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UPDATE Boring as hell - but important (NIL)

DavidHarns

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Oct 29, 2013
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College sports, as a whole, are in the middle of a shake up period with multiple lawsuits in progress that will most definitely alter the entire landscape of how the NCAA and the schools move forward in the new reality of student-athletes being paid (beyond tuition, room, board) for their services.

How Michigan State handles this will define Alan Haller's legacy at MSU far beyond anything he has done to date.

This ESPN article explains how the judge presiding over the biggest trial isn't thrilled with the current settlement terms. In short, the NCAA is trying to level the playing field by gaining agreement that NIL Collectives will go away in exchange for school revenue sharing with the student-athletes. Kind of an either/or type thing. But the judge is saying both/and.

Both sides have a few weeks to see if the settlement can be salvaged or if the case will proceed to trial. If the settlement is scuttled, we're in for a few more years of no-man's land where NIL Collectives are very important to the success of the program.

I'm hearing mixed reviews from sources in and around MSU about the health of the university-endorsed collective, Spartan Nation NIL.

Anyway, here's the article if you want to read further:
 
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