In case you were operating under some notion that new NCAA President Charlie Baker was prepared to deliver a fresh approach to resolving NIL concerns in at least a somewhat reasonable manner, allow him to set the record straight.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except I don’t think I ever heard Mark Emmert propose something as stupid as “I would love to create some transparency and accountability around that, so that families actually know what they’re getting into, and I would really like to see some sort of uniform standard contract, so that when somebody signs it, they know they’re signing the same kind of agreement everybody else is signing,”
I’m sure you would, dude. Except the courts would toss out your uniform standard contract if you tried to do it on your own and there’s no way Congress is going to wade in and do it for you.
The schools really don’t have anything more to offer. And the longer term problem they’ve got is that as this goes on, NIL payments become more and more normalized in the eyes of the public. It’s too late for the NCAA to stop now, I guess.
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