Michael S. White

@CodyC64 @USATODAY Amen, amen, amen! Keep preaching, Cody.

This op-ed was published Friday in @USAToday, and establishes a critical perspective on College Sports reform, and should be guide the outcome of any solution that emerges. College sports are important to the entire country, and owned by the American Public - not by any individual, a single institution or by special interests. We should fully focus on preservation of all the sports, all of the school, and protection of all the athletes and communities to which they matter deeply.

@AGoldFan Caleb would like to have a word.

Duke has mitigated three deficiencies all season. 1) overall lack of elite quickness and athleticism. They’re not plodding, but quickness will bother them. 2) not a great 3-point shooting team. 3) don’t really have a point guard who commands game. All 3 hurting them now

Had a blast taking our @GCSportStudies students to @ItsBristolBaby last week. At @GuilfordCollege, these type of experiential learning/network opportunities are part of what makes a #UniquelyGuilford student.

A little fun with Coach @NickiCollen during the postgame presser last night. I was not much help catching her. She laughed it off like a pro.

@ForbesWakeHoops Agree, Coach!

NCAA Bball is the only league in the world where games are played with several different brands of balls; Nike, Wilson, Under Armour, Spaulding, Adidas etc. depending on who and where you play; all are different. The NBA plays with 1 ball, FIBA plays with 1 ball, why can't we?

Let’s just say this good girl, Rina, stole the show today at the NCAA pre-tournament media availability in Cameron.

Covered the 2001 game as sports editor of the Bristol Herald Courier. Made the mistake of looking for flight tickets to Pasadena after LSU lost their starting QB and RB to injury early. Had no idea the Tennessee D had never seen a draw play. They saw them over and over that night.

I’ve got two: the LSU-Tennessee 2001 SEC title game — the Matt Mauck QB sneak game — & Tennessee at South Carolina 2022.

@AGoldFan What the hell did we all just watch?

Canes have allowed 4 goals in the 3rd period on 4 scoring chances.

@AGoldFan Hey everyone, just flush the game in Columbus and let’s all go see if USA Baseball can find some offense.

We're at the point where #CanesTwitter and I need a break from each other.

@AGoldFan And thanks! See, some of Canes twitter is reasonable.

@mikewhitePR But, I see your point

Canes were off to a good start. Created a couple of good chances. Then the Jarvis double minor and they are now a little fortunate to still just be one goal down. Couple of give aways in their own end have led to CBJ chances.

@AGoldFan Fair

@mikewhitePR Miller deflected the initial pass on the first power play goal which Jankowski needed to get to first -- think he might have been surprised by Johnson -- and it was maybe more on Aho to tie up Marchment. Second one was just a great pass and finish.

@DanMurphyESPN No kidding …

"It’s fair to say the NIL market in college athletics is not a normal, organic market. It’s a market in which schools are manufacturing NIL for their student-athletes," Seeley said.

Steve Berman, one of athletes' lawyers in the House settlement, says he contacted the NCAA yesterday to raise concerns about the system for vetting NIL deals -- both its speed and some of the deals being denied. "We're pushing to see where this might go," he said.

@WinterSportsLaw But that antitrust exemption sure would end the debates and also allow programs/NCAA/labor and everyone else to stop wasting money on attorney fees.

College athletics has wasted so much time and effort fighting against what is now almost certainly its inevitable endpoint. As Matt alludes to, creating more legally unenforceable rules that people aren’t going to follow doesn’t solve anything.

@JysonWiseman10S @NILnotNLI Yep!

@NILnotNLI Those of us who actually understand the issues should get together and combine our voices to try to help shape the resolution. Right now too many people with agendas that aren't about sustaining ALL sports in the NCAA model have too much of a voice in the process.

USC cost of attendance next year: $103,162 "Athletes aren't paid"

@Genetics56 Schools are not supposed to be involved with NIL deals. It’s the S-A who is “technically” able to capitalize on their NIL rights, on their own. When the institution gets involved, it’s pay for play.

These media rights NIL deals should 100% be legal. These are private businesses making deals with the schools for access to the value of the athletes. This is NORMAL business operations, even if they are futures contracts.

@hkeysk8 @bbnrj5 @soudipop @McCannSportsLaw This can’t work due to Title IX. If you have only two revenue generating men’s sports, you can’t simply have no women’s sports.

No matter how hard the President, the NCAA, conference commissioners and other high-powered people in college sports try, the old college sports world isn't coming back. Best to accept reality. There's a new world, and in it, the labor gets paid. sportico.com/law/analysis/2….

Great question. If you are talking about women’s sports, they can’t cut those due to Title IX. There’s actually never been a single women’s sport to ever be cut (people have tried but courts force their return). As for men’s sports, cuts are happening all the time to Olympic, non-revenue sports. And as for the revenue sports, it’s a Catch 22. Institutions have to have them to generate at least some revenue and there is always pressure from alumni who have grown accustomed to their fandom to have these experiences. It gives “value” to their degrees. But one point needs to be made, for many years institutions could make up the deficits with more and more requests to donors or through tuition/student fee/tax payers subsidies. Those revenue lines are drying up, as are their rainy day funds. It’s all coming to a tipping point.

@mikewhitePR @hkeysk8 @bbnrj5 @McCannSportsLaw Here’s a question — if it’s this bad, and so obviously broken, why don’t the schools just do it? If there’s truly no value, why not just cut those sports?

We will have to agree to disagree. And it’s not my hobby. The sports industry has actually been my career, and I would advocate for salary cap guard rails across college athletics … not just for student athletes. The highest paid state employee should not be a football head coach. And what I’m advocating for is not that much different than the antitrust exemptions or similar that exist already in MLB, the NFL or NBA.

@mikewhitePR @WinterSportsLaw It will self correct to the form it should have always been. So you are advocating for sustainability to preserve your hobby by taking adults rights away from a select group only and penalizing them and no one else? Think about that…..

College athletes shouldn’t have their compensation artificially limited (or other rights limited/taken away) unless they formally agree to it in the same manner as athletes in the NFL, NBA, etc. That’s one of the issues with bills like the SCORE Act.

@rlackey23 @WinterSportsLaw That approach is just not sustainable. It’s just not. Say good bye to great Olympic squads and women’s sports if we keep this up. Let’s just hope we find some leadership with real answers.

@mikewhitePR @WinterSportsLaw to the college sports I love I am more against putting rules in place to penalize others we don’t apply to anyone else. It’s wrong. The collegiate sports market will self correct. The schools should classify them as employees and put them under contract if they don’t like this