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A bill introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates would prohibit the NCAA from investigating athletes for NIL activities. With the House v. NCAA settlement set to establish an NIL clearinghouse that requires all third-party NIL deals of $600 or more must be approved by a clearinghouse that will vet contracts, the legislation could provide protections to West Virginia athletes if approved.
The five-page bill introduced this week would also allow insitititiouns to provide NIL dollars and share revenue and prohibit athletes from engaging in specific NIL deals, including alcohol, drugs, tobacco and gambling.
The bill also states that "nothing in this article shall be construed to qualify a student-athlete as an employee of an institution because the student-athlete engages in name, image, or likeness opportunities." The NCAA has pressed Congress to rule that athletes are not employees in an ongoing battle to ensure athletes are not classified as employees.
West Virginia becomes the latest state to introduce legislation that pushes back against the NCAA. Institutions across the country are operating under a patchwork of state laws. Lawmakers in Missouri and Texas have passed bills in recent years to prevent the NCAA from launching investigations into NIL activities. Missouri's NIL law even allows high school recruits to enter into NIL deals and start earning endorsement money as soon as they sign with in-state colleges.
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NCAA president Charlie Baker and multiple Power Four commissioners have repeatedly visited Capitol Hill in the last 18 months, lobbying lawmakers for a federal NIL bill that would include a state preemption to override the patchwork of state NIL laws.
The NCAA halted all investigations involving third-party NIL collectives last March. That has continued, but with the House v. NCAA settlement, the Power Four conferences are creating a new enforcement arm to police violations of the rev-sharing cap. It's expected this new enforcement entity will create a penalty structure for violators, too.
"No institution, athletic association, athletic conference, or other organization with authority over intercollegiate athletics may: open an investigation, penalize, suspend, take other adverse action, or declare a student-athlete ineligible from intercollegiate athletic competition," the bill states.
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NEW ORLEANS — The SEC is talking about "re-imagining" its football championship weekend into a series of play-in games to the College Football Playoff. That includes the somewhat radical possibility of the eighth-place team getting a chance to earn a bid by knocking out the top seed.
The idea of play-in games has been floated since last fall, as part of a proposal where the SEC and Big Ten would get four guaranteed bids to an expanded 14-team Playoff field. The most-discussed proposal has been to have the two top seeds meet in the SEC Championship Game as usual, both teams ensured a Playoff bid but playing for a bye, and two play-in games, matching the No. 3 and No. 6 seeds and No. 4 and No. 5 seeds.
But the SEC has discussed a more radical idea: four play-in games, matching No. 1 and No. 8, No. 4 and No. 5, No. 2 and No. 7 and No. 3 and No. 6.
"It's one of the ideas on the table," Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin said Wednesday as he left New Orleans, where SEC and Big Ten athletic directors met to discuss several issues.
This isn't the only idea, and there doesn't yet appear a consensus. But it shows how far the conference is going to rethink championship weekend.
"We'll see what happens," Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said when asked if that format was in play.
The Big Ten's discussion has swirled around the top two teams playing for a championship, while No. 3 would face No. 6 and No. 4 would play No. 5 in CFP play-in games. Nothing is finalized, but there's potential for the games to take place on campuses or even all three in two days at one venue.
"One of the things that we're going to continue to prioritize is trying to find ways to make our regular season as exciting as we possibly can," Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman said. "How can we keep as many fan bases engaged into November? How can we create meaningful football games in November? So, any ideas that strike at that are things that are going to be worth having conversations about."
Whitman's Illinois team would have entered that discussion last year. The Illini finished 9-3 in the regular season and tied for fifth alongside Iowa in the Big Ten standings. Illinois would have faced Ohio State in a game pitting No. 4 vs. No. 5 with an opportunity to qualify for a CFP spot. Indiana would have played Iowa for another CFP berth. A play-in loser would then contend for an at-large spot outside of the guaranteed allotment.
The value of conference championship games has taken a hit in the expanded CFP era. All five conference champions who made the field lost their first game, including the top four seeds who had byes: Oregon, Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State.
But the SEC will be reluctant to just do away with its championship game. It was the first conference to create one, in 1992, and it has become very lucrative. This past year's game, when Georgia beat Texas in overtime, drew the highest ratings for any non-Playoff college football game last season.
Still, the notion of a play-in weekend has gained steam, especially with the chance for the extra games to bring in more revenue. The Big Ten floated the idea first, and while the SEC has been slower to get on board, many in the league now believe some sort of change is coming.
"The conversations were really creative and innovative and robust and ended up with several suggestions that we could provide our leadership, our commissioners, as they go forward with a couple of key meetings in the next couple weeks," Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said.
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