LSU NIL Deals Prompt CSC Investigation

[Bama9001]

LSU CSC Investigation

The article says they are looking at several schools for NIL deals that were not reported. Wonder who those other schools are?

I agree with the article that the main interest is going to be what punishments are dispensed if wrongdoing is found. Will they really be able to enforce any rules.

 

[CB4]

LSU CSC Investigation

The article says they are looking at several schools for NIL deals that were not reported. Wonder who those other schools are?

I agree with the article that the main interest is going to be what punishments are dispensed if wrongdoing is found. Will they really be able to enforce any rules.

Interesting that this article said NOLA states it isn’t related to the football program. I heard differently late yesterday that it was, most likely involving possible tampering with the Oregon QB Dante Moore and other questionable NIL deals.

Nice that someone wants to investigate. Would be even better if someone could do something about it.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

Hurry, hurry, hurry. Step right up coaches for you free tampering passes. only a few dozen left. Call NOW.

 

[stlimprov]

Lane was telling kids they'd end up pumping gas; the kids thought that was a binding NIL offer.

 

[bamaga]

NCAA football is turning into 1990s AAU basketball, except more money

 

[CaliforniaTide]

Until actual penalties are handed down and enforced, I can't take anything like this seriously.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

Pay for play deals disguised as NIL are rampant and seem to be simply ignoring the requirements to go through the clearing house, obvious tampering, 27 year olds being granted 8 years of eligibility…. Pretty much have to burn the whole thing to the ground and start over. No school or player will ever be challenged without going to court (and winning) so why bother. I’m with California, I’ll believe it if it happens; and actually sticks. Seems to me the phrase of the year is now “you are causing irreparable harm to my ability to make a living”

 

[Bama9001]

Pay for play deals disguised as NIL are rampant and seem to be simply ignoring the requirements to go through the clearing house, obvious tampering, 27 year olds being granted 8 years of eligibility…. Pretty much have to burn the whole thing to the ground and start over. No school or player will ever be challenged without going to court (and winning) so why bother. I’m with California, I’ll believe it if it happens; and actually sticks. Seems to me the phrase of the year is now “you are causing irreparable harm to my ability to make a living”

Wonder how long until someone files suit over the single portal window. I'll be shocked if it survives 2026. First there will be exceptions and then the dam will break.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

It's no longer about rules. It's about the law.

The NCAA or the CSC or whatever entity you name can make all the "rules" you want and they can be perfectly sensible. But they mean nothing unless and until they stand up to court challenge.

There are only two things that will stand up to legal challenge and be uniformly enforceable across all 50 states: (1) Congressional action -- and Congress has shown exactly zero interest in doing anything, or (2) a collegiate analogue to the NFL Players Association negotiating a contract with management -- likely a committee of college presidents and/or athletic directors.

The status quo (no rules at all and no way to enforce any rules even if you had them) is what happens when an inept and corrupt governance organization, in this case the NCAA, implodes but there is no successor governance in place.

It won't be long before anybody of any age can play college NFL lite football for as long as they want. Why? Because that's the way they maximize their earnings (the vast majority of these players can make many times more in pay-for-play than they can in real jobs in the real world), and there's no way to legally bar them from doing so.

The only way to return some sanity to an insane situation is a literal act of Congress or a union / management contract. Until one of those things happens, there will soon be no limitations on who can play college football or how long they can do it.

Yes....absent Congressional action or a union, there will be a 30-year-old NFL veteran suing to play college NFL lite football. And he'll win. Mark it.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Yep, this new CSC has no more authority to investigate and enforce the rules than the NCAA, so I don't see how the results will be any different.

 

[Power Eye]

Eventually, there will be a breaking point in college football. I thought it would have happened by now, but it evidently hasn't. I guess whatever mystery group of individuals that comprise the leadership within college football are okay with the way things are for the time being, but there has to be a point where even they say "enough is enough." Maybe some program like Virginia will go all in one season to build a super team with a $100mm budget and attract all the top players across the sport, or maybe kids start transferring mid season because a court ruling allowed them to and they play for multiple teams in one year. Even then, who knows if that would push the sport to the edge.

It has become almost comical the lack of structure and rules enforcement that the sport has. Articles like this seem like they provide something new everyday but they resonate with no one because nothing will be done about it. Schools will just be threatened with legal battles and realize the hazards of litigation are just not worth fighting over a kid that no longer wants to play for you because someone else offered them more money.

I guess I'm still trying to convince myself that something will be done, because if I thought that this was the way things were going to be, or even worse, going forward without any changes, then I would lose all interest. Unfortunately, it's probably going to be me coming to the realization that sport will not be fixed rather than it getting fixed.

 

[KrAzY3]

I hope there can be some sort of enforcement. Not that I'm a big fan of the NCAA or what have you, but right now things are pretty much lawless so if you get some sort of sensible enforcement then the insanity can calm down.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

Wonder how long until someone files suit over the single portal window. I'll be shocked if it survives 2026. First there will be exceptions and then the dam will break.

They made themselves vulnerable to this by not waiting until the season was over, but holding the window open for the teams that were still playing. That made some players have longer than others to enter the portal while players on the playoff teams could argue that they didn’t feel right entering while the playoffs were happening but by the time they were over many teams had filled their needs. NCAA runs this like a banana republic & has given the courts plenty of reasons to decide these cases in favor of the players.

 

[jashleyren2]

I attribute so much of our current societal problems, from college sports NIL and portal, to a whole lot of other, bigger, more harmful, societal ills, to one thing: Rampant, runaway, chain reaction, greed.

Our country, humans, are due for a *humbling*.