I cant believe there is nt a chiseling mouthpiece out there that cant figure it all out. All the schools take federal money and veterans benefits, the feds can put a stop on most every big school if they can get congress to act.
Cignetti/Whittingham vs. Rhule
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The Husker Athletic Dept is self funded. They take in ZERO federal, state, or local money. They actually donate $10 per year to the University for academic scholarships for Non-Athleetes. NIL is your.brand as a person, no one can cap your name, image, and likeness. They can offer you a contract and you can decide for yourself of that's fai or not. The NCAA has lost so many lawsuits in this realm, and the transfer portal the only way this can possibly get resolved is for Congress to get involved and we all know how well they do stuff. Yeah no thanks.
Essentially what I am hearing is the only two ways to stop it is either making a law to place a CAP limit on the money or the Colleges stop paying them all together. Or am I missing something else?
Does EVERYBODY have me on ignore?
The University doesn't matter. Has nothing to do with the income of the Athletic Dept. This has nothing to do with the University. The University and the AD are separate entities.
The colleges aren't paying players directly. The NIL collectives are, through guidance from the Colleges. Basically the NIL collectives have only as much money as is donated. So Indiana for instance probably has way more than most schools cause of Mark Cuban. Oregon and Phil knight. My understanding is the schools collaborate with the collectives to know how much they can offer each year, etc. And no law by Congress can cap NIL. I mean they could but them thar means all athletes pro and college could only make so much from show contracts, TV contracts, commercials, etc. That's never gonna happen and not sure the courts would allow anyones personal brand be capped when they live in a country where the sky's the limit. The NCAA if it had any respect left could do what the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc does and Cap salaries. The only problem are the players aren't paid salaries.
The way I see it, the NCAA screwed up on the lawsuit...they tried to say these student athletes weren't allowed to take the money.
Seems to me they should have said "You can take the money, that's not a problem. However, when you take the money, you are no longer an amateur. You have to maintain amateur status to participate in NCAA sanctioned activities."
Seems to me they should have said "You can take the money, that's not a problem. However, when you take the money, you are no longer an amateur. You have to maintain amateur status to participate in NCAA sanctioned activities."
Agreed - but they also get kneecapped everytime they get sued because their charter and rules don't follow legal precedent worth a turkey. A complete redo of the NCAA is needed. Or something to replace it (which seems pretty likely for the Power 4). Probably end up with Power 4 setting up a structure while the rest of the schools stay in the NCAA. How that works for the playoffs, game scheduling between leagues, etc......TBD. The only wild card would be if Congress steps in with some new laws to put things in order. The chance of that happening is about 0.000001% based how effective Congress is at solving problems.
The only way I see Congress stepping in and passing laws regarding college football is if the sports betting industry wants something to happen which will benefit them financially. Then they'll give members of Congress massive bribes, sorry, "campaign contributions" to make it happen.
Everytime congress steps in they create something worse
That's fine but their finances are separate. That's not even debatable. www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/opinion-separate-checkbooks-nu-vs-husker-athletics/article_dfaad1d4-8101-402d-992e-395806000d19.html
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Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033
13 million a year for Cignetti, how much do we pay for Rhule
13 million a year for Cignetti, how much do we pay for Rhule
Does it matter? I think Rhule is likely to get a restructure if things don't go better this season - might give him some cash up front to reduce the buyout and potentially year by year salary (replacing that with bigger bonuses for meeting certain goals such as bowl game, B1G championship, appearance in playoff, etc that he can only get with much better performance as a head coach.).
I'll be shocked if Rhule restructures. He most likely doesn't and would force us to fire him. We made a bad rushed extension that puts the University in a bad place.
I assume a Harbaugh type re-do is possible - but SUHnami may well be right - we can't with the crappy deal we offered this past year in a panic PSU would steal Rhule away.
Anyway....my thought was front some extra money to sign it - convert salary to performance bonuses (because most likely he'll never see that money) and reduce the buyout. The overall deal could be for more money IF THE BONUS are earned - but converting salary to bonuses reduces the bill when it comes time to fire Rhule. Which is more likely than not to happen IMHO.
Rhule has a good agent.....they MIGHT entertain it for the right up front cash offer but the current deal protects Rhule and UNL from someone stealing him......so status quo and eating the cost to fire him may be the only option for now.
Anyway....my thought was front some extra money to sign it - convert salary to performance bonuses (because most likely he'll never see that money) and reduce the buyout. The overall deal could be for more money IF THE BONUS are earned - but converting salary to bonuses reduces the bill when it comes time to fire Rhule. Which is more likely than not to happen IMHO.
Rhule has a good agent.....they MIGHT entertain it for the right up front cash offer but the current deal protects Rhule and UNL from someone stealing him......so status quo and eating the cost to fire him may be the only option for now.
It matters as we start moving into Frost territory with Rhule, another year with no or low results, check our schedule, its going to be a ball buster to get to .500 in my opinion and we were supposed to far past that with last years team and easy schedule. God only knows what will happen with a 27 schedule. When all that talk started (whats to say his agent wasnt behind the rumours) about Penn state and his milqetoast response we shoulda helped him pack and give one of our better coaches a chance to finish the year. That 12.5 million kicking in for 2030 is simply galling.
