04/29: NCAA rubber-stamps that college players will be allowed to make money off their name, image and likeness beginning in 2021 -- but here's the catch
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Wednesday was a historic day in NCAA history. The organization, through the power of its Board of Governors, announced that name, image and likeness legislation has been approved, with the vote going into action come January of 2021. There are obviously issues and criticisms, two of which stab at the heart of all of this, so Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander make it much clearer in the first 30 minutes just how much still needs to be done and where the NCAA is going to find itself in some trouble. There's some basketball to discuss as well. After Sunday's NBA Draft decision deadline (34:20), Norlander lists the eight biggest stay-or-go decisions that remain, plus five other really good players in the draft pool he thinks will inevitably return to college basketball. The podcast definitely loses the plot around the 52-minute mark, so you've got that to look forward to as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there it's Gary Parish at Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Welcome back to the CBS Sports |
| 0:11.7 | Eye on College Basketball Podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting and leaky |
| 0:16.4 | black Mad Norlander is here with me and let the records show that the NCAA took a step |
| 0:20.2 | this morning in an attempt to allow college athletes to capitalize on their name, image |
| 0:25.0 | and lightness. |
| 0:26.0 | The governor's they've approved recommendations proposed by a working group so now a formal |
| 0:32.2 | proposal is scheduled to be submitted no later than October. The NCAA board should vote |
| 0:37.1 | no later than January and the new rules are expected to take effect at the start of the |
| 0:42.3 | 2021-22 academic year. We're going to get into the details momentarily but my main takeaway |
| 0:49.2 | is that it's a step at the right direction but not a big enough step because it doesn't |
| 0:53.2 | meet the standard of California's law or the law that's scheduled to take effect in |
| 0:57.7 | Florida on July 1, 2021. That's a problem unless Congress creates federal legislation that |
| 1:03.9 | supersedes all state laws, is Congress going to do that? We'll see. The NCAA wants to restrict |
| 1:09.3 | the market and they don't want endorsement opportunities to be a recruiting tool and as I've |
| 1:14.2 | stated many times, restricting the market is just wrong and could possibly be illegal in some |
| 1:19.6 | states and how they think endorsement opportunities won't be a recruiting tool remains impossible |
| 1:25.1 | to understand. On a telecom this morning, Mark Emmer, Gene Smith, Val Akerman, all smart people |
| 1:30.9 | were asked about these things and they largely acknowledge they don't have good answers yet. |
| 1:35.1 | The implication was that they'll have good answers eventually but if you don't have them already |
| 1:39.7 | after months and months of talking and thinking about this, the reason you don't have them is |
| 1:43.8 | probably because they don't exist. So again, step in the right direction, sure but it's not a big |
| 1:48.6 | enough step because anything short of a free and fair market is something short of a free and |
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