College Athletics Branding - Name Image Likeness Rules

[notredomer23]

Not laughing at you, laughing at the pearl clutching.

"MIAMI — In a Dec. 19 Instagram post announcing his intention to remain at Duke for the 2026 football season, quarterback Darian Mensah declared, “This team, this locker room, this family welcomed me with open arms ... When the odds were against us, we kept fighting. I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world.”

Four weeks later, barely beating the deadline to enter the transfer portal, Mensah traded it. He’s walking out on the second season of a two-year contract...


The first rule of modern college football is that loyalty is disposable."


Like this doesn't already happen throughout humanity/society. Every team, everywhere. Someone received new information and changed their mind. How many coaches make the same statements before leaving for a better job?

"OHHHHHH WHAT IS WE GON DOOOOOO!!!!???????"

My POV is if Miami wants to pay his buyout and bring him over all good, but the ACC giving Miami all the playoff money is the issue. The word on the street is his buyout is $4MM and they’re gonna pay him $6MM. Would they be able to afford that without the playoff money? Maybe, but it doesn’t look good for the ACC.

 

[jprue24]

My POV is if Miami wants to pay his buyout and bring him over all good, but the ACC giving Miami all the playoff money is the issue. The word on the street is his buyout is $4MM and they’re gonna pay him $6MM. Would they be able to afford that without the playoff money? Maybe, but it doesn’t look good for the ACC.

Revenue sharing is capped, so probably.

Two types of contracts and therefore streams of money. Rev sharing and NIL/endorsements. Rev sharing contracts are with the University, NIL/endorsements with third parties who either want you on the team or want you to endorse because they are on the team.

Playoff money is going into the university's coffers so it isn't going to impact NIL funds, only rev sharing funds. Rev sharing funds are still capped so the "extra" playoff money is going to some other area of the program/athletic department/university

 

[Pete]

This seems like it should be a conflict of interest

Judge Who Ruled Former Pro Eligible Is Six-Figure Alabama Booster

The judge’s family has given six figures to the athletic department and his wife is representing a former basketball player in a murder case.

frontofficesports.com

 

[IRISHDODGER]

This seems like it should be a conflict of interest

Judge Who Ruled Former Pro Eligible Is Six-Figure Alabama Booster

The judge’s family has given six figures to the athletic department and his wife is representing a former basketball player in a murder case.

frontofficesports.com

Damn, SEC isn’t taking it lightly that the rest of CFB has caught up.

 

[JamIrish]

Looks like college football teams will start
wearing advertisements next year. You guys want ND to partake? If so, what are some brands you'd like to see?

NCAA approves uniform patches, opening up new revenue streams

The NCAA unearthed another revenue stream Friday when Division I leaders approved patches for uniforms in a move that could generate millions to fund athletic departments.

www.espn.com

 

[tko]

Spiece

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Looks like college football teams will start
wearing advertisements next year. You guys want ND to partake? If so, what are some brands you'd like to see?

NCAA approves uniform patches, opening up new revenue streams

The NCAA unearthed another revenue stream Friday when Division I leaders approved patches for uniforms in a move that could generate millions to fund athletic departments.

www.espn.com

I hate it, but was inevitable. Tradition is dead.

 

[stlnd01]

Looks like college football teams will start
wearing advertisements next year. You guys want ND to partake? If so, what are some brands you'd like to see?

NCAA approves uniform patches, opening up new revenue streams

The NCAA unearthed another revenue stream Friday when Division I leaders approved patches for uniforms in a move that could generate millions to fund athletic departments.

www.espn.com

No and none.

And if the NBA is any guide, it won't be brands you care about.

List of NBA jersey sponsors - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

The Blackhawks have "Circa" on their sweater and it's awful. Best jersey in sports ruined by an ad.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Notre Dame will never have a sponsor on its jersey, they barely allow ads in the stadium

 

[NDdomer2]

Notre Dame will never have a sponsor on its jersey, they barely allow ads in the stadium

Besides under armor?

 

[GoldenAura]

I’d be pissed if ND ever decided to do this. Advertising is such a cancer (except when it helps keep the lights on at IE 😉).

 

[Dale]

 

[Dale]

LSU, Texas Tech and Oregon come on down!

 

[irishff1014]

It looks bad enough in the sleeves of the baseball jerseys.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I have a profound confusion in this area and maybe someone sees this well enough to help out.

Let's say we have many players around the country who are making big salaries with NIL contracts (or anything for that matter) and as far as the courts are concerned they are employees (of somebody) on contract. And, not a few of these guys think that they have a chance to make this sport their living for many years.

To do their current job they find it more pleasant to use some of their 1.5 million dollar per year salary to buy a house somewhere, a nice car, get up in the morning and drive into work. They get to the gym and utilize the facilities and everything else in support services to train and/or practice and often have a shirt on featuring the name of an academic organization.

But they decide that any time spent involved with that academic organization is a complete waste of time, even the former BS phony business about "grades" or "staying in school" or "being eligible" is a bore and wasted time in terms of getting ready for Ball in the long haul. Sooner or later, even the academic organization is aware that this employee is in no sense a "student" yet wears the jersey which just recently at least claims so.

Now, what if a college realizes that "they" really need to "flunk" this employee from their school? (In what sense can they call the guy a "junior" if he's never attended nor passed a class?) The employee isn't in any way involved with the school at all, except wearing a jersey with the name on it. CAN they flunk him out and declare him ineligible to play -- DESPITE the "contract"? All this can happen after the fact of signing a contract, so the school could not have crystal-balled that this guy would give ZERO time to even pretending to be a student.

I come to this inquiry with more urgency just this moment, because we have just had two college coaches (one fired) for outwardly talking about players not living up to what sounds like "contract responsibilities." I EASILY see players saying "ANY time I waste pretending to have anything to do with classrooms or teachers or books is time wasted for my ambitions. I HAVE a contract. YOU must honor it and let me use the facilities and play."

Business is business. When the Employee Talent is the difference in the terms of signing a contract, the Employee might just RUN the terms and the day-to-day. I don't like any of the possibilities here. Especially since COACHES too can see where their bread is buttered and that more time working at the sport and less time having anything to do with "school" should make the game-time results better.

 

[NDWarrior]

 

[IRISHDODGER]

If you were a SWC member and not on NCAA probation, you weren’t really trying.

 

[GowerND11]

Commodification continues. Need to squeeze every last cent out of everyone, everywhere. God forbid we can't be happy with profits and revenues as they are. NOPE! NEED MOORRREEEE!!!!!

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Judge denies Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar's eligibility bid

A judge has denied Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar's request for a preliminary injunction to play another season withe Volunteers, effectively ending his college career.

www.espn.com

As someone who lives in Knoxville and knows almost nothing about the vols

This judge is going to have to watch his back. Props to him for helping to protect the integrity of the game and not taking the easy way out

 

[texbender]

Article in today's Dallas Morning News about how SMU megadonors have committed $50M " to just get started" funding athletes, and that they can and will compete with anyone in the NIL world.