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#10: Michigan Sports Properties GM Jennifer Cadicamo sits down with Iowa AD Beth Goetz, Texas Executive Senior Assoc. AD for Sports Administration Sarah Baumgartner and LEARFIELD NIL Partnerships Coordinator for Alabama Lexi Graber to discuss several topics, including how to support student-athletes in the NIL era. Baumgartner notes the hardest thing to find for student-athletes is time. “We can’t create it, can’t add it to their days, and at this level they’re here to win championships, they're here to go to school and get their degree. … I think the timepiece is really critical, because I think that's what weighs heavily on our kids. It adds stress, and there's the mental health component, so I think how do we help them with that is in my opinion as important as the content that we're offering and the education we’re offering.” Goetz on the belief among many female student-athletes NIL opportunities are tied to their physical appearance: “There’s a validity to that in some cases, maybe not all, but certainly in some. I think in and around that specific topic it’s something we have to continue to talk to our student-athletes about, and I think it goes back to you…making sure that when they're building their own personal brand what is important to them and how those values are going to align with those opportunities. … We need to continue to make sure that we help them and we position them as young women and individuals in a really holistic perspective that certainly showcases their athletic talent, but…also showcases the other things they're really passionate about.” Lots more. (link) |
#9: The Manhattan faculty senate has issued a vote of no confidence in President Milo Riverso. (link) |
#8: Vivature CEO Mouzon Bass and President Lance West Wilson, along with physician Robert Brent Scott, have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud, conspiring to commit healthcare fraud, and conspiring to commit money laundering. Another physician, Kyle Carter, has been charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud. The indictments allege that from roughly 2014-2023, Bass and Wilson used Vivature to submit false claims to private insurance carriers purporting that physicians, like Scott and Carter, were providing medical services for injured student-athletes at universities across the country. According to the DOJ, the services were actually performed by athletic trainers employed by the universities who were specifically excluded from insurance companies’ reimbursement policies. In total, the defendants are alleged to have collectively obtained more than $70M, which they used to purchase property, including a multimillion dollar home, lakehouse, and an international residence; and bought a multimillion dollar yacht. (link) |
#7: The attorneys general from Tennessee and Virginia subsequently responded to the NCAA’s arguments, writing: “It’s not Plaintiffs’ fault that the NCAA has decided to regulate NIL and recruitment through a byzantine set of overlapping rules of guidance. To the extent there’s confusion on which rules the NCAA thinks give it the power to enforce the NIL-recruiting ban, that problem is one of the NCAA’s own creation. The NCAA cannot benefit from the fact that its rules – scattered across a 437-page manual – are often impenetrable, shifting, and vague. … The NIL-recruiting ban injures athletes, in both Virginia and Tennessee, by artificially deflating their value in the marketplace. And athletes who get even close to the line, whether that line is drawn by the NCAA now or later, could have their eligibility taken away or their school competitively sanctioned. Either would further impact their NIL opportunities for the remainder of their brief opportunity to participate in college athletics.” More from the AGs. (link); Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti on Fox News: “I think federal regulation is the only answer to the federal antitrust legal problem, but what we have right now is already the wild west, but it's the wild west with arbitrary enforcement and that's really hurting these student athletes especially when they're unlucky enough to be in a school that gets in the crosshairs.” On the Title IX implications of NIL, Skrmetti notes NIL “is not something the university is giving the students, it's an inherent right that they have. It’s an intellectual property right in their name, their image, and their likeness, and the law is they retain that right whether they're playing for the school or not. So, this is a matter of a school interfering with their property rights in a way that suppressing their compensation Title IX can be kept completely separate from that because that is run through the universities.” (link) |
#6: NCAA VP of DI Governance Jenn Fraser sat down with Connect/MB Sports’ Matt Banker from the 2024 NCAA Convention to provide the latest information on the trending topics from the Transformation Committee, potential changes to transfer rules, ideas being discussed to incentivize reporting NIL deals, the status of football governance and lots more. On the possibility of incentivizing reporting NIL deals, Fraser says: “Even an idea like the support that institutions can give students…you know, perhaps student-athletes can't access that support if they don't comply with disclosure. It doesn't impact their eligibility to compete, but it does maybe hinder their ability to function well in the NIL environment. So, that's an idea that was floated this week. [We are] really looking for ways to allow athletes to maximize those opportunities, not impact their eligibility, but still really get a robust disclosure pool. … It's really important to note that we're not in a system of gotcha for student-athletes. That's not the point of this, not individually identifying certain student-athletes and what their NIL deals are. This is really about de-identification reporting and aggregate, really giving a sense to the landscape that people are so curious about.” Full interview on Connect. (link) |
#5: Here’s the NCAA’s full Consolidated Financial Statement from August 31, 2023 and 2022, which includes 27 pages of financial data for your review & enjoyment. (link) |
#4: Arizona State President Michael Crow speaking at a student forum this week said the Sun Devils are "approaching the timeframe" to begin appointing a new AD, adding that his main priority is restructuring "the relationship between athletics and the University." Crow went on to explain that ASU would only appoint a new AD once the athletic department is an "integrated unit like all the other units within the University financial and organizational infrastructure. … We have to find a way for it to be as self-sustaining as possible, which is quite challenging financially.” (link) |
#3: The NBA unveils the state-of-the-art full video LED court that will be used for this year’s NBA All-Star Game. The floor can change design and colors, show live replays and other video content as well as real-time stats, be used for interactive games with fans during timeouts and more. See for yourself. (link) |
#2: Tarleton State officially announces West Virginia Executive Deputy AD/COO Steve Uryasz as its next AD. President James Hurley on the hire: "I am excited about the innovative leadership, breadth of experience, and commitment to athletic and academic success that Steve Uryasz brings to our athletic department. Steve understands the rapid changing landscape of NCAA Division I athletics and embraces the opportunities that are before us here at Tarleton State. He's the perfect fit for our university, athletic department and our community." (link) |
#1: Dartmouth men’s basketball student-athletes are university employees and are therefore eligible to unionize under U.S. labor law, according to the NLRB Regional Director Laura Sacks, who finds: “Because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and because the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, the petitioned-for basketball players are employees within the meaning of the [National Labor Relations] Act. Additionally, I find that asserting jurisdiction would not create instability in labor relations. Accordingly, I shall direct an election in the petitioned-for unit. … Like the graduate student research assistants and teaching assistants in Columbia University, and like the football players in Northwestern University, the basketball players at issue here perform work which benefits Dartmouth. While there is some factual dispute as to how much revenue is generated by the men’s basketball program, and whether that program is profitable, the profitability of any given business does not affect the employee status of the individuals who perform work for that business. The basketball program clearly generates alumni engagement—and financial donations—as well as publicity which leads to student interest and applications. The Employer concedes that the players are representing Dartmouth when they wear Dartmouth-branded clothing and uniforms. While students at Dartmouth take part in many extracurricular activities, major media outlets do not pay for the right to broadcast and distribute video of the vast majority of those activities.” Full downloadable 26-page decision can be found here. (link); For more analysis of the landmark decision, here’s a Dartmouth-NLRB content supplement. (link) |
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