Ah, the purity of college athletics. The biggest fraud in sports.
This is so similar to the Olympic athlete nonsense that existed years ago on some levels.
Oliver Luck, father of Andrew Luck, took a position last week as NCAA's new executive vice president for regulatory affairs. He is now number 2 at the NCAA. The number 1 guy's contract runs out 2017.
I am surprised this hasn't gotten any traction in the press.
Oliver Luck's resume makes him an absolute stud
The former star quarterback and Rhodes Scholar finalist at West Virginia went on to play five seasons in the NFL. After earning his law degree, Luck became a team executive with two different franchises in the European-based World League of American Football. He was later named CEO of NFL Europe, the successor to the WLAF, and also served as president of the Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo. In 2008, he was appointed to West Virginia University's board of governors and took over as the athletic director in 2010, where he heard plenty of complaints about the NCAA.
The NCAA (actually NorthWestern) lost the labor case which allows players to unionize. It's in appeal.
The NCAA lost the court case allowing players to be paid for NIL (names, images & likeness - i.e. EA Sports etc)
Harbaugh gets $8 million a year and some schmuck cornerback or pitcher gets busted for a $100 autograph. Well, that will soon end.
Earlier this year, Luck said players had a "constitutional right" to be compensated for the use of their names, images or likenesses. On Thursday, he called it a "fundamental right."
Now it's just a question of how to implement payment and this will be Lucks job. Some schools have already set aside trusts for payment.
Unfortunately, the timing of sportsbetting arguments in NJ is a little early.
The United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals has set a deadline for the New Jersey Attorney General’s office as well as the NCAA and sports leagues involved in the sports betting case In New Jersey, giving a deadline for filing briefs on both sides. The Attorney General’s office has until the 14th of this month to file a brief for the case while the leagues have until the 13th of February to reply.
The NCAA as big business will become much more transparent and any cries that betting will taint its purity during these proceedings will become increasingly laughable. Besides, the schools need the money they would most likely rake off the handle.
Interesting how Luck will weigh in on this.