Virginia allowing school to pay players

[TheLostDawg]

https://www.si.com/college/2024/04/1...college-sports

[TheLostDawg]

The question is would the ncaa void their winnings if it still hasn't said school paying players is allowed?

[EdwardDrayton]

Virginia:

[TheLostDawg]

Virginia:

Haha. I miss that show

[Cooterpoot]

NCAA membership isn't required but can be revoked, Good luck VA

[Quaoarsking]

That's good. NIL is a joke. Just pay players a salary directly, and then you can put in caps and controls.

I know a lot of people are nostalgic for the "amateurism" fantasy, but a system where the schools and conferences are responsible for paying everyone is going to be a lot more fair, reasonable, and regulated.

[Cooterpoot]

That's good. NIL is a joke. Just pay players a salary directly, and then you can put in caps and controls.

I know a lot of people are nostalgic for the "amateurism" fantasy, but a system where the schools and conferences are responsible for paying everyone is going to be a lot more fair, reasonable, and regulated.

Can't be done without a contract agreement

[starkvegasdawg]

That's good. NIL is a joke. Just pay players a salary directly, and then you can put in caps and controls.

I know a lot of people are nostalgic for the "amateurism" fantasy, but a system where the schools and conferences are responsible for paying everyone is going to be a lot more fair, reasonable, and regulated.

There will always be money under the table. If all schools can offer an athlete $50,000/ year then the best players will go to the schools that make the duffel bag full of cash appear in the backseat of their new charger that appeared in their driveway the week before.

[Quaoarsking]

There will always be money under the table. If all schools can offer an athlete $50,000/ year then the best players will go to the schools that make the duffel bag full of cash appear in the backseat of their new charger that appeared in their driveway the week before.

Who said anything about capping at $50,000? Their market value, at least at the P5 level, will be way more than that.

[Quaoarsking]

Can't be done without a contract agreement

Good. We need those, desperately. Schools and players need to have the option of a multi-year binding-each-way contract, or if one or the other isn't comfortable with that and just wants to do 1 year, at least nobody's blindsided when the year is up and the player enters the portal.

[Todd4State]

Eventually I think booster clubs will become the collectives. Meaning- you belong to the Bulldog Club that is where the NIL money will come from. Which means our dues are about to increase a lot.

[TheLostDawg]

Eventually I think booster clubs will become the collectives. Meaning- you belong to the Bulldog Club that is where the NIL money will come from. Which means our dues are about to increase a lot.

Time to get rid of staff not having to pay and get premium seats

[R2Dawg]

Eventually I think booster clubs will become the collectives. Meaning- you belong to the Bulldog Club that is where the NIL money will come from. Which means our dues are about to increase a lot.

Probably so and in the end, fans get poorer while win totals don't change one bit. Because every other school does the same thing. At end of day, nothing from a fan getting anything for the money will change.

Since we are paying players, a cap is the only thing that can give anyone a fair chance.

[R2Dawg]

That's good. NIL is a joke. Just pay players a salary directly, and then you can put in caps and controls.

I know a lot of people are nostalgic for the "amateurism" fantasy, but a system where the schools and conferences are responsible for paying everyone is going to be a lot more fair, reasonable, and regulated.

Agree with this. Also right now the schools are getting off free. Burden is on the fans, alumni, etc. Burden needs to be on those with hte money.

[starkvegasdawg]

Who said anything about capping at $50,000? Their market value, at least at the P5 level, will be way more than that.

That was just a for example. Regardless of what salary is, if it is capped in any manner then the extra will go under the table.

[SPMT]

That was just a for example. Regardless of what salary is, if it is capped in any manner then the extra will go under the table.

Under the table was way better. The amounts were lower.

The real problem is the transfer rule.

[Quaoarsking]

That was just a for example. Regardless of what salary is, if it is capped in any manner then the extra will go under the table.

Maybe not though. If athletes become unionized employees, it could become a federal crime to give players under-the-table money. After a few players are declared permanently ineligible and a few rogue boosters do to for-real prison, it would end.

[ShotgunDawg]

There will always be money under the table. If all schools can offer an athlete $50,000/ year then the best players will go to the schools that make the duffel bag full of cash appear in the backseat of their new charger that appeared in their driveway the week before.

While true, if you give every teams a salary pool and allow them to distribute it how they like and PUBLICLY report each salary like the NFL does, then when Mississippi State offers Jonny $1 mil and Bama offers $30K but Jonny signs with Bama, it?ll be obvious that cheating happened.

You have to demand that schools publish each player?s salary