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Philip Sheng

@PhilipNILIP

Partner at Venable LLP | IP Attorney | NIL | Sports Law | Former ATP Pro and D1 🎾 for @StanfordTennis | LDS

California, USA Katılım Şubat 2020
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Mathewiandolo
Mathewiandolo@CoachMat11·
@CTennisNation I believe BC is completely non scholarship on the men’s side …..so not fair even posting them
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College Tennis Nation
College Tennis Nation@CTennisNation·
These programs have posted the lowest conference win percentages over the last five seasons % Which team surprises you the most?
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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
@GiVInvestment Other schools are in a similar hole that I wouldn’t consider middle of the pack in terms of legacy and brand. USC and UCLA for example.
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GiVInvestments
GiVInvestments@GiVInvestment·
@PhilipNILIP Welcome to life as a middle of the pack Division I team in today’s college football world, especially when you eschew PE.
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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
No penalty at all for breaching your end of the deal? Players should be free to take the money and walk whenever they want? 🤔 That seems more unreasonable than the school demanding 50% of the remaining contract. 50% of remaining contract might actually be upheld. The longer you stay the less you owe. I don’t quite understand the bylaws point. Simply because bylaws allow a player to transfer doesn’t mean other rules and laws don’t apply to you. The deliverables point is just the structure of payments being spread out over time.
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Ryan P. Mulvaney
Ryan P. Mulvaney@ryanpmulvaney·
I strike the LD language entirely on the basis that availing oneself to rights expressly afforded to college athletes pursuant to existing bylaws is not a breach at all. Also, by the time plates enter the portal, the season is over and their deliverables have already been performed by that time.
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Ryan P. Mulvaney
Ryan P. Mulvaney@ryanpmulvaney·
The phrase, “transfer-related breach of contract,” is frustrating to me. The punitive LD provision is equally as frustrating - I read something like this and just shake my head. I wonder if the players were represented by someone other than an agent because the language of LD provision in the agreements at issue is punitive (IMO) and should have been either negotiated out entirely or severely limited in favor of the college athletes. The NCAA Bylaws expressly permit college players to enter the transfer portal. This is also why college athletes need lawyers to negotiate these agreements. The LD provision is a non-starter for me, nevermind when it requires college athletes to pay half of the remaining money they would have been but have not been paid pursuant to the contract. College players: please READ (and revise) and understand the consequences of each provision BEFORE you sign rev share agreements.
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw

More lawsuits by a school against football players that transferred and allegedly breached their rev share contracts. The relevant contracts call for the players to pay liquidated damages equal to 50% of the compensation remaining at the time of breach. tapinto.net/towns/boca-rat…

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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
You get 5 years and clock starts ticking at 19 makes a lot of sense to me. I believe there will be exceptions for time taken for military service and religious missions. I believe no more medical exemptions but will be interesting to see what they do for certain scenarios, like pregnancy.
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notyourcountryclub
notyourcountryclub@showfortennis·
@PhilipNILIP @UTR_Sports_ @WakeMTennis Will be curious to see how it is implemented. Seems basketball made them take action after all the Euro League commits. Do you believe the 5 years after hs graduation rule or an age limit make sense?
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notyourcountryclub
notyourcountryclub@showfortennis·
DK Suresh is 26 years old, but still feels far from his ceiling. Curious to see if full-time Life on Tour unlocks another gear. Go Deacs 🎩
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Noah Henderson
Noah Henderson@NoahImgLikeness·
@ryanpmulvaney Sophisticated agents know they are likely unenforceable and use it as leverage after the fact to discount the exit price. It is bad faith behavior
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Aaron Gogley
Aaron Gogley@AaronGogley·
Besides @heitner needing to hire me to make his legal charts, he makes a good case for why the NCAA should never have provided exceptions or waivers. In trying to be fair it actually made things worse.
Darren Heitner@heitner

I created a chart for the judge in Tristan Smith v NCAA, where we are seeking an extra year of eligibility for the Clemson wide receiver. If this comparison of Smith and Malik Benson doesn’t show the NCAA has acted in a demonstrably arbitrary and inconsistent manner, then 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Mars
Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
I’m not sure Brendan Sorsby is going to get very far by explaining his behavior using the same rationale that gang members use for committing gang-related crimes. But I guess it’s worth a try. 🤷🏻‍♂️
On3@On3

NEW: Brendan Sorsby bet on Indiana Football in 2022 to feel more 'connected with the team,' per his affidavit in court documents. "I rationalized placing those bets as a way to feel more connected to the team, to root for my friends, and to feel like I had a real 'stake' in the games that I otherwise was not involved in." He later added: "Because the Indiana football team was not a very strong competitor in 2022, I lost most of the bets I placed." on3.com/news/texas-tec…

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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
@CTennisNation Timing was the result of the player’s decision to shop himself while competing in the post-season still, no?
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College Tennis Nation
College Tennis Nation@CTennisNation·
Appreciate this. Funny how people only hate ‘reporting news’ when it’s college tennis. Every other sport has insiders and portal coverage 24/7. The sport grows when it’s treated like a real sport. Coaches and players in other sports don’t react like this when portal news gets reported because it’s already normalized everywhere else. Maybe the timing wasn’t ideal, and I can understand people feeling emotional about it, but at the end of the day CTN was simply reporting news whenever it was received. The goal is simply covering the sport and keeping fans informed. Never personal.
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP

I have no skin in the game here. Genuinely curious what was wrong with reporting the transfer decision? If this was any other sport or any other outlet or X account, we’d be directing all our angst toward the coaches and player, not the person who broke the news. Such a bad look for the player but we’re here yelling at this CTN guy?

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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
I have no skin in the game here. Genuinely curious what was wrong with reporting the transfer decision? If this was any other sport or any other outlet or X account, we’d be directing all our angst toward the coaches and player, not the person who broke the news. Such a bad look for the player but we’re here yelling at this CTN guy?
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College Tennis Nation
College Tennis Nation@CTennisNation·
Coach, with all due respect, I’m not trying to create issues with you or your program, but I do need to be clear about where I stand. CTN operates as a news platform, and when credible information comes in, we report it. That’s the standard I’ve built the page on from day one, and respectfully, I don’t need permission to report any news. I understand not everyone is going to like the timing of certain posts, but I can’t run a breaking news outlet while also waiting on approval from programs before reporting information. That defeats the entire purpose of what I do. This isn’t personal toward you or your team at all. I respect the work coaches put in, and I’ve always tried to handle things professionally. But this is also something I’ve invested a lot of time into building, and it’s become a real business for me. Asking me to remove commitment news puts me in a difficult position because consistency and credibility are everything in this space. At the end of the day, I’m simply reporting information that I receive. Nothing more, nothing less. Hopefully our paths cross again down the road and we get the chance to coach against each other one day.
Jamie Hunt@CoachJamieHunt

@ByJustinLee @CTennisNation Andrew signed with us a week ago but we were intentionally waiting until after his current team was finished with their season to announce. He did not have permission to post this.

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NIL 𝘯𝘰𝘵 NLI
NIL 𝘯𝘰𝘵 NLI@NILnotNLI·
NCAA Division 1 VCU mandatory student fees next year: • Library Fee ($92) • Technology Fee ($331) • Athletics Fee ($1,501)
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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
@Matt_Manasse This is in a world where collectives ran NIL. This does not exist today post-House settlement.
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Matt Manasse
Matt Manasse@Matt_Manasse·
For many athletic departments, 50% of the departments yearly budget can come from private donors. This money is now being put into NIL funds. If a tennis coach can convince their NIL to fund the team to that extent, it happens. It’s not sustainable but it’s happening. Glad Im out
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP

Zero chance the school itself is paying $600K in rev share to its tennis team. Zero. Individual players might be securing third party NIL deals, and certain players are raking it in (e.g., Anna Frey) but except for elite players and highly recruited junior stars, no school is lighting NIL money on fire in tennis.

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Philip Sheng
Philip Sheng@PhilipNILIP·
Zero chance the school itself is paying $600K in rev share to its tennis team. Zero. Individual players might be securing third party NIL deals, and certain players are raking it in (e.g., Anna Frey) but except for elite players and highly recruited junior stars, no school is lighting NIL money on fire in tennis.
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Matt Manasse
Matt Manasse@Matt_Manasse·
@PhilipNILIP Enough that it’s a problem. For example, I know a women’s team that didn’t even do that well all things considered that spent $600k on their roster. I’ve heard men’s teams that spent even more at major programs. I know a girl at an ACC I heard that got great $$$.
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Matt Manasse
Matt Manasse@Matt_Manasse·
And many are receiving $100-150k in NIL a year on top of their scholarships to compete for these teams. The real question is: how does the school benefit? It’s essentially lighting money on fire. Not sustainable and D1 as a whole needs to come together and look at this.
Patrick McEnroe@PatrickMcEnroe

Congrats to TCU, Texas, Wake Forest and Virginia on reaching the NCAA men’s tennis Final Four. By my count: 24 singles starters. 3 from the USA. It’s not about one school or one match. It’s about the overall numbers — and what they mean for the American college tennis pathway.

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