Professional athletes and consultants have to pay state taxes in each state that they earn money by playing or providing services. I wonder if these kids will be subject to state taxes in all the states that they play their games like professional athletes?
What will be the interpretation and application of Title IX? Will earnings be capped / taken from one group and given to another to give the appearance of fairness?
With Title IX I believe anything a football player gets will have to be given to a women's field hockey player.
Think IU's Tom Allen just caught lightening in bottle last season...apparently he's working hard to make sure he can do it again at IU. Interesting take on their recruiting up tick. This is from an article on The Athletic on recruiting. When Indiana flipped four-star athlete Dasan McCullough of Bloomington (Ind.) South from Ohio State in late April, it may have been easy to dismiss it as a talented prospect simply wanting to play for his father. McCullough is the No. 50 overall player and the No. 6 athlete in the 2022 class, and his father, Deland McCullough, is Indiana’s associate head coach and running backs coach. Family ties and nothing else, right? Well, it’s time to give credit where credit is due: Indiana’s recruiting is vastly improved. The Hoosiers landed two more important commitments in the last three days — four-star cornerback Trevell Mullen of Pompano Beach (Fla.) Coconut Creek and three-star quarterback Josh Hoover of Rockwall (Texas) Heath. Mullen is rated the No. 181 overall player and the No. 22 cornerback in the 2022 class and held offers from Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Miami, Oregon, Penn State, West Virginia and others. Hoover is the No. 528 overall player and the No. 36 quarterback in the country and also had offers from Arkansas, SMU, Memphis and others. Tom Allen has the Hoosiers coming off one of the best seasons in program history and is eager to prove that was not simply a flash in the pan in a weird (and abbreviated) season. Allen is building off that success with incremental improvement on the recruiting trail. Indiana’s 2022 class now has six commitments and ranks No. 44 nationally, but don’t be fooled by the ranking. It’s still a small class, and two of those commitments are top-200 prospects. To give some perspective, Indiana has signed only two top-200 players in the modern era of recruiting (dating back to 2000) — defensive lineman Stephen Williams (No. 109 in 2000) and running back Sampson James (No 181 in 2019). Building a college program takes time. Allen unquestionably has Indiana headed in the right direction.
Another blow to the NCAA and a win for (some) college athletes' pocketbooks. NCAA loses in court again as athlete-pay case involving TV moves ahead The NCAA’s legal problems regarding its limits on compensation for college athletes continued Thursday, when a federal judge denied its request to dismiss a lawsuit that not only challenges any limits on athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, but also brings into play the prospect of athletes getting money from college sports TV rights fees.
How would they possibly come up with a formula to figure out what part of TV money they can get? This is getting stupid.
If college golfers can take money and face it, they are the bulk of the players who make it to the US Amateur finals. I don't see how they could eliminate the college kids from the tournament.
I wonder if this will shift the balance of power at all to teams centered around the major markets. If I was Rutgers I would think it can only help recruiting to tell the better players they will have access to the metro New York airwaves via commercials and appearances.
It's still Rutgers though, no real history of wining consistently so they aren't likely to be a threat to the teams in the Big 10 that do win consistently. But they might use that leverage to out recruit the midlevel Big 10 teams who are in small markets. It'll probably have to be long game for them, that is get the results for players over a couple of years and then use that to show recruits. Ohio State, Mich, Penn State, Wisconsin won't be worried.
This sounds like a talented but troubled kid, just who I wouldn't really want to take a chance on bringing into my program. Of course maybe a new environment will change things and he will become that high NFL draft choice. LSU coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday that the Tigers will miss Dare Rosenthal after the starting left tackle entered the transfer portal. Orgeron had previously said that Rosenthal had the potential to be a first-round NFL draft pick. But the offensive lineman struggled to stay on the field during his time in Baton Rouge. He left school briefly last year, missing spring practice. He returned and was then suspended indefinitely in October.
Longhorns getting a new rug for DKR Stadium. New HC, Steve Sarkesian, commented on it during a radio interview. Steve Sarkisian weighs in on natural grass versus turf debate “When it comes to the playing surface, I just want a good playing surface,” Sarkisian said. “I think in this day and age of what’s going on in sports in general, especially in college football, you can flip the coin with grass fields and turf fields, and with the turf fields nowadays, the way they’re making them it’s dang near like playing on grass and aesthetically it looks good.” Sarkisian mentioned A&T Stadium in Arlington and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as some of the best fields in the world that have artificial turf that plays like grass. With a natural playing surface, the challenge comes down to maintenance — Del Conte mentioned the need to evaluate the growing patterns for a grass turf with the new south end zone while Sarkisian pointed to the wear and tear not just from playing games on the surface, but also from the desire to hold practices in the stadium. In the offseason, Texas also holds conditioning sessions on the field. During the football season, the stadium often hosts high school football playoff games.
I get your point but this is no longer about good old school pride or even team. Its about building and honing your personal brand. If you're a good player you are only going to be hanging around for three years anyway. That is not a lot of time to create your image and learn the ins and outs of marketing for profit. I would think a major factor for a star in choosing a location to play football would be the demographics of the market he would be playing in. Metro New York / NJ / Ct is pretty lucrative.
Don they were talking about that guy today on ESPNU, he's supposedly a very high level basketball player as well and wants to play basketball as well at Ohio State. I haven't seen a 2 sport athlete in football/basketball in a long time.
This is our new #1 recruit from Washington. He wants to play basketball here as well, which is agreeable with both head coaches.