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[Chris B]

@JayBilas: Go to http://t.co/qpH4tNnIpH, type in "Manziel" in upper right search box, hit enter. This comes up. http://t.co/N7KNvXIu24

Bilas is a great Twitter follow.

He crushes the NCAA daily...its hilarious.

It really is. Sprinkled in those tweets about the NCAA search box was one of him and Mark Emmert.

[Chris B]

@ESPNAndyKatz: NCAA pres Mark Emmert comes out strong saying NCAA won't be in business of selling school jerseys. He said NCAA will exit that business.

Absolutely hilarious.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Yahoo!: Longtime NCAA president Mark Emmert announces resignation

 

Good riddance!

[BSLMikeLowe]

The Athletic (paywall): With Mark Emmert retiring, who looks presidential? Identifying 10 top candidates.

 

Who the next president is, and his/her background, might say a lot about where the organization sees itself in the future.

[CantonJester]

Condoleezza Rice would be perfect to stick at the top of the rotting, fetid corpse that is collegiate athletics. 

[BSLMikeLowe]

If the NCAA wants to survive intact, it needs to appoint someone who understands that modern day college athletics cannot exist as a one-size-fits-all entity. The same rules that apply to the University of Maryland aren't going to work for Goucher College, and vice versa.

 

As much as people don't want change, it's inevitable. While I don't think the day is on the near horizon, I do think the endgame is that we'll see players in the big conferences, primarily the revenue sports, that are paid employees of the school. Might as well prepare for it now, before the courts force you to adapt all at once and all hell breaks loose. (see: NIL)

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: Forget NIL -- these are the real issues college leaders need to solve

https://www.espn.com...ders-need-solve

[BSLChrisStoner]

• Sources: CFP mulls breaking football out of NCAA

[BSLMikeLowe]

Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker will be the next NCAA president. He’ll take over March 1. His second term as governor ends in January.

 

Interesting choice. No prior college administrative experience, which I think is actually a plus. He, his wife, and his two sons are all former college athletes. As a two-term Republican in a heavily Democratic state, he’s very likely a pragmatic person.

Grant Hill was apparently a finalist. He’d have been a great choice, but imagine he’d be way too pro players for the NCAA.

[BSLMikeLowe]

You don’t want to read too much into the questioning by judges at a hearing, but yesterday still was probably not a good day for the NCAA before the Third Circuit.

 

https://www.sportico...caa-1234710033/

 

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard dueling arguments from attorneys for the NCAA and for former Villanova football player Trey Johnson and other athletes over whether Division I college athletes are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). 

 

To put it mildly, the panel regarded the NCAA’s core principle that college athletes shouldn’t be paid as unpersuasive and incongruous, and the judges signaled they view college athletes as employees.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Big news today on two separate fronts. Feldman has a whole thread to follow up his tweet that outlines the NLRB complaint, and how it might affect every school, not just USC. IIRC, the California bill would only require revenue sharing, and not that athletes would be employees.

 

 

Gabe Feldman

@SportsLawGuy

 

Big news: The NLRB Region issued a formal complaint against USC, the Pac-12, and the NCAA today. The complaint alleges that the college athletes "have been and are employees within the meaning" of the NLRB and have been misclassified as "non-employee student athletes."

 

 

Steve Berkowitz

@ByBerkowitz

 

California Assembly Appropriations Committee passes bill that would create possibility of revenue sharing for college athletes. Bill was passed with only Democrats support. There was an indication it may be amended further. Bill now goes to the Assembly floor.