have you read the court proceedings ?? the judge in the settlement has massive doubts the any NIL restriction is legal .. (she also doubt the rev share cap would hold up in court and i doubt it would as well) ...
and the confs themselves don't think it the settlement works going forward...
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a company that wants to pay an athlete is not party to the settlement ... and the athlete is only kind of party to the settlement (it was mostly about past NIL pay) ..
the judge that approved the settlement said on record in court and it here acceptance order that she had doubt...
this is not what we are talking about ... if 2 people both bid 700k that is the value of the house on the market .. at that time ... because that is what you would have to pay to buy it ..
and none of that range will hold up .... just like if me and you want to buy the same house for cash and bid against eachother .. we can pay 10x the appraisal if we want to and that is not blocked in court .. it would just be the value of the house in the market ..
the collective doesn't have to sell them right away .. or really ever how they run their business is not part of the review .. (they could hold them for some future sale ) ..
and again .. if i want to pay an ou player 100k come to speak at a conf for my company and it get rejected my...
right .... like sign a football john mateer for 500 bucks .. or promotion which is a "valid" purpose ..
and if you can do that once you can do that 1000 times ... (remember there is NO follow on on these deals and it is not the business of the approval authority to audit any of...
all of that is old info .. the plaintiff attorneys said that went against the settlement and were going to go back to the judge or sue .
and they reached an agreement .. and collectives became good to go once again ...
collective payments are a go again already (and already pretty big .. outside NIL is 100% still a thing)
... and there will soon be a lawsuit on limiting the amount of those in any way ..
that is not the issue .. the issue is they have to take back 50+ million dollars in salary .. and they don't want any money on the books so they can be a FA player next summer and in the summer of 27 ..
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