In Reply to: Federal judge approves $2.8B settlement, paving way for US colleges to posted by mh on June 06, 2025 at 19:00:02
The headlines are about the revenue sharing. The true impact of this new bureaucratic overlay will be the neutering of free market NIL by bringing it under the direct control of the universities through a "clearinghouse". WAFJ
This looks like a terrible outcome for the players since most of the existing free market NIL deals would've been rejected by the clearinghouse, apparently, had it been running previously.
Imposing greater control by the universities over the athletes' compensation is a good thing for Ucla, which thrives in rules based models like this and fails in market based models like we've seen in recent years.
Sadly, this lessens the odds that the Bruins can shuck the husk of Ucla and become relevant in football again. More mediocrity on the way.
Frenk has already signaled his alibi for football failure: We must support the Olympic sports! It's our patriotic duty!
Nope.
Jettison the costly Olympic sports and focus on football or else Ucla will shove the Bruins down several pegs on the college football relevancy board as other universities who value football over Olympic sports invest and plow ahead.
Before all you drooling, knee-jerk idiots hit your keyboards, please note that John Wooden himself discouraged his players from participating in the Olympics. This is the man who single-handedly raised Ucla into the national prominence that these Morgan Center blowhard bureaucrats continue to dissipate even as they financially benefit from it.