Dabo said he'd quit coaching if the players ever got paid, and then when NIL happened he backed off that and said he meant if they got paid by the schools directly. I assume he's been working on his resignation letter since the settlement got approved.

Here comes Congress to codify all this.

The power conferences released a statement applauding the discussion draft of a new House bill that's circulating.

Per a copy, the bill would grant NCAA protections, athlete healthcare/scholarships, state pre-emption & House codification (what you'd expect - nothing surprising). pic.twitter.com/pXNYTq26ta

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) June 10, 2025

I applaud the Pac-12 for being meaningful and meaningless at the same time…

There is currently zero probability of this legislation passing. Even Judge Wilkens suggested a collective bargaining agreement instead.

Under current labor laws, the schools have to make the student-athletes employees before they can collectively bargain.

AgLawman said:

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Under current labor laws, the schools have to make the student-athletes employees before they can collectively bargain.

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thats what the left wants.

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Under current labor laws, the schools have to make the student-athletes employees before they can collectively bargain.

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One imagines the faux collective bargaining session that the House settlement represents won't be durable, then…

Another example of how the revenue sharing will work.

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/clemson/2025/06/09/clemson-nil-pay-players-revenue-sharing-house-settlement/83276298007/

This won't improve anything. The cat is out of the bag and the under the table payments on top of the caps = unlimited budget if you can hide it. The NCAA has no teeth anymore, or the staff to actually do anything anyway.

I don't see a way to fix it except making a minor league, but the NFL wants nothing to do with that.

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This won't improve anything. The cat is out of the bag and the under the table payments on top of the caps = unlimited budget if you can hide it. The NCAA has no teeth anymore, or the staff to actually do anything anyway.

I don't see a way to fix it except making a minor league, but the NFL wants nothing to do with that.

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The clowns will change from wearing NCAA badges to P4 enforcement badges. The P4 knows the CFP revenue likely eventually exceeds the March Madness take that funds the NCAA. And that loss of fan trust is corrosive.

They might even admit they aren't sure these changes imposed by House are manageable. But Charlie Baker said they settled to avoid bankruptcy…

Collectives are back in business

NIL collectives are already back in business.

The CSC has back tracked on its guidance that collective deals inherently can’t be for a valid business purpose.

The contentious issue will now be whether collective deals are within the appropriate “range of compensation.” https://t.co/kItdp10XGT pic.twitter.com/ubzZstRUsq

— Mit Winter (@WinterSportsLaw) July 22, 2025

Paxton urges Texas ADs not to agree :

A letter from the Texas attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity.

Ken Paxton urges the seven A4 universities in Texas against signing the CSC’s participation agreement, which is only enforceable if all 68 A4 schools signhttps://t.co/UArRhOeMj4 pic.twitter.com/9D6BkuN6Xs

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 26, 2025

The obvious choice is not to sign, but we sux at contracts.

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I went to a Texas Tech football "state of the union" event last week. Friend was speaking and hey it's a free lunch with "football" talk. Anyway it gave me a lot of clarity on where we were with all sports in college when it pertains to NIL and "salary cap".

Cap….. $21.7 million is amount all schools are able to pay athletes. They believe only 40-50 schools will be able to hit this mark with their budgets. In Tech's case, they will use roughly $15 million on football, 3.5 on basketball, and a little over 1 million on baseball leaving just $2 million on all other sports.

NIL….will not be what it is now. It will be a true NIL, where verified companies give an athlete an NIL deal and it will be tested for legitimacy. No more collectives. This does not start until May 2025. There will be a free for all this offseason on NIL deals. Collectives will be exhausted by then at all schools. Gonna be a lot of money thrown around the next 6 months.

Transfer portal…..this part was a little confusing. The way I understood it was that it went hand in hand with the salary cap. Example: if Ole Miss wanted Walter Nolan and we were paying Nolan $750k. Ole Miss would have to pay us $750k plus pay Walter whatever his asking price was. Let's say that was $1 million. Nolan would then count 1.75 million against their 21.7 million.

Scholarship limits….for football the limit is 105. However any scholarships over 85 would count against the $21.7 million. Assume an average scholarship is worth $25k so if a team gave out 105 scholarships then 20 x $25k =$500k less on your allotted 21.7 million cap


At the end of the day, I think this will send college football back to recruiting being important and have a feeling it will be similar to 5 years ago.

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Sounds like we will have another lawsuit.