Article backing up what I've been saying about House settlement

[Cooterpoot]

The $20.5MM is more like a salary and the NIL is the bonus. NIL will never get limited. Until there's a union and collective bargaining agreement, which will also eliminate a number of P4 schools, none of this really changes.

[HoopsDawg]

The $20.5MM is more like a salary and the NIL is the bonus. NIL will never get limited. Until there's a union and collective bargaining agreement, which will also eliminate a number of P4 schools, none of this really changes.

Agree. It's impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube on NIL without collective bargaining. The committee couldn't stop a booster from buying 100k jerseys of a player we wanted.

I wonder about the negative unintended consequence of revenue sharing beyond the obvious.

[Brobi-wan]

I think most of us might love NIL if we were benefiting from it and winning NCs on the regular.

I imagine over time some parity will return when things are divided up. I don?t see how lower tier teams can contribute in any meaningful way to football at this point. I don?t think MSU is a lower tier team. Just a bottom of the rung upper tier.

I have seen some on here say they wish MSU would be left out of a super conference and play against the NIUs of CFB. I can?t imagine anyone really believes that would benefit MSU in any real way, and it would basically be an abortion on all of our other athletic programs. Including the much beloved baseball program.

[confucius say]

The $20.5MM is more like a salary and the NIL is the bonus. NIL will never get limited. Until there's a union and collective bargaining agreement, which will also eliminate a number of P4 schools, none of this really changes.

A settlement is collectively bargained. I don't think people understand that current players (and players through 2035) are the plaintiffs in House.

Now I don't know how aggressive the clearinghouse will be in rejecting NIL deals, but players have already agreed to be bound by the clearinghouse decision, or if they are unhappy with a decision, to submit it to arbitration instead of a lawsuit.

I do think under the table money like the old days will resurface more.