A groundbreaking NIL law was signed on Thursday in Virginia that could significantly impact the future of college athletics.
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VA passed a bill banning the NCAA for punishing schools while directly pay NIL deals, eliminating the separate collectives that have been created. How many states follow suit? Does the NCAA sue?
That's a state law, not a federal law, thus it only has effect, in that state, and does not affect other states, colleges, NCAA.
NCAA is a national, federal governing body, that can punish, run things how they like it. If they decide to punish VA schools, VA can't enforce a state law to something that is a national, federal rule in all the other states.
They VA can take NCAA to a federal court, and try to enforce it that way, but outside of that there is no way that VA can enforce the law on NCAA, and the NCAA can just ignore the VA state law.
If that happens, the only thing VA can do, is either try to sue NCAA in federal court, and probably lose to NCAA lawyers, or withdraw VA colleges from NCAA to punish NCAA, but that would hurt VA more then hurt NCAA if at all.
Also the NCAA could say, do "Fine you want colleges to be able to pay student athletes directly in VA, well fine, you can do that outside of the NCAA, and the NCAA, is kicking the entire state of VA, and all their colleges outside the NCAA, and then you can have the VA colleges pay NIL directly to student athletes, all you want. If your not going to follow, obey the NCAA rules, or if you are going to try to pass state laws to try to bypass national, federal NCAA rules, then you can just be kicked out of the NCAA collective, etc, which means NO NCAA basketball, NIT basketball, tournaments, NCAA CFP, access for you, and you can schedule your own schedule, and come up with your own bball tourney, CFP, etc"
Yeah sure, other states could follow suit, and yes, Charlie Baker proposed that schools be able to pay student athletes, and yes Colleges could vote for a NCAA rule that lets colleges pay student athletes NIL directly.
But what VA is doing directly wrongly goes against the NCAA national rules, that all colleges, have votes in the process of making NCAA rules.
What's next, Wyoming passing a state law that Wyoming colleges have to automatically get 1 of the 12 CFP playoff spots.
It's ridiculous, it's absurd, and either won't fly or will or should get shut down.
