09/12: California is one step away from allowing players to be paid. The NCAA is threatening to eliminate state schools from championship competition
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The only thing that awaits California college athletes the inalienable right to make money off their name, image and likeness -- and not face the threat of losing eligibility or a scholarship -- is the signature of state governor Gavin Newsom. It's led to a fascinating showdown between California and the NCAA. There are big-picture consequences that could alter the pillars of amateurism. Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish spend the first 40 minutes of the podcast explaining the actual law at stake, what the NCAA has said, what it can do and how things will play out in the years to come because of all of this. From there, they discuss Wednesday's report (40:20) that former Arizona assistant Book Richardson was willing to pay $40,000 to have a former Arizona player's high school transcript falsified to get him into school. They wrap with the somehow-still-ongoing recruiting of No. 2 2020 recruit Cade Cunningham (56:00). Oklahoma State hired his brother months ago, yet he's still being courted by Kentucky, UNC, Florida and Washington. Uh-oh?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Pashin's Thursday, September 12, 2019. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome back to the CBS Sports, our high on college basketball podcast where we sometimes |
| 0:13.6 | discuss camera fighting and lead to Black, Matt, Norland, and it's here with the end. |
| 0:18.0 | We actually do, surprise, surprise, have a few interesting things to get to today, most |
| 0:21.6 | notably, SB206. |
| 0:22.6 | It's now in the hands of the California Governor and if Gavin Newsom signs it and I think |
| 0:29.5 | there's no reason to think that he won't, even if the NCAA has asked him not to, it's |
| 0:34.7 | going to become California law on January 1, 2023 at which point student athletes at universities |
| 0:42.0 | in California, including 4-packed 12 programs, will be allowed to profit off of their name, |
| 0:48.2 | image, and likeness, which is obviously at this moment a violation of NCAA rules. |
| 0:54.3 | It would still to be clear, be a violation of NCAA rules unless the NCAA rules change. |
| 0:59.4 | But it would be against the law for the universities in California to prevent their student |
| 1:08.3 | athletes from doing it by taking away their scholarship, by taking away their eligibility. |
| 1:14.4 | Norlander, you've been writing about this this week, so I'll let you further explain what |
| 1:19.6 | does, what's happening in California mean, and this is probably an impossible question |
| 1:25.1 | to answer, but I'll ask it anyway. |
| 1:27.4 | What does it mean for the future of college athletics? |
| 1:29.9 | It means the future of college athletics is going to be changing perhaps at a pace quicker |
| 1:34.7 | than the NCAA would like and yet at the same time still not fast enough for a non-insignificant |
| 1:40.7 | portion of the public that has been clamoring for student athletes to have more ability |
| 1:46.6 | to make money based off of their talents while they're still in school. |
| 1:50.4 | The only thing that's preventing this from becoming law at the moment is California Governor |
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