(10-02-2019 12:03 PM)niu79 Wrote:  

(10-02-2019 11:54 AM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  

(10-01-2019 08:11 PM)Rabid Squirrel Wrote:  The fears Im hearing sound very similar to the fears when pro sports got heavy into free agency. "the Yankees will just buy all the stars and the Brewers won't get any good players". It's the same thing. Rules will be put into place to "try" and keep things fair. It's not a free market where every player is just open to be bought. It's all gonna be regulated and all deals will be run through a committee and Im guessing subject to conditions. I have zero idea but maybe things like a hard cap for each school per endorser. So Nike can't come in and sign every freshman on Bama because they'd have nothing left to sign tagovailoa. Or vice versa. Maybe a limit on the # of deals a player can sign in a year or career? Take the biggest college star you can ever imagine. There's no way the NCAA or the NFL would let NIKE sign him to a huge contract that pays more than he'd make in the NFL now that draft spots have slotted pay. They're going to let kids get paid but I don't think it will be fair market value. They'll allow them a small percent of what their name rights generate in revenue. It may end up being much less than we think.

The NCAA is going to consider every possible scam that could occur and try to put rules into place to prevent them. Yes, it will get circumvented and someone will find a cheat. But I don't think it will create the chaos some of you feel. Big stars will get most of [/i]the money. Smaller stars will get scraps. and the average player will get nada.

How do you know this? Is there a set #? I mean the NCAA doesn't wan this and will challenge.

I guess the logic is they both play ball with each other and set a max which again becomes a whole new argument. It goes from unfair to not let them earn any money to unfair to cap them.

And let's not kid ourselves. This is just another way for wonderful politicians to find tax revenue.

The NCAA could not win a court challenge to cap the endorsement money. Such a cap would be have to be collectively bargained, and college athletes are not part of a union, let alone employees.

Im sure even a labor lawyer would have a hard time with this. And I'm not even close to one of those so Im just trying to common sense my way through this. But you are right, the athletes are not employees so a cap that is traditionally collectively bargained would not even apply. There is no "salary" to cap. They'd be restricting their outside school related revenue. Which they are already doing. That cap is currently set at zero. I think its easy to cap anything that has the school logo and student's name on it. Jersey, Video game, whatever. Thats easy. You get X% of "school related" revenue you're associated with. The hard part will be the solo stuff like commercials. But if the student wears anything team related or says the team name he will be restricted to the previous X%. And if he can't say or wear his team, is anyone going to pay a low profile player to endorse something??

Just because there is a fair pay to play law doesn't mean the NCAA doesn't have some control. I.E. - Yes...you are free to earn endorsement dollars, but the scholarship you signed says you forfeit tuition when you do so. You can still play and attend school here but it is on you're own dime now. Stuff like that.