Category Archives: NCAA

Name, Image, and Likeness (Part Three of Three)

Top notch NCAA athletes like Zion Williamson bring thousands of dollars of attention to their respective schools. Without a doubt, Zion is worth plenty more than the scholarship plus $5,000 allotted to him (how about $5,000,000 or so more?). For every star NCAA athlete who may be up in arms about not being fairly compensatedContinue reading “Name, Image, and Likeness (Part Three of Three)”

Name, Image, and Likeness (Part Two of Three)

In Part Two of this Three part series, let’s take a dive in to some possible solutions that could provide student athletes with compensation for their Name, Image, and Likeness. Here’s three different options that could eliminate all of the NIL hubbub. Option One – Eliminate ageism in pro sports. Right now to turn pro,Continue reading “Name, Image, and Likeness (Part Two of Three)”

Name, Image, and Likeness Compensation (Part One of Three)

The NCAA sports landscape has widely become a tool for entertainment, not too different from your favorite Marvel Comics movie series. More and more, money is revolving around the NCAA’s ‘entertainment industry’, as NCAA football and basketball, at an exponentially greater extent than that of NCAA Olympic sports, continue to entertain a large population ofContinue reading “Name, Image, and Likeness Compensation (Part One of Three)”

The Petri Dish of Professional Sports

Welcome to your first Biology 101 Petri dish experiment. The startup of the MLB, NBA, and the NHL seasons has provided a classic laboratory test with elite athletes as the test subjects! These three have provided us with examples of how to reopen, and how not to reopen professional sports. The NCAA will be makingContinue reading “The Petri Dish of Professional Sports”

Pro sports is not the NCAA’s problem

The ideal (or old school) NCAA focused on amateurism and the student-athlete (SA). The prospective SA chose a school where he could participate in a sport or sports. He would still be considered an amateur even if he was getting money in the form of a scholarship to attend the school because of the sportContinue reading “Pro sports is not the NCAA’s problem”

Sports has an opportunity to reset

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity for a hard reset on sports. (As the computer techie would say – did you try just turning your computer off, then back on again to fix the problem?) Different managing entities in an array of sports are handling it well, and others are handling it in anContinue reading “Sports has an opportunity to reset”