Let the fun begin, CA Gov signs college athlete likeness pay bill

[michaeljordan_fan]

I doubt they’ll pass something like that, and that would be more of a basketball issue.

North Carolina isn't too far-fetched. A Republican there has already presented a pay for likeness proposal.

As for "more of a basketball issue", I'm not sure if you think that makes it somehow irrelevant in the NCAA's eyes? Basketball in the state of NC is big business for the NCAA.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I don't like how the state is going about it but I ultimately agree with the idea

 

[Chewbaccer]

North Carolina isn't too far-fetched. A Republican there has already presented a pay for likeness proposal.

As for "more of a basketball issue", I'm not sure if you think that makes it somehow irrelevant in the NCAA's eyes? Basketball in the state of NC is big business for the NCAA.

If basketball went away all together, college and pro, I wouldn’t even notice

 

[michaeljordan_fan]

If basketball went away all together, college and pro, I wouldn’t even notice

Good for you...but the NCAA Basketball tournament is easily the biggest moneymaker for the NCAA.

 

[Pariah]

The next step is finding anyone playing in California that's worth paying.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

 

[gob]

So, does this just make the school pay for the use of the players' likeness, or does it make the schools pay the players? Cause if it is the first, I would just do what OSU does, and only sell #1 and #whatever year it is. All photos for promotions would use those numbers or some predetermined numbers, and all pictures would be of non-athletes in said uniforms.

 

[uncfan103]

Depends on which states

I think I read South Carolina proposed something similar. But, that might be because there’s a lot of Gamecock lawmakers that know the only teams in the state competing for championships are from Clemson

 

[Stakesarehigh]

So, does this just make the school pay for the use of the players' likeness, or does it make the schools pay the players? Cause if it is the first, I would just do what OSU does, and only sell #1 and #whatever year it is. All photos for promotions would use those numbers or some predetermined numbers, and all pictures would be of non-athletes in said uniforms.

I believe it's the first.

 

[NU_FTW]

Then you have antitrust lawsuits.

Nobody is preventing them from competing in athletics, their state is the one who decided to make their athletes professionals instead of amateurs. They can form their own league (just imagine how bad that will be, a worse version of the P12 network)

 

[7Samurai13]

So, does this just make the school pay for the use of the players' likeness, or does it make the schools pay the players? Cause if it is the first, I would just do what OSU does, and only sell #1 and #whatever year it is. All photos for promotions would use those numbers or some predetermined numbers, and all pictures would be of non-athletes in said uniforms.

It allows boosters and companies to buy players and push them going to a certain school. One hiccup is if a player signs with Adidas but goes to a Nike school, the Nike contract trumps Adidas and the player must wear Nike apparel during games. The school’s contract always trumps the player’s.

 

[Groo]

I wonder if this makes up for the unofficial payrolls we see from the usual suspects

 

[Goldbug]

I try not to let sports get to me but this issue really grilles my cheese. I'm going to explain "exploited" to you. I enlisted into the USMC....not drafted.....enlisted. Kinda like someone signing a Letter of Intent. I got free training, free food and free clothing.....even free weapons and ammo. Kinda like a college athlete getting the same things except no weapons and ammo but a lot of free pussy which is even better. I got to hump 70 lbs through triple canopy jungle and water up to my ass with the added benefit of someone trying to kill me. Kinda NOT like getting to play a game in a safe stadium like a college athlete. My point: I wasn't "exploited" at 19 any more than these athletes are being "exploited". We all make life choices. Everyone can make a different choice (like maybe all of us could just forgo the military thing or the sports thing and focus totally on our education, which we could pay for ourselves, or getting a nice safe job at that age). /rant off

 

[WizardHawk]

We used to have mods that would merge these threads.

@Edisto_Tiger is too busy these days protesting shaved gina sites.

I think @bamabear82 lost his teabag pants?

 

[7Samurai13]

@Edisto_Tiger is too busy these days protesting shaved gina sites.

I think @bamabear82 lost his teabag pants?

@bamabear82 is too busy chasing down the bamacub to pay attention to us anymore.

 

[WizardHawk]

@bamabear82 is too busy chasing down the bamacub to pay attention to us anymore.

Right, he didn't lose his teabagging britches, he lost the teabags. :-D

 

[WhiteMamba]

We used to have mods that would merge these threads.

 

[scotsman1948]

Which would be followed by an antitrust lawsuit.

How so? The NCAA is an association of colleges and the student athletes are amateurs by definition of the NCAA charter

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I think exploited is too strong also. But the real reason we are at this point is because the NCAA has completely refused to come up with a creative solution in conjunction with the schools. There's about a million ways we could go about this but they've chosen to just bury their head in the sand and arbitrarily punish schools based on no criteria whatsoever.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Statement from the Pac-12 on the signing of California SB 206

 

[lilchi721]

Do the all the schools in California have enough money to pay all their student athletes?