House Settlement Decision Could Bring More Parity Back to College Sports

I seriously doubt it.

college sports was on a suicide glide path. There's a chance this could be a very important step to slowing the assent, but of course much more is needed, including competent, fair, and just enforcement of the settlement.

Ewalker80 said:

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college sports was on a suicide glide path. There's a chance this could be a very important step to slowing the assent, but of course much more is needed, including competent, fair, and just enforcement of the settlement.

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I can see it being a step in either direction, and I'm not putting any stake in the positive outcome for college football.

Let's bring it closer to home. The Rob Wright deal with the BYU collective, for example, almost certainly would not have been approved under this new regime, as having no reasonable relationship with the value of services rendered. Of course enforcement and potential evasions are to be determined, but I think everyone in the industry sees this as a massive change in the landscape, albeit with unknown consequences.

Parity? What happens when Gonzaga, Syracuse, or god forbid Duke puts 90% of their NIL into basketball?

Also, you're telling me the big dawg SEC football schools aren't going to find workarounds to the salary cap?

Bryan Seeley, a former assistant U.S. attorney who has served for more than a decade as MLB's vice president of investigations and deputy general counsel, has been announced as the CEO of the College Sports Commission, college sports' new enforcement entity. yahoo
what we have here with the house settlement is an enforcement arm that will address things like third party nil payments, school/player contracts, cap restrictions, and the like. this fellow, seeley, is heading it up. his authority will rest under rules set by the college sports commission which schools have agreed to abide by.

the second phase now is for congress to codify the house settlement so that violations will be of federal law, not just conference (csc) rules. five senators have been working on this legislation. i think it's the reason trump put his saban thing on hold.

watching this unfold gives me some hope for the future. yes, it will be different with pay2play. but at least it will be with enforceable rules, assuming codification, rather than laisse-faire as we have today.