JP Acosta
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first heard Dec 2024
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Now that people have figured this out, how do you think it's changing college sports? Or is it?
I think it's definitely changing college sports in multiple ways, both good and bad. I think NIL has worked with the transfer portal, which allows players to go to whatever school they would like as they please.
Of course, the big schools with the most money are still going to be able to pay more players, but you're more likely to keep a good player around at your program if you have a good booster program, if you have a good NIL collective. A big example of that would be Ash and Jonte. Boise State's running back won the Doak Walker Award.
He had an option after his sophomore year to go to a bigger school and get more money from other big schools. But because Boise State's NIL was able to get him compensated well, he's able to stay.
and Boise State's in the college football playoff for the first time. So it's kind of those things where NIL has helped create a little bit of parity at the college level. And I think that is a very good thing. Now, the problem with NIL is there is no federal regulation on it. There is no NCA laws on NIL. Every state has their own separate laws.
So what might work in Florida won't work in Arizona, won't work in California. And what's happening is... With NIL, all these boosters and collectives, they can fundraise major amounts of money. If you have a strong enough and a big enough booster fan base, you can raise $20 million to go get yourself an entirely new roster filled with some of the best players.
All these big schools with these big, powerful alumni can use that money to pay for players to come to their school. And it kind of leaves the smaller schools to dry a little bit. We talked about Ash and John T. with Boise State. That is the good example.
The bad example is every other group of five, every other small school that doesn't have that big of an alumni base, that doesn't have a lot of money, are losing their good players to the portal every year.
Which makes... I guess college sports feel a little bit more like pro sports where the biggest teams like the New York Mets or the Yankees or the Dodgers get to buy up the best players.
Yes, exactly. It feels like there is no salary cap right now with name, image, and likeness, which is what baseball sees with the Mets and the Yankees and the Dodgers because they can give out that money compared to a team that's a little smaller. They really can't because while... Alabama might have $20, $30 million to hand out to a recruit.
A school like my alma mater, FAU, might only have $20 million, even less than that, to give out to the entire team. So you see kind of the economic imbalances that we see between the big schools and the small schools.
But where we're also seeing a change is this is an added level to what's happening with NIL is in 2025, college sports will begin revenue sharing, which means up to 20% of what a school brings in in revenue
has to be saved for players and it feels like the bigger schools are just going to keep getting more top heavy and being able to pay players a whole lot more so you just naturally get all the talent funneling into like 10 schools tops
JP Acosta, SBNation.com. When Today Explained returns, we're going to find out why we're letting college sports turn into something that looks a lot like professional sports.
Pablo's covered name, image, and likeness about a half dozen times on his show. So we asked him over to ours to help us understand how college sports ended up looking so much like pro sports this year.
Do they have any other play here or is it just sort of rubber stamping? Are they quietly trying to fight this change in college sports?
So tell us what that would mean just in practical terms for college sports if they had an antitrust exemption, if they were allowed to be a monopoly.
So what impact would this monopolistic exception have on name, image, and likeness rights on these $10 million deals?
Huh.
Okay. And do you think they'll be able to win over Congress? Is there bipartisan support for this antitrust exemption?
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