It would be hilarious if he launched into an Alabama take at the presser. Old habits do die hard, after all.
Daily Archives: July 26, 2023
“We can’t keep doing what we’re doing and hope this just works out.”
Color me legitimately surprised at this. Somebody involved with college athletics is thinking proactively.
The Collective Association (TCA), a group of seven of the richest donor-led collectives in the country, is preparing to take the next step in the conversation. While college administrators squabble over legislation around NIL, leaders of the TCA are focused on what many believe is the next evolution of athlete compensation: revenue sharing.
Members of TCA presented a revenue-sharing model to SEC and NCAA officials last week in separate meetings — which illustrates the urgency for answers from high-ranking figures within college athletics. The proposal is merely a general framework of a plan that calls for using television network money to compensate athletes.
According to the proposal, which was shared with Yahoo Sports, a portion of the television revenue distributed to conferences would be directed to a designated collective at each member school in equal shares. The collective would then distribute money to that school’s athletes, using its status as a third party as a way to avoid triggering athlete employment, they said.
The aggressive proposal is certain to face significant hurdles in both legality and acceptance among a college landscape that continues to cling to the amateurism model. However, the movement could spark a conversation that many are already holding privately within NCAA circles.
That’s the point, said Matt Hibbs, the CEO of the Classic City Collective supporting Georgia athletics.
“We want to have this discussion. We want to have a conversation about solutions,” Hibbs told Yahoo Sports when contacted about the meetings with both SEC and NCAA executives. “The important piece we all want is to preserve college athletics. In order to do that, something has to change. We can’t keep doing what we’re doing and hope this just works out.”
And a Dawg shall lead them! (Makes you wonder if Smart has had any input into this. I’m thinking yes, but that’s rank speculation on my part.)
Anyway, good for y’all. It’s a better strategy than sitting back and hoping that the likes of Tommy Tuberville bail the schools out.
Filed under It's Just Bidness
Rationalizing on the Flats
Brent Key, on expectations:
“My expectations are not defined by wins and losses and production. My expectations are defined by our guys going out and playing as hard as they possibly can,” Key said. “So expectations are hard, they really are, to say because I don’t live in that world because now you put expectations on these guys, and say they don’t get one. Now are they a failure? These guys are going to graduate from Georgia Tech, man. They’re not failures. Not at all.
“So undue expectations are different for me in the way that I look at things.”
At Georgia Tech, you can do that.
Filed under Blowing Smoke, Georgia Tech Football
Don’t delay, do it today
Want to go to a game at Sanford Stadium, but didn’t have the scratch to buy season tickets? Well, buddy, opportunity has come knocking at your door.
UGA athletics sent out emails to fans Tuesday offering up tickets for three nonconference home games, all in September.
Tickets for games against UT-Martin Sept. 2, Ball State on Sept. 9 and UAB on Sept. 23 are available for $55 a ticket. The UT-Martin game is a 6 p.m. kickoff and Ball State is noon. The UAB game time has yet to be announced.
Georgia would set the school record for consecutive home sellouts with 65 if all the tickets for the UT-Martin game are sold. The streak began on Sept. 15, 2012 against Florida Atlantic.
Could the soft September nonconference schedule end that sellout streak?
The tickets for these games are available “due to visiting team returns,” the email said.
They are available in all but one of the upper 600 sections for UT-Martin and all of the 600s for Ball State and UAB.
Come on down and bring the whole family! You may never have the chance again to see a two-time defending national champ live. (Besides, Kirby needs you on that line.)
Filed under Georgia Football
“So… they’re pretty good.”
Don’t know if you caught this clip of Mississippi State’s Will Rogers at SEC Media Days. It’ll make you smile if you’re a Georgia fan.
Filed under Georgia Football
Musical palate cleanser, aged like fine wine edition
Wanna feel old today?
I tell you, it’s going to be very weird when we’re celebrating Keef’s 120th.
Filed under Uncategorized
Always good for a laugh
So Senators Manchin and Tuberville introduced their college athletics bill — it’s too broad to merely label it NIL legislation. I’m not going to waste anyone’s time parsing it here, because it’s going nowhere. It contains a safe harbor antitrust exemption that makes it DOA. (If you’re interested in the gory details, read ’em here.)
That being said, anything involving Tommy Tuberville has a decent likelihood of containing some element of amusement, and this bill is no exception, as Bruce Feldman demonstrates.
By the way, they claim the bill “strikes a balance between protecting the rights of student-athletes and maintaining the integrity of college sports.” That’s a funny way to describe federalizing NCAA regulations.
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UPDATE: For what it’s worth, there’s already another bill dropping in the hopper after Tuberville’s.
Truth in scheduling
Pete Fiutak, speaking truth:
Not that he’s gonna convince anyone who doesn’t want to hear it.
Filed under Georgia Football
Get The Picture 
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