Virginia law allows schools to pay athletes for NIL
Schools in Virginia will be able to directly pay athletes via name, image and likeness deals thanks to a state law signed Thursday morning.
Virginia can now directly pay athletes
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Goodbye and good riddance NCAA!
Every state will follow.
Every state will follow.
Well then I guess Virginia needs to be kicked out of the Union......
No they will hang around to get paid with the TV money.
Let me know when you hear the NCAA tell them "No you can't do that".
By "kick them out of the Union", I mean take them all behind the proverbial woodshed and Ole Yeller them........and then when all the kids start asking questions about the missing Virginianites, we'll tell them the truth.
They all went out to get some ice cream........and never came back.
So I am assuming this starts the chain reaction of getting rid of these collectives.
I see this as a positive. The whole collective thing is a mess with not nearly enough transparency with where and to whom the money is going. I won't donate to a collective personally.
Get rid of school based sports. Make them club teams. Schools are for education and should not support anything where your brain or body can be damaged. I am surprised that somebody hasn t tried to sue a school for injuries while they played sports. Wondering do schools wash there hands when you graduate.
College football is now becoming a Semi-Pro league. The only good thing that might come out of Colleges having the players as employees is that they sign contracts and can't just leave after 3 months.
I'd be surprised if student athletes didn't have to sign a waiver before joining programs.
This is pretty much the only way to fix it. Have the NCAA push to start a union for players, then make them sign contracts for however many years (1-4) just like the pros. Put whatever they want in the contracts free education etc but if they want to be paid like pros they need to honor contracts and stay with teams like the pros. No more "transfer portal" just free agents. Put a salary cap for schools and let the kids do NIL, and since they are on contract they just can't leave for better NIL.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Sports/virginia-law-allows-schools-pay-athletes-nil/story?id=109385845
The law explicitly states that athletes should not be considered employees of their school. Schools in Virginia are still not allowed to pay athletes for their performance in a sport, but starting this summer, they will be able to use university or athletic department funds to pay athletes for appearing in marketing campaigns. Williams said this was "maybe a distinction without a difference, but there's a distinction there."
