A busy week of events in Washington, DC and Chicago lead into the holiday period. Terrific event hosted by Aspen Institute focusing on the current challenges of the NCAA.
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Aspen Institute’s forum entitled: “The Future of College Sports: The Government’s Role in Athlete’s Pay.”
It has been an interesting week. Last weekend I was out in Buffalo for Project Play Western New York. This week I have been out in California for meetings with more sports youth organizations, promoting Sports Philanthropy WORLD 2020
Fans have been clamoring for a college football playoff for years. The BCS did a poor job of giving teams a chance at a true national championship. The 4-team playoff has not done much better.
In the wake of this week’s statement by the NCAA, it appears that we have only two options left for the direction
college sports is going to go. 1) A level playing field; or 2) A free market system. Where do you stand?
The NCAA statement about the changes it is planning to make to allow compensation for Name, Image and LIkeness leave gaping holes which will create a mess of eligibility problems.
This week we take a look at targeting, the California regulation allowing NCAA athletes to get paid for Name, Image and Likeness and the inadvertent side-effects of the new redshirting rules
You have to wonder whether the “solution” is the proposed Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) law that was passed in California and is now being proposed in many other states.