Re: Football needs to go the Baseball route

Well…we at least could pretend like it.

My guess that a disclosure agreement might exist to a point (depending on how shady the deal might be). I am SURE as heck that Virginia Tech would outright flip-out if some of their players sign a NRA/Walther/Glock deal as I am SURE some idiot would try that. No bad press right? That being said, to really know what is happening with these deal, you have to follow the money. Heck, even channeling the money through various, unwholesome channels needs to know the funds.

That being said, it might have to do with disclosing of tax information. For example the IRS can release information to state agencies and potentially 3rd parties. I don't know about tax laws enough to get into that weeds, but because the NCAA is an opt-in, they could make that type of reporting required by the school and then as a part of the scholarship. It is permissible for an employer to ask for a tax return for an applicant (some states doe prohibit it). Don't know if the NCAA/Schools can twist this, I assume they would based on the consistency of the NCAA since now athletes are quasi employees. The whole FAFSA/FERPA scholarship thing might be an interesting layer and I just don't know the law well enough here.

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Dec 17, 2021, 1:14 PM [ in reply to Re: Football needs to go the Baseball route ]

I was thinking about a salary cap myself. The NFL has a salary cap and it's crazy to think in terms that college sports are basically operating as a free agent market without a salary cap at the moment.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a good way to implement what you're saying. The schools are technically not the ones paying the players. Maybe you could monitor boosters and people attached to certain schools and try to limit that, but what about national deals like the one DJ had with Dr. Pepper? What if Clemson was near the cap limit and the Dr. Pepper deal for DJ would put Clemson over the limit? Is DJ expected to turn the deal down or ask Dr. Pepper to pay him less? I just wouldn't see that as being legal to implement.

I think the only hope is to have rules against boosters and fans who aren't considered to be boosters from paying players. I'm not sure if there's a realistic way to even monitor that or if those rules would be considered legal or not. I would hope at the very least there would be rules put into place to stop these offers from going out before a player signs and rules that would prevent offers for players to leave a current school to go somewhere else. You'd think those sort of rules would be legal, but I'm not sure. I know professional sports leagues have rules in place for tampering, but I can imagine it's a lot harder to monitor all these college players and the amount of people in their ears.

I could be wrong, but to me any offers going out to players in high school should break some sort of rule, especially ones that depend on a recruit signing with a certain school. It's one thing for a company to sponsor a player because he's a national star and the company feels the player will add value to their product by advertising with him. It's another thing to offer some random kid a bunch of money to come to your school because some recruiting services rated them as a great player.

The deals we've heard about such as the Texas deal to pay OL players $50,000 per year(I think that was the number I saw) should especially be breaking some rule. You're not paying those players based on their own image at that point, you're offering to pay unknown players money simply by playing for a particular team.

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Football needs to go the Baseball route

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Well…we at least could pretend like it.