Yes we can pay players, but let’s do it fairly, shall we?
Unbeknownst to many, college leaders have created a new committee with the expressed mission to study the future of FBS governance and determine if the subdivision should operate outside of the NCAA structure — a long-discussed move gaining more momentum than ever.
But there is, perhaps, something even more serious brewing: a frustration from those in many power leagues at the lack of enforcement from the NCAA — and College Sports Commission too — over allegations of tampering of college athletes, eligibility rulings and the circumvention of the industry’s new roster spending cap.
For some, a solution is emerging: Each conference should govern itself, enforce its own rules and, perhaps even, compete solely with its own members.
“If the CSC is not going to enforce the House settlement, if the NCAA is not going to enforce tampering rules and if Congress is not going to pass the SCORE Act, then it leaves the SEC in a position that we have to go our own way to create some rules and a level of responsibility,” Georgia president Jere Morehead, a former chair of the NCAA DI Board of Directors, told Yahoo Sports earlier this month. “We’d be able to make a much stronger argument that we are not in violation of antitrust rules because we don’t have market power.”
”We have to go our own way to create some rules and a level of responsibility” is doing some heavy lifting in the NIL era of college sports, Jere. Case in point:
Cough.
It is all about the money 💰.
Screw the University leaders
I guess I didn’t pay enough attention to Ty Simpson not being in the portal. Definitely against NCAA rules for him to be offered. Not gonna hold my breath on enforcement.
It’s only tampering if you admit to tampering, getting caught isn’t whut you think it is…GO DAWGS!!
As much as I hate it, and it’s gonna eventually kill college football (at least in the sense of how grew up learning to love it), but I’m coming around to breaking it away from the rest of the NCAA. The conferences make zero sense and that’s eventually going to kill the rest of the sports. I saw last night that UCLA was playing a midweek game at Penn State. That is utterly moronic and unsustainable in all but two sports. It gets even dumber when you get to baseball, softball, volleyball, etc.
Break out football and have the conferences reconstitute into something similar to what they were before the SWC blew up.
This is a great idea until you realize that the TV contracts and conference networks make that almost impossible.
Wow, the SEC doesn’t have market power??? And here (almost) everyone associated with the SEC has been patting themselves on the back and circle-jerking each other about how big and awesome and important they are for the past 30 years….
Jere is talking about market power in the Sherman Antitrust Act context.
It’s time for the Power 4 to sever their relationship totally from the NCAA and form a new governing body with 4 member conferences (where all competitions are among the teams in the new organization). Yes, that means coming up with their own (or different) version of March Madness. The problem is they can’t find anything to agree upon. To Notre Dame, U2 has some words for you:
https://youtu.be/ujNeHIo7oTE?si=Cgkx824141t5tZbE
It’s impossible to put toothpaste back in a tube at scale, and the politicians definitely aren’t coming to the rescue.
In your mind, given the way NCAA (which is made up of member schools) has handled post O’Bannon, what problem would breaking away actually solve?
You could start over with a relationship between college and athlete that makes sense in a post-O’Bannon world. The Power 4 are tied down like Gulliver by the other 280+ Lilliputian schools that play some form of D1 sports.
SEC schools like utk and aubie have elevated cheating to a fine art. So yeah, let’s sit down with them to work out a system to write enforceable rules.
Ohio State media posted articles where they missed on Nate Frazier after offering him a big NIL deal. He never entered the portal either. It’s the wild, wild, west folks.
If Nate turned down significant money from OSU, that cements his status as DGD forever. I told you I would know it when I saw it.
I don’t know how you can have an enforceable rule prohibiting contact with an agent.
What if the agent reps players on your roster? You can’t call your qb’s agent and say:
Sure would like to get our boy a RB for next year. You know any?
I rep Nate Frazier.
If he were in the portal we’d offer that guy $X.
Thanks for the call.
How could you possibly police that? Or even want to?
Yep, there are plenty of workarounds for the tampering rule.
I imagine it worked similarly with transfers before the NIL era too. College coaches and high school coaches still talk.
HS coach: That RB you liked is kinda regretting his decision to go to that other school.
College coach: We’d still take him on our roster in a heartbeat.
HS coach talks to the player and then they’re barely in the portal for a nanosecond before announcing their new destination. Is that tampering?
How long before we see multi year contracts from the collectives to secure a player for longer than 1 year?
Jere…please keep your mouth shut. I lose more respect for you every time you say something about football.
Can you imagine Sankey in sole charge of enforcements and rulings. Kirby will be suspended for wearing a visor. Texas and Alabama will be awarded auto-entry into the SECCG “playoffs”. Auburn will cheat and sue everybody.
This has got to be a bad and embarrassing negotiating ploy. Only 2 conferences can produce a schedule and Disney won’t go for it. They need permission for a merger so are just threatening to break away. I’m convinced they are just going to continue to say and do stupid stuff until Washington comes to the rescue.
I wonder if the Senator would have voluntarily checked out by now. I love my Dawgs and the excitement of game day, but the playoffs are starting to show that building a team and sustaining excellence are no longer the pathway to a national championship. Thank God for ‘21 & ‘22. I don’t know we’ll see another and if we do I wonder if will feel the same at all?
Don’t think we will. That ship has sailed and there is a bomb(ncaa) on it! Go Dawgs!!”
If the conferences can make their own rules then a conference can institute a rule prohibiting teams from running RPOs. Which rules would apply to interconfetence games?
still firmly believe sec will breakaway and be a standalone league.