04-06-2025, 08:06 PM
(04-06-2025, 06:22 PM)chrisk Wrote: 3.Creating a system to ensure that third-party name, image and likeness deals entered into with student-athletes are legitimate deals that will use the student-athlete's NIL to advance a valid business purpose.
4.Forming a new entity to enforce these rules with an emphasis on efficient investigative procedures, timely decision-making, appropriate penalties, and ensuring accountability for bad actors.
Settle three antitrust cases and open the door to countless more. When will people affiliated with college athletics understand that you cannot artifically restrict an individual's to earn compensation from third parties unless you do so via an employment contract or collectively bargained agreement?
The worst part is that everyone involved in this case from Judge Wilken to the attorneys know this to be true but they are just ready to be done with it. I get it. The lawyers have been working on these cases for years and are about to hit their $400 million payday.
Most FBS programs appear to be structuring their revenue share to be paid out as follows: 75% football, 15% men's basketball, 5% women's basketball, 5% everyone else. Places like Duke will be interesting case studies to see how they deviate from this structure. There is a thought among Big East basketball programs that they will be at an advantage compared to D1 basketball programs at FBS schools (see: Kevin Willard). Regardless of how they do it, I don't see the engine that is Duke basketball slowing down in anyway as a result of the House settlement.
