NCAA president Charlie Baker candidly addressed some of the biggest issues facing college sports Monday. Among those topics, Baker said he believes most college athletes do not want to become employees of their school, league or the NCAA.
“Legislative and political debates are wildly unpredictable,” Baker said. “NIL creates the opportunity for a bipartisan — and what I would describe as sort of policy-based — solution, and that’s clearly what I’ve been hearing from most of the folks I talked to in Congress so far.
“The challenge we face is, how do we deal with the fact that we’re gonna have certain states that are basically going to say what the NCAA thinks doesn’t matter?” Baker said. “That does make, in some respects, the idea of creating additional framework through federal legislation stronger than it would be otherwise. Because we have evidence it’s going to be hard to do this on a voluntary basis.
The Title IX topic has been discussed many times since NIL was implemented. Because NIL operates in a free market outside of universities, it doesn’t fall under Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in programs that receive public funding. But what does that mean when schools officially affiliate with a collective?
“The Office for Civil Rights would say, right now, that if a a collective is affiliated — and there will be a discussion on what that means — then they need to be spending as much money on women’s sports as they spend on a men’s sports and as much money on on women athletes as they spent on men athletes,” Baker said.
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