Clemson Conqueror [11445]
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Proposal to fix the NCAA / NIL / college FB mess (very long)
Dec 13, 2024, 10:55 AM
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Using a post from bretfsu® earlier today (C&P of which is between the xxxxxx lines below) as the foundation, I think the following additions / modifications to Bret’s post might be a useful -and also legal- means of ‘putting guardrails’ around the CFB / NIL / ‘unlimited player free agency’ quagmire.
First, here is Bret’s post:
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A student should have the right to drop out of school at any time he or she wishes.
But, that doesn't mean an organization set up to assist some students must be forced to accept those students into other universities.
The NCAA also has the right to set guidelines.
I maintain, even though I am probably the only one in America, who blames the NCAA (and its member institutions) for creating this problem and for perpetuating it. My solution is simple.
Rule: When you sign a student to an athletic scholarship (whatever you call it) that kid counts against your maximum number of scholarships for that sport until he or she graduates from your institution or until 5 years has passed, whichever comes first.
No one is forcing a school to sign a person to a scholarship. If Mike Norvell knew that when he signed 25 kids out of the portal they would count against his scholarship limit for either five years or until they graduated from FSU, he would be looking at a different group of players to sign.
But, the NCAA could not care less about education and degrees and graduation. So, blame the NCAA.
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OK, onward and to who knows where:
The NCAA has the authority to establish a private ‘club’ in which schools are allowed to play (within that organization) only if each member college conforms to certain ‘club rules.’ Those NCAA ‘club rules’ cannot violate any US Constitutional laws.
The NCAA ‘club rules’ do not in any way force a member to constrain what the member school is willing to pay for a player. This is not any different in principle to a non-athlete student holding a job (for example, hot chick student gets big $ modeling contract) but remains otherwise as a student like all of the other students.
The member schools may only have 105 students on the FB team; no player in that team can be kicked off that team for reason other than academic failure, felonious criminal behavior, physical harm to other person(s) via purposeful acts by the student athlete, or violating student behavior standards that apply to all other students at the member schools, as per the student code of conduct for that school.
The member schools MUST ban any and all students from participating in extracurricular activities (whether it be playing on the FB team, participating in the school’s Glee Club, being a member of a sorority / frat, etc).
The member schools are not allowed to coordinate or organize employment for any student from outside of the school that takes place during the academic semester or quarter in which the student or student athlete is enrolled. (Cooperative education programs would not be affected by this.)
For students being employed for on-campus jobs as paid by the school (including tutors, referees for intramural sports, working in the cafeteria, etc), the same hourly rate must be paid for all ‘working students.’
The base scholarships for all students have only non-monetary value (such as full use of laboratory facilities & materials used in the laboratory, books / instructional materials, charges for tutoring, access to athletic facilities / training staff / coaching staff, clothing and clothing accessories related to the purpose for the scholarship - for example - bug proof garments for entomology scholarship students or uniforms / helmets / etc for the FB players).
Stipends for scholarship students must be the same amount for every scholarship student. The scholarship student must pay for
Friends and family members of the scholarship students (including … cough cough … ‘long lost rich uncles’) may not provide any form of monetary benefit to the scholarship students. Only non-monetary possessions such as automobiles, clothing, tennis racket, golf clubs, etc. May be provided by the ‘friends and family’ of the student athlete.
Only non-monetary items of value (such as airplane tickets, hotel rooms, etc) may be provided to scholarship students; these non-monetary benefits may be dispensed by the school to the scholarship students based upon that student’s needs, as determined by the members schools are.
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(*). The NCAA does not allow any school which does not conform to the above restraints from having their teams participate in NCAA sanctioned events.
The end.
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