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What Would a One-Transfer Rule Do to Athlete Contracts? (opens the original)
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The year is 2027. Great golly, they did it: the NCAA got a federal law passed.Suddenly, athletes are restricted to only one penalty-free transfer. It feels like 2021 all over again. What a simple time.But this is not 2021. Athletes are no longer receiving petty compensation for filming a TikTok for a local sandwich chain, negotiated through an NIL collective. They have agents, they demand six- and seven-figure annual compensation, and they negotiate against increasingly sophisticated college fro
College Sports Needs a Price for Exit (opens the original)
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Hello everyone. I hope the summer has treated you well. I’ve been away for a bit, half writer’s block, half spending my energy trying to find optimal strategies now that redshirts have been wiped off the face of the Earth. Both have been a grind, and I have yet to find the epiphanies I’m searching for.What I have been doing, a bit in the background, is drafting more academic writing. It’s much less fun than posting non-peer-reviewed articles about my college hoops insights without a dozen footno
Emergency Wisne v. NCAA Post (opens the original)
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Yesterday, in Wisne v. NCAA, every Division I athlete who began competing during the 2022–23 academic year and exhausted their eligibility last season received another year of competition. This outcome was entirely foreseeable, and several programs already have been treating it this way.The athletes received that relief through a preliminary injunction. To obtain a preliminary injunction, plaintiffs generally must establish two things: a likelihood of success on the merits and irreparable harm.
Negotiating in Hell: Staying Disciplined in a Market Built on Panic (opens the original)
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The staggering eight-figure payrolls now commonplace in college basketball are real. They are also, in many respects, a product of incentive structures unique to the modern collegiate marketplace. Despite all the handwringing in Indianapolis and Capitol Hill, I see no future in which the flow of money to players meaningfully slows. I do, however, see a future in which disciplined programs can consistently win more with less.Over the past month, I’ve spoken with coaches, general managers, and age
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