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Founder/EiC of @NILnomics. PhD in college sports finances. Likely overanalyzing your school's athletic budget right now. Yes-your school is losing $. Subscribe!
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Today I’m launching something new:
NILnomics — a newsletter about the 💰 and 📊 behind college athletics.
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Dr. College Sports Finance retweeted
If this bill ends up passing, the constitutional challenges to it are going to be fascinating.
Can you just sever out the obvious private nondelegation issues like this one?
Will the courts go with the Fifth Circuit rule that delegating enforcement is unconstitutional too?
Interesting change to the eligibility wording in the latest PCSA draft, which now includes, "serious athletic injury or medical condition" as possible exceptions to the 5-year eligibility rule -- if adopted by NCAA rule. The previous version of the text from August did not include that clause.
The NCAA's 5-for-5 rule change specifically eliminated medical (or illness) waivers that were commonplace for years. But that has been targeted already in at least one federal lawsuit.
The revised text still uses the term "calendar year" to define eligibility, which is commonly defined as January 1-December 31 and not aligned with "academic year." By the letter of the law as written, that would be problematic for spring sports athletes in their 5th academic year but 6th calendar year since enrollment.
I'm very excited to continue the partnership with Kyle and @NILNewsstand. We've published some great work together and I expect it will only get better.
NILNewsstand 🤝 NILnomics — extended through August 2027.
Our partnership with @gregchickphd will continue for another 12 months, bringing more original research, data analysis and live discussions to the NILNewsstand Data Series.
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ALT NILNewsstand 🤝 NILnomics — extended through August 2027.
My thought exactly. It's Bowens Law embodied. I'll have more soon.
Cantwell's report relies on GAO data from before the House settlement ushered in revenue sharing. The GAO data actually shows that Division I spending on coaches grew faster than spending on athlete scholarships, up to twice as fast, from 2014 to 2024.
Players didn't cause the deficit. The schools did. The players shouldn't be the ones paying for that overspending. And Congress shouldn't bail the schools out with an antitrust exemption.
Full GAO report below.
Listen my school MFRS, conference 1099, scraped D1 staff directory, and other datasets I've developed for @NILnomics and @NILNewsstand are all great.
But nothing will be a better conversation starter than this @DavidCovucci hat on the bookshelf!
If you're not reading his free newsletter - you should! Subscribe: foiaball.com/subscribe
Dr. College Sports Finance retweeted
Why is #unionization such a hot topic in college sports?
It’s not about unions. It’s about checks and balances.
Athletes have been described as labor, commodities—even “replaceable every 3–4 years.”
I’ve spent 23 years in a sport system where athletes can have little power over the rules governing them. I love sport, and I love my country. 🇺🇸 Criticizing a structure isn’t condemnation.
The American principle: concentrated power needs checks and balances.
In college sports, courts have recognized the NCAA’s monopsony power in the athlete labor market. Antitrust law has provided one check on that power.
So what happens when that check is restricted—or removed?
You need another one.
Call it collective bargaining. Call it negotiated governance. Call it independent athlete representation.
The label matters ZERO to me. The principle does:
If you remove competition as the check on concentrated power, you have to replace it with representation.
Athletes aren’t simply another expense on a spreadsheet. They provide the labor. They assume the physical risk. And they create the competition people come to watch.
Athletes ARE sport.
If we protect the system, the people who are the system should have a meaningful voice in it. 🇺🇸
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Great research and great visuals. Bravo.
How much did your team spend on its roster?
Our staff @TheAthletic spent months and talked to countless people inside and outside of every Power 4 program in search of the answer.
Here's what we found. Free story: nytimes.com/athletic/interac…
Dr. College Sports Finance retweeted
College sports weren't in a state of emergency when football and basketball coaches became their states' highest earning public employees and got many millions in buyouts not to coach.
It only became a problem when the workers who generate the billions in profit got paid too.
Dr. College Sports Finance retweeted
Just curious, @ESPNPR: Will Disney/ESPN afford @ChrisMurphyCT equal time on @CollegeGameDay? I know fair and balanced airtime is a big concern for @BrendanCarrFCC
Ted Cruz on @CollegeGameDay now, talking to @ReceDavis about Protect College Sports Act.
Ray is speaking the truth. His site is gold - please take a look!
Dr. College Sports Finance retweeted
New @NILnomics research from @gregchickphd:
The Seventeen: What Seven Years of Athletic Director Turnover Reveals
Seventeen of the 68 Power Four programs still employ the athletic director they had on January 1, 2020.
The other 51 have changed at least once.
Greg analyzed seven years of Power Four AD turnover — 62 hires and 63 departures — to understand how the people running college athletics are changing.
One of the biggest findings: Power Four programs have increasingly stopped developing athletic directors and started buying experience.
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Disappointing but not surprising that no one wants to address gambling.
They say college athletes finally getting paid is destroying the sport.
Meanwhile young men are having their lives destroyed.
The college sports industrial complex doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
The thing about the Protect College Sports Act that gets me… imagine if we panicked as the coaching salaries, mobility, and most of all.. the insane buyouts got crazier and crazier. Imagine if we pushed a bill deciding what coaches can and can’t do without consulting them. It would never fly.
Yet here we are limiting players. What they can make. How and when they can transfer. Etc etc. (And let me be clear, I’m supportive of guidelines) but is this not how we got here in the first place?
By deciding what the players couldn’t do without letting them have a voice just to the other extreme? (Meaning no NIL, No Bagels with cream cheese, etc.)
Now we’re going behind their back to the other extreme.
I don’t see how there’s a future bill/ future guidelines capping the players without hearing the players voice and getting them to sign off on it.
I’d imagine even if it got passed there will be further lawsuits. In a true free market, no one can artificially decide my salary cap but myself and the market.
You need a CBA, which would involve the players, but it won’t be easy. They’re incentivized and benefit from the current chaos. They make more from the way it’s set up right now. They will fight, and rightfully so, to keep it *as is* if this bill gets momentum and gets passed.
Why not ask each team to vote for 2-5 player reps per team. Include a committee of players across each conference. And let the players have a say in the future of the sport. It makes the most sense morally and logically. How can you artificially *command* the players to give up money, freedom, and leverage without *asking* them?
