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    NIL expert says Big East will be first, SEC last in revenue assigned to basketball …..

    It would appear from his tweet that Jon Wilner doesn’t understand the difference between Phil Knight and Nike.
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    NIL expert says Big East will be first, SEC last in revenue assigned to basketball …..

    Yeah, I’m not sure where UK will land in terms of allocations between the two sports, and hopefully NIL will be able to augment things. However, the one tricky thing about NIL moving forward has to do with whether or not the new clearinghouse run by Deloitte can actually be effective. If it...
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    NIL expert says Big East will be first, SEC last in revenue assigned to basketball …..

    The 1.48m figure isn’t right either. It’s too low in terms of average viewers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if our ranking is around 28th. The 1.48m figure is based on taking the total number of viewers from the 4 Nielsen rated games and dividing by 12. This means you’re assuming we had zero...
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    NIL expert says Big East will be first, SEC last in revenue assigned to basketball …..

    The 4.5m is based on the ratings for only 4 of our games, all of which also happened to be on ABC (which brings higher ratings than cable channels). And our opponents in those games were UGA, Texas, Ole Miss and South Carolina. It’s not accurate to say that the 4.5m represents our season...
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    NIL expert says Big East will be first, SEC last in revenue assigned to basketball …..

    Football may drive media rights in the aggregate, but that doesn’t hold true for UK, Duke, UNC or Kansas. Those basketball programs are valued differently. If you told ESPN they were going to lose the rights to either UK basketball or football and had to pick which one to keep, ESPN is going...
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    OT: most frivolous lawsuit of the year?

    There is no lawyer on the complaint that was filed. This looks like some random guy in Georgia just pulled this together and filed it himself. He even asked the court to waive the filing fee because he said he’s unable to pay it. I’m honestly not sure why this is even a story. There are lots...
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    University Of Kentucky Converts New Model To Convert Athletics Department Into “Champions Blue LLC.’

    They aren’t hiring an LLC. They’re shifting the athletics department to a new legal entity. For other schools that have organizations like Beyond Blue Corporation already in place, I would not be surprised to them follow UK’s lead on this (I’m assuming that Champions Blue LLC would roll up...
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    I Hate This Era

    No, it’s unenforceable because of the law. Has nothing to do with whether or not these deals are legitimate NIL deals. And colleges are planning to address this as part of the House settlement. If the settlement gets approved, then the new NIL clearinghouse will start reviewing these deals...
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    I Hate This Era

    It’s not naive, it’s the reality of what’s occurring. These buyout clauses are largely unenforceable they way collectives have been writing them. And, in some states, the state’s NIL won’t allow this type of arrangement. But even if the state’s NIL law isn’t an issue, that doesn’t necessarily...
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    I Hate This Era

    They’re also not the first. Collectives have been attempting this more frequently for the past year. Generally, the athlete ignores them and the collectives don’t recover anything.
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    I Hate This Era

    It’s pretty easy to ask an attorney to send someone a demand letter. But just because the attorney is willing to send the letter, that doesn’t mean their client actually has a good case or an enforceable contract. Sometimes these letters can be nothing more than saber rattling. The fact that...
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    Judge Claudia Wilken has spoken on the revenue share issue.

    Division 2 schools aren’t making huge amounts of revenue and yet, on average, each school sponsors 16.5 sports. The average Division 1 school sponsors 18 sports. You don’t need huge sums of money to sponsor non-revenue sports. One of the biggest differences between Division 1 programs and...
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    Judge Claudia Wilken has spoken on the revenue share issue.

    The NFL prohibits circumvention of the salary cap. That’s what this settlement is attempting to do for student athletes. The Deloitte clearinghouse will permit athletes to enter into as many NIL deals as they want. What they’re attempting to block is pay for play. Almost all of the deals...
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    Judge Claudia Wilken has spoken on the revenue share issue.

    You’re understanding things correctly.
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    I Hate This Era

    In terms of hold outs, the first hold out that I’m aware of was the 1937 Pitt football team. They were undefeated and defending national champions. When they received an invite to the 1938 Rose Bowl, the players demanded that the university increase their pay to cover the additional...
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