JD Vance fumbles Ohio State title trophy at White House event
Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeye’s football team were honored at the White House for their 2024 national championship victory.
Let me try and understand this, because I’m a little fuzzy after decades of deceit and distrust.
It now appears that college football is headed toward the implementation of a commissioner, a czar of sorts who will control enforcement and whose rulings will be final.
Unless, of course, you want to head to arbitration.
A commissioner, or CEO or whatever you want to call him or her, whose office will control oversight of all things NIL and declare what deals are within fair-market range.
In a free-market economy.
A commissioner who, despite this brand new power and influence given to them by university presidents (see: fox, meet henhouse), will have zero – and when I say zero, I mean zero – control over player movement.
The most pressing problem for which there is no legal answer, short of players becoming employees and collectively bargaining.
A commissioner who will be paid a boatload of cash to do, in theory, what current NCAA president Charlie Baker should’ve been doing all along — if given the opportunity.
Apparently, a man who ran one of the largest state budgets as governor of Massachusetts needs another multimillion dollar salaried colleague to pull college sports from its self-induced mess.
I have no doubt this, too, will be a resounding success. That’s sarcasm, everyone.
Want to blame someone for this never-ending, unwieldy morass? Blame the eggheads at the very top of the food chain.
The same university presidents that have no business sticking their noses in the…
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