What's next for student-athletes in a world where “jock ocracy” reigns supreme?
Many college football and basketball players are making millions of dollars through their name, image, and recognition starting in 2021. Remember, they also get countless freebies that regular students don't get, including free scholarships, medical care, scientific nutrition, and top-notch medical care. Training and overall health care.
“The simple truth is that they now benefit from an array of scholarships and other mechanisms that schools offer to enhance their educational experience,” NCAA President Charlie Baker said Thursday at the House of Representatives Subdivision in Washington, D.C. I spoke to the committee about the NIL issue.
Should athletes be free to transfer multiple times?
And then, a few months later, if a player doesn't like the school they've invested so much in themselves and spent years deciding on, they can simply go to the NCAA transfer portal and take a year off like they used to. You can find a new school without having to. . This rule forced players to think before they jump. Alternatively, you can transfer as a graduate school transfer to play for an additional year or two without taking a break after graduation.
Are you graduating? I'd love to see some of the jumbled transcripts and graduation rates if a popular lawsuit against the NCAA that requires athletes to transfer multiple times without penalty passes happens. The lawsuit continued to gain momentum Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Justice, along with 10 other states and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit challenging the NCAA's transfer eligibility rules. The Justice Department calls the rule an “unlawful restriction” on college athletes' “ability to promote their image and likeness and control their education.”
There was some interesting text written there. If a college athlete is truly interested in his or her education, changing schools multiple times can in itself cause them to lose control of their education. Since no-impact transfers began in 2021, we haven't heard of any players transferring because they didn't like their school's geology program. Most of the time, it's because you can't beat the player in front of you.
College athletes navigate NCAA transfer portal
This is why I refer to the NCAA Transfer Portal as the NCAA Backup Portal, or NCAA Quitter Portal.
“Unlawful Restrictions on the Ability of College Athletes to Sell Their Image and Likeness.” what? An athlete who transfers to another school and plays in the next season in just a few months can usually earn more of her NIL income thanks to the transfer.
Players can also blackmail their original school and get more NIL funds at their original school by entering the portal. Believe me, many of these athletes are unrestrained.
But the jock sniffer keeps moving. The District of Columbia, Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia also joined Ohio in its initial lawsuit Thursday. States that have joined the party so far include Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
“There is power in numbers,” exclaimed Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in a press release Thursday. “If so many athletes hadn't been excluded by the NCAA's arbitrary and unfair rules, this lawsuit would never have happened. We are fighting for better competition and long-term change. .”
How about changing schools as soon as you realize that you are not starting to “compete better”?
Transferring players too early in their college careers is often short-sighted. And too often these decisions are made by true freshmen who are too young to fully consider the “long-term” consequences.
Sticking to it is a better form of education. By the way, what's the problem with missing a year? Players are stronger, more skilled and can actually find out where all the classrooms are.
No trial date has been scheduled for this case.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost criticizes NCAA
“This shows that the Ohio State-led lawsuit against the NCAA is on solid footing,” Dave Yost said in a video conference.
Establish solid footing or just join the bandwagon against NCAA and Jock O'Cracy?
“The fact that other states are joining and the federal government is joining our case is a sign that others see us as right under the law,” Yost said. Ta.
Or recognize that something is trending.
“The NCAA has evolved over time, but since recent court decisions, it has become increasingly clear that the model that worked in 1993 is not the model that works today, nor is it a legitimate model. “It's becoming,” Yost said. “It's time to recognize that college sports has become big, big business. And it should be treated as such, under the same kinds of laws, the same competitive requirements, that other companies have to abide by. You need to be taught.”
Charlie Baker criticizes countries' involvement in NCAA issues
However, other businesses are much more organized than the way portals and NIL were managed in the early days. For example, there is a clutter of unorganized state laws across the country that undermine the uniformity of portals and his NIL.
That's one reason Charlie Baker attended a House subcommittee hearing on the NIL Handbook (proposed future legislation to protect student-athlete trade rights) Thursday at the Capitol. It's a department.
“Each state passes laws that disadvantage schools in other states,” Baker said. “We need legal backing for regulations that provide consumer protection, such as some form of uniform contracting. By the way, this also exists in other financial markets in the United States. Too many people are currently completely unbalanced. In a world where we feel that this is the case, we need to create what we might call equilibrium.”
It is clearly disproportionate for a player to be transferred twice in over two years and should be stopped.
