NCAA Rule Change Would Permit Direct Payment to Athletes - Your Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Off topic a tad, but I was a student worker at CAVS during undergrad(I answered the phones. The stuff they worked on was 10 miles above my head), but I had no clue about the split. I thought the university might take a small percentage but it sure as hell isn't a small percentage.

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From what I know, it's a pretty fair split. Without university resources, you wouldn't be doing the research. There are also other opportunities for students to develop their own patents if they are things that develop outside of the university sponsored work.
Point still being - you are able to make money from your intellectual property which is similar to NIL. IF they would actually restricted NIL to "real" NIL opportunities - endorsement deals, video game versions of players, trading cards, etc. we wouldn't be in this mess.

ALL they had to do was let Ed O'Bannon get his $200 for being in an EA Sports video Game!!!

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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg

From what I know, it's a pretty fair split. Without university resources, you wouldn't be doing the research. There are also other opportunities for students to develop their own patents if they are things that develop outside of the university sponsored work.
Point still being - you are able to make money from your intellectual property which is similar to NIL. IF they would actually restricted NIL to "real" NIL opportunities - endorsement deals, video game versions of players, trading cards, etc. we wouldn't be in this mess.

ALL they had to do was let Ed O'Bannon get his $200 for being in an EA Sports video Game!!!

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Well instead of planning for this for years as the O'Bannon lawsuit was going on, hell the thing started in like 2011 or 2012, they just said to hell with it on July 1, 2021 and released NIL with no safeguards. The fact that they thought it would just be used for pure NIL is absolutely laughable. The only people who thought it would be used for that were the guys at the NCAA who released it, John Cohen, and Lee Van Horn.

I don't believe you understand what fair market value is.
These players have a skill set that is wanted. They meet the requirements to attend school and play for said school. Their fair market value is whatever someone is willing to pay.... Just like me at my job. What is not fair market value about that?