Not a surprise, but this is the proverbial nail in the coffin.
Everybody is waiting for the CSC to stand up and apply some guardrails to NIL While the conferences all said the right things about wanting guidelines, they were happy to eat like pigs at the NIL trough, for fear of falling behind. A complete failure of leadership by both the NCAA and the conferences.
One byproduct of all this - with this settlement, the NCAA is expected to soon grant all scholarship athletes five years of eligibility. The redshirt will be dead, with no more need to limit players to four games in fear of burning a year.
Personally, I love NIL. Shane Gillis said the quiet part out loud - now that everyone can pay their players, the SEC will no longer dominate.
One result - the NCAA is effectively dead
Replies to: "One result - the NCAA is effectively dead"
- House Settlement - Mark - 9:54am 6/12/25
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- Not so fast my friend. A Title IX appeal might throw a monkey wrench into the discriminatory scheme [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 4:10pm 6/12/25
- Could the current Supreme Court upend title IX? - holybull101 - 5:01pm 6/12/25
- I don't think so. Non-Revenue men's sports may be more at risk at some schools. - jakers - 5:09pm 6/13/25
- !00% I can't imagine a legal argument for finding it unconstitutional. - Curly1918 - 9:54am 6/13/25
- Could the current Supreme Court upend title IX? - holybull101 - 5:01pm 6/12/25
- That CSC thing seems an awful lot like price fixing. The athletes need a union. - LanceManion - 12:13pm 6/12/25
- Think that is coming as well... [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 4:02pm 6/12/25
- One result - the NCAA is effectively dead - Nigel Tufnel - 10:52am 6/12/25
- It sure seems like the facade of the student athlete is dead as well. [NT]
- LanceManion - 12:14pm 6/12/25
- Right...so why are these minor league teams affiliated with college names again? [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 12:21pm 6/12/25
- I can see why the Feds and some states want to de-fund higher ed. When you have $18 B and manage a - LanceManion - 9:00pm 6/12/25
- Are they not required to be enrolled in classes potentially leading to college degrees? - Curly1918 - 12:54pm 6/12/25
- Fine distinctions are falling by the wayside daily. We'll see how some of those shake out... [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 1:00pm 6/12/25
- Right...so why are these minor league teams affiliated with college names again? [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 12:21pm 6/12/25
- It sure seems like the facade of the student athlete is dead as well. [NT]
- LanceManion - 12:14pm 6/12/25
- Thanks Mark. What authority will the CSC have? [NT]
- irish93 - 10:11am 6/12/25
- From what I can tell, it's just another version of the NCAA - Mark - 10:46am 6/12/25
- Not so fast my friend. A Title IX appeal might throw a monkey wrench into the discriminatory scheme [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 4:10pm 6/12/25