The official beginning of the death of the NCAA has begun

[Major Kong]

4 minutes ago, Eagle26 said:

Maybe if this comes to fruition, USA wrestling should step in and sponsor some RTC team duals and a championship tournament? As others have pointed out, there as so many good post high school options for your career path, why should someone who wants to continue their athletic career be forced to go to a traditional “4 year” college? College teams are already working closely with RTCs. Why not have them work together and a kid could be enrolled or not enrolled in the college for their team competitions?

You are basically describing wrestling as it exists in the rest of the world.

[Idaho]

3 hours ago, Eagle26 said:

Maybe if this comes to fruition, USA wrestling should step in and sponsor some RTC team duals and a championship tournament? As others have pointed out, there as so many good post high school options for your career path, why should someone who wants to continue their athletic career be forced to go to a traditional “4 year” college? College teams are already working closely with RTCs. Why not have them work together and a kid could be enrolled or not enrolled in the college for their team competitions?

That would be a logical landing place....and as mentioned what everyone else does. My concern would be  that it would be like a dropped program starting all over with no money and raising your own funds.  We would be down to the RTC's that have big money and donors. Perhaps all the other divisions would probably benefit. 

[Eagle26]

17 hours ago, Idaho said:

That would be a logical landing place....and as mentioned what everyone else does. My concern would be  that it would be like a dropped program starting all over with no money and raising your own funds.  We would be down to the RTC's that have big money and donors. Perhaps all the other divisions would probably benefit. 

You are probably right and it seems everything always goes the route of “the rich get richer”. But I will add that many of the small programs are already doing a lot of their own fundraising. Potentially, the school could continue to help fund as well because it is still a draw to their school. RTCs could work together like Penn and Drexel at PRTC. It would be cool to see local tech schools and things like that work together with universities and it may help the smaller schools get more athletes 

[RYou]

This partnership has nothing to do with splitting from the NCAA and everything to do with the NIL fiasco.  That Tennessee judge just lifted all of the plastic handcuffs the NCAA had used to slow the steamroller down.  Now it's been unleashed.  B1G and SEC are looking at how to deal with this unspoken professional development program.  Combine it with the Dartmouth NLRB decision stating student athletes are employees of the university, which no university wants, and you've got the basis for arms distance university affiliation, if not ownership of a minor league team for sports.  

Should that NLRB be upheld under court appeal, you'll almost all small schools erase their contact sport athletic programs.  They won't want to be paying someone (wouldn't even have to be a graduate) lifetime work comp medical and disability benefits and open up the full employee benefits package to the student participants.

Just hope Congress adopts some kind of an amateur sports law that prevents students designated as employees of the university that can pass muster in the courts.

Edited February 24 by RYou

[Idaho]

1 hour ago, RYou said:

This partnership has nothing to do with splitting from the NCAA and everything to do with the NIL fiasco.  That Tennessee judge just lifted all of the plastic handcuffs the NCAA had used to slow the steamroller down.  Now it's been unleashed.  B1G and SEC are looking at how to deal with this unspoken professional development program.  Combine it with the Dartmouth NLRB decision stating student athletes are employees of the university, which no university wants, and you've got the basis for arms distance university affiliation, if not ownership of a minor league team for sports.  

Should that NLRB be upheld under court appeal, you'll almost all small schools erase their contact sport athletic programs.  They won't want to be paying someone (wouldn't even have to be a graduate) lifetime work comp medical and disability benefits and open up the full employee benefits package to the student participants.

Just hope Congress adopts some kind of an amateur sports law that prevents students designated as employees of the university that can pass muster in the courts.

Yep.... huge liability for schools. Getting mixed up in all of this will be "part-time" vs "full-time" employee status. 

If schools want no part of this liability it will certainly go the route of amateur leagues... which I have stated for a long time will not have the same support as a school sponsored program. NIL will no longer be a thing....it will simply be signing a contract for X$ and those providing NIL now will support an amateur league as much as they support arena football. 

[Rassling]

1 hour ago, RYou said:

This partnership has nothing to do with splitting from the NCAA and everything to do with the NIL fiasco.  That Tennessee judge just lifted all of the plastic handcuffs the NCAA had used to slow the steamroller down.  Now it's been unleashed.  B1G and SEC are looking at how to deal with this unspoken professional development program.  Combine it with the Dartmouth NLRB decision stating student athletes are employees of the university, which no university wants, and you've got the basis for arms distance university affiliation, if not ownership of a minor league team for sports.  

Should that NLRB be upheld under court appeal, you'll almost all small schools erase their contact sport athletic programs.  They won't want to be paying someone (wouldn't even have to be a graduate) lifetime work comp medical and disability benefits and open up the full employee benefits package to the student participants.

Just hope Congress adopts some kind of an amateur sports law that prevents students designated as employees of the university that can pass muster in the courts.

Not surprised at all.