Met a guy tonight that was the kicker in the Marshall teams with Pennington and Marsh.
He had a good idea. Team that signs a freshman owns his rights. Those rights are separate from what the kid is getting paid. Very euro football model. So we sign a kids, we own his rights. He blows up his freshman year and South Carolina wants him, they have negotiate with us. Not a standard buy out, a negotiated payment to buy the rights they can discuss contract after. Decent way to feed money into lower brands while allowing movement. Theoretically bringing the potential to remove students fees.
I suspect the Marshall guy is pretty close to what will happen, which is that NCAA will eventually recognize athletes as employees - either voluntarily or by the courts. Then contracts get negotiated and signed.
Right but this would be beyond the contracts to players. It would be making buying rights the standard.
Like a freshman signs with us. We have his rights for 4/5 years. He blows up and say Clemson wants him. They have to negotiate an updated contract yes but they have to buy the rights from us which is now based on this players new market value. Then player blows up even more and bama wants him they have to buy him from Clemson.
Would be a great way to help schools like us profit from developing a player for a larger program.
