off the crazy train of demanding it.
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@FelsMcDowell @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg lol. What rule will current players put in place through a CBA that keeps others out but allows themselves to maximize their own opportunities? There isn’t man. A CBA is a utopia the lawyers are pitching while they rack up the hours.
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@JimmyComerota @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg This but multiply it many times over is about to happen unless a CBA materializes. Which seems fine to me, a fan. It may not be fine for college athletes who are suddenly going to get a new very large category of competition.
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AfroBallers@afroballers
21-Year-Old Nigerian Basketball Player, James Nnaji, who was the No. 31 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, has decided to play College Basketball with Baylor University. James will join the Baylor team in the second half of the College Basketball season and becomes an IMMEDIATE ADDITION to their firepower standing at 7"0, 250 pounds with a 7'7 wingspan. He also comes with ton of experience having played three season in the Euro league & the NBA Summer League. He will now link up with another AfroBaller in Tounde Yessoufou at BAYLOR ⚡ #AfroBallers
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@FelsMcDowell @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg lol. What rule will current players put in place that keeps others out but allows themselves to maximize their own opportunities?
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@JimmyComerota @_CATNERD2 @marcisenberg Why would college players want to share roster space, playing time, and salary with numerous ex NBA players, who will likely be showing up soon in the absence of a CBA?
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What group of athletes? Will agree with what group of schools? To what what universal rules?
There’s no path to a CBA. Seriously, you experts have already done your damage on college athletics. Congrats on destroying what we had. Stop demanding something that has absolutely zero path to ever happening.
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Hey, why not?! 🤣🤣
Just have to agree to collective bargaining so it’s not flagged as human trafficking 🤔
Fran Fraschilla@franfraschilla
Hearing a rumor that an ACC program with plenty of depth in the backcourt is looking to make an in-season trade with a Big 10 team who need one needs one more guard before conference play. Cash considerations may be involved along with a future pick.
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@marcisenberg Because there is no path to a CBA. Get off the crazy train.
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Coach Cal with commonsense suggestions to improve college basketball. But nothing he says would hold up in court so I just wasted 6 minutes listening to another coach rant that doesn’t mention collective bargaining. 🤷🏼♂️
John Nabors@JohnNaborsShow
John Calipari goes OFF for nearly SEVEN MINUTES about current state of college athletics & the Trentyn Flowers story in CBB. I haven't seen him this fired up in a press conference...ever?
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@marcisenberg There’s no union to negotiate on behalf of employees. There’s no employee for a union to negotiate with. Theres nobody who works in the industry who wants a CBA between the entity or the union. There’s no path to a CBA.
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