NCAA & Power Conferences Lobbying Juggernaut
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What does the potential NCAA settlement mean for Marquette and the Big East?
An enormous NCAA settlement is coming, and you won’t believe who is going to end up paying the price.
painttouches.com
i'll admit- im too lazy to piece together the "happenings" with research... but can someone who thinks highly of their summary ability esspplain...?
-The Big East is forced to pay more than they should in backpay of ex players?
-Schools can now be considered school employees- and get paid by the schools?
-The Big East is forced to pay more than they should in backpay of ex players?
-Schools can now be considered school employees- and get paid by the schools?
Essentially, with details and the fine print to follow.
Remember always,
“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away”
Tom Waits from “Step Right Up”
Thebelow posted article entitled “What does the potential NCAA settlement mean for Marquette and the Big East?” appeared on the Marquette fan website.
I believe this article summarize the challenges to the Big East as well as any other article I have read
What does the potential NCAA settlement mean for Marquette and the Big East?
An enormous NCAA settlement is coming, and you won’t believe who is going to end up paying the price.
painttouches.com
I would think a lot of other questions when you get into the details; to touch ona few, when athletes become school employees, what about benefit plans? Sick and vacation days? Ability to participate in retirement plans?
Or will players become as yet to be defined “unique” employees?
thats a solid write-up. thanks.Thebelow posted article entitled “What does the potential NCAA settlement mean for Marquette and the Big East?” appeared on the Marquette fan website.
I believe this article summarize the challenges to the Big East as well as any other article I have read
What does the potential NCAA settlement mean for Marquette and the Big East?
An enormous NCAA settlement is coming, and you won’t believe who is going to end up paying the price.
best line from it:
"But Why? Because they can. It’s as simple as that. We are at a point in time where the NCAA needs the P4 conferences more than the other way around."
Yup, it is all in the details and hope the brain trust to do that precludes politicians and NCAA “leaders”
You're right...a million questions.
Like, will they be required to sit through the endless hours of training & compliance videos featuring cringy & cheesy scenarios and low budget actors and take a 10 question quiz at end?
Good luck with that.
Rocket
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College athletes becoming employees is equivalent to college students working in the college library. The difference will be that the athletes will get paid 100 times more for playing a sport that loses money.
The NCAA and colleges with media contracts in the tens of millions of dollars have created a two tier level of collegiate sports with one tier given a monopoly on "hiring" the best athletes at the expense of 75% of the rest of the NCAA membership.
It's a paradigm of separate and unequal competition that requires the entire system to be blown up!
Within 5 years the post season championship will essentially be the P5 invitational.
The NCAA and colleges with media contracts in the tens of millions of dollars have created a two tier level of collegiate sports with one tier given a monopoly on "hiring" the best athletes at the expense of 75% of the rest of the NCAA membership.
It's a paradigm of separate and unequal competition that requires the entire system to be blown up!
Within 5 years the post season championship will essentially be the P5 invitational.
Alumni Hall
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Oh I can't wait to see how paying these athletes goes! All paid hourly? Is team travel considered "on the clock"? Holiday pay for teams practicing on holidays like Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's?
Just like the nut job who went to the House recently and asked for minimum wage scale for prisoners in jail who perform work. She asked they be given 401k benefits too.
Will wages for athletes depend on SJU HR dept? Wait till the regular students ask to be part of a team as walkons and demand the same. Will softball get paid the same as baseball even though they play less games with shorter innings? Will the NCAA still require a minimum number of sports a college can sponsor to retain D1 status? Workman's comp claim if injured ? Let's get them AFLAC insurance
while we are at it! As employees will they all receive the same meal money on trips or money spent on their behalf under the employee codebook? I can see athletes wanting to all charter to road trips instead of busses. How about support staff like cheer and dance and band?
So glad I'm out of this business. I bet the athletes will make more money than some athletic trainers and strength coaches!
Just like the nut job who went to the House recently and asked for minimum wage scale for prisoners in jail who perform work. She asked they be given 401k benefits too.
Will wages for athletes depend on SJU HR dept? Wait till the regular students ask to be part of a team as walkons and demand the same. Will softball get paid the same as baseball even though they play less games with shorter innings? Will the NCAA still require a minimum number of sports a college can sponsor to retain D1 status? Workman's comp claim if injured ? Let's get them AFLAC insurance
while we are at it! As employees will they all receive the same meal money on trips or money spent on their behalf under the employee codebook? I can see athletes wanting to all charter to road trips instead of busses. How about support staff like cheer and dance and band?So glad I'm out of this business. I bet the athletes will make more money than some athletic trainers and strength coaches!
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Rocket
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Wait until the academic elite students demand salaries...on top of free tuition to attend schools because without THEM all these elite schools become borderline community colleges that hurt their national academic rankings!
What's more important, a school's academic ranking or their ranking in basketball and football?
What's more important, a school's academic ranking or their ranking in basketball and football?
Wait till the mid game mandatory coffee breaksOh I can't wait to see how paying these athletes goes! All paid hourly? Is team travel considered "on the clock"? Holiday pay for teams practicing on holidays like Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's?
Just like the nut job who went to the House recently and asked for minimum wage scale for prisoners in jail who perform work. She asked they be given 401k benefits too.
Will wages for athletes depend on SJU HR dept? Wait till the regular students ask to be part of a team as walkons and demand the same. Will softball get paid the same as baseball even though they play less games with shorter innings? Will the NCAA still require a minimum number of sports a college can sponsor to retain D1 status? Workman's comp claim if injured ? Let's get them AFLAC insurance
So glad I'm out of this business. I bet the athletes will make more money than some athletic trainers and strength coaches!
My guess is they'll become independent contractors and will be treated as such. It's mostly how it works with actors, reporters and, dare I say, professional landscapers.
MarkRedman
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If the numbers being thrown around for "top level" guys in the portal are remotely close to being true, they would be earning more than 95% of the members of our national workforce.Oh I can't wait to see how paying these athletes goes! All paid hourly? Is team travel considered "on the clock"? Holiday pay for teams practicing on holidays like Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's?
Just like the nut job who went to the House recently and asked for minimum wage scale for prisoners in jail who perform work. She asked they be given 401k benefits too.
Will wages for athletes depend on SJU HR dept? Wait till the regular students ask to be part of a team as walkons and demand the same. Will softball get paid the same as baseball even though they play less games with shorter innings? Will the NCAA still require a minimum number of sports a college can sponsor to retain D1 status? Workman's comp claim if injured ? Let's get them AFLAC insurance
So glad I'm out of this business. I bet the athletes will make more money than some athletic trainers and strength coaches!
As an example, a moderator on the Rutgers 247 site recently said that a starting offensive lineman (not even a "top level" player) would command in the neighborhood of $500-$600K for one season.
Alumni Hall
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Interesting thought…if a school does indeed consider these athletes as independent contractors,or employees, does it drop them from the University athletic department accident coverage which is about $300,000 per year and just add them to the University employee healthcare coverage. What a mess. From what I know, the athletic department is no longer able to use the NCAA Special assistance program to help our domestic Pell Grant eligible athletes in areas like vision care and dental as they now have to pay the Federal taxes incurred on the foreign student athlete’s room/board and stipend given to them. That Federal rule started about 7 years ago. So in effect, the athletic department has to use their own operating funds to cover non insurable medical expenses, which further places an additional burden on our dept. So the more foreign athletes we bring in, the more it hurts the the operating budget. Also, by NCAA rules, the institution is allowed to pay from its operating budget, two round trip tickets to the athletes home. Can you imaging the expense of say 50-75 foreign athletes (100-150 round trip tickets) in this high airline price environment? They’re not flying Southwest, Frontier or SpiritRJ’s paid medical insurance premiums should be interesting
some schools do not recruit foreign athletes unless they are absolute stars to help take pressure off their budgets.
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