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We are caught in a very odd time, where the US Supreme Court has ruled that the NCAA can’t prevent players from getting NIL deals, but hasn’t yet ruled on whether players are employees, and the NCAA hasn’t yet started to regulate the NIL system (or even tested whether it can), so what we have is a Wild West out there.

The problem isn’t the dissonance between NIL deals and considering the players employees or not.  The problem is the dissonance between how the business of collegiate sports operates, and how it treats student athletes.  The NCAA has made choices that put the value of the product it sells ahead of the welfare of its student athletes, and now it will reap what it has sowed.  I don’t want an end to amateurism, but I fully sympathize with players here.

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[BostonCard]

We are caught in a very odd time, where the US Supreme Court has ruled that the NCAA can’t prevent players from getting NIL deals, but hasn’t yet ruled on whether players are employees, and the NCAA hasn’t yet started to regulate the NIL system (or even tested whether it can), so what we have is a Wild West out there.

The problem isn’t the dissonance between NIL deals and considering the players employees or not.  The problem is the dissonance between how the business of collegiate sports operates, and how it treats student athletes.  The NCAA has made choices that put the value of the product it sells ahead of the welfare of its student athletes, and now it will reap what it has sowed.  I don’t want an end to amateurism, but I fully sympathize with players here.

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