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From corner bar to high-rise boardroom, it has long been suggested that a “commissioner” or CEO overseer of college sports would solve the incredibly complicated day-to-day operation of top stakeholder schools.
“Maybe a Nick Saban or someone,” Matt Mitten, law professor and executive director of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette, recently suggested.
Maybe.
Yahoo Sports reported last week the creation of an LLC among the four power conferences that will oversee implementation of the House settlement – basically the option for schools to establish an annual $20.5 million pot of cash to pay athletes.
It has already been established that a new CEO position – the qualifications of which are speculated above — is being created to oversee enforcement of the new revenue-sharing model. That CEO would report to a board and head an investigatory group to ensure schools don’t surpass that revenue-sharing cap.
It’s never been done before. But what choice do those commissioners have with the model already being reshaped like a can of Play-Doh? Or, as noted sports law attorney Tom Mars predicted, face “death by a thousand injunctions.”
Saban could be an appealing choice to…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2025-02-12 17:23:00
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