… by a federal judge. 


WIS recruiting changes coming? =D

No changes needed from me - I've been paying my recruits for years!

It's about time the person doing the ****ing all these years finally got ****ed.

i think it was a very important step, but i feel like the judge really walked up to the line without crossing it. the judge agreed the NCAA was unfair, that they could not withhold money from student athletes for certain things, like proceeds from using your image in a video game. however, because the NCAA can still cap payouts at the "true cost of attendance", that by itself, IMO, is not a game changer. that effectively keeps amateur status. 

i do think its a huge step in the sense that it could easily pave the way for more changes. with this groundwork, its seemingly inevitable that people will challenge the issue on the next front.

i thought the ruling had a couple interesting sidenotes. there was the ability for a school to put money in a trust for the player, i don't recall the details exactly but it was a fairly small amount, like 5k/year or something. to me, that is sort of crossing that line in the sand - where suddenly players can get more than the true cost of attending school. once they can get 20k over 4 years, why not 50k? 100k? the other interesting thing was the judge said the NCAA was allowed to force a school to give all recruits in the same class, the same amount of money towards the scholarship (this isn't related to the video game thing, but addressing how schools can give players more money towards their scholarship, just on its own, up to the true cost of attendance).

The judge also spelled out which sources of revenue that would be exempt from revenue sharing with players