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(01-27-2024 12:04 PM)UCBearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  I love UC sports but it’s hard to justify the prices of UCATS, season tickets, NIL collectives, 247 subscriptions, ESPN+, and gear so I quit a bunch of things. I still buy gear and have ESPN+ and even those two things cost a lot.

Like a lot of long time fans and alums I don’t like the direction of college athletics. It’s so out of control that I wonder where the endpoint for all of this will be?

Over the last decade or so I find myself caring a little bit more about MLB and the Reds and a little less about college sports outside of the Bearcats. MLB is still messed up but it’s the sport you can casually follow every day and not get too up or down win or lose. In college sports winning isn’t even enough. It’s about who you beat, how much you win by, TV ratings, and branding.

For reasonably priced, cool and unique UC gear, go to Walmart or TJ Maxx. I have searched internet and store websites and they have the unique items and best prices.

(01-26-2024 03:51 PM)chatcat Wrote:  

(01-26-2024 03:06 PM)BearcatDave Wrote:  These NIL deals are worse than the pro's.. no multi year contracts.

If college athletics is going to mimic professional sports, there should be a salary cap on NILs.

I believe simply doing that would be illegal. If they could cap it, why wouldn't they just cap it at $0? I think you would have to go the collective bargaining route like Rath mentioned, which would be a giant mess.

It's heading to collective bargaining units. No stopping that train. When it arrives I save a lot of $$ and a lot of my time on Saturdays.


Fall weekends will get exponentially longer and way more productive just like they did when I largely stopped watching the NFL.

(01-30-2024 09:00 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  It's heading to collective bargaining units. No stopping that train. When it arrives I save a lot of $$ and a lot of my time on Saturdays.


Fall weekends will get exponentially longer and way more productive just like they did when I largely stopped watching the NFL.

Yep. That's been the goal all along.

And the Supreme Court's unanimous decision saying that the NCAA and NCAA conferences have no authority to regulate player eligibility (and that teams who join NCAA conferences have no authority to regulate their own conference schedule based on the opposing team's player eligibility criteria) made that the only possible outcome.

And so it begins....

Quote:In the 26-page decision, the NLRB said that since the players perform their work for compensation from Dartmouth University, they can be labeled employees under U.S. labor law.

“Because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees within the meaning of the [National Labor Relations] Act,” it said. “Additionally, I find that asserting jurisdiction would not create instability in labor relations.”

(02-06-2024 12:57 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  And so it begins....

Quote:In the 26-page decision, the NLRB said that since the players perform their work for compensation from Dartmouth University, they can be labeled employees under U.S. labor law.

“Because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees within the meaning of the [National Labor Relations] Act,” it said. “Additionally, I find that asserting jurisdiction would not create instability in labor relations.”

T-Minus 2-years before the low to mid-major conference schools transition toan all club sport model to survive.

I'm not sure why any school that doesn't have a realistic chance of being at the top of the heap who are currently operating in the red or on the margins financially wouldn't gut everything except the bare bones to stay Title IX compliant. Tell the conference office that requires minimums in sports to pound sand.