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CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson calls NCAA antitrust settlement a ‘sidestep’

A new era of college athletics is here, as Judge Claudia Wilken approved a multibillion-dollar legal deal, as schools can now pay athletes directly. CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson offers his thoughts on the settlement, Mike Elko’s program and much more. Key notes from Chip Patterson interview We aren’t moving in the wrong direction. We’ve changed the […]

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A new era of college athletics is here, as Judge Claudia Wilken approved a multibillion-dollar legal deal, as schools can now pay athletes directly. CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson offers his thoughts on the settlement, Mike Elko’s program and much more.


Key notes from Chip Patterson interview

  • We aren’t moving in the wrong direction. We’ve changed the game rules and created a new environment. When NIL was first approved, it was dumped onto the leadership of college sports with no guidance. With the school directly paying players… I don’t know if it’s a win or a loss. It’s a sidestep. We’ve created a new set of problems to solve.
     
  • Big picture, NIL didn’t address the way that schools are making so much off media rights payments. The students weren’t getting paid for the images that the players were being used in the media. The big picture doesn’t get down to the coaches and administrators who figure out how much goes to each player, coach and program. This is the “Is it gonna get passed? Is it not? Is it gonna get approved? Is it not?” Look, administrators put in the work so July 1, they are ready to go. I’m confident the sports world won’t collapse on July 1. There’s just a new set of challenges for the college sports world to solve.
     
  • The employment leads to contracts, which are hopefully tighter and standard. Public and private universities have an employee through a conference which allows them to sign deals. Maybe it doesn’t work within the conference with transfers. Can you buy out of the contract and receive compensation? Their problem is the players who go to seven different schools cashing out.
     
  • I like one portal window over two. I like the mid-January standpoint. You would’ve completed the postseason for most schools. You aren’t the first sports team to have a slow start. Let’s say after the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. I think it helps coaching and player commitment. You will still have players opt out of the playoffs and bowl games, I’m assuming. Every six months, there’s free agency. I think that’s unhealthy. I personally support the American Coaches Association’s options. It’s like, “Buddy, our problems are way bigger than the academic calendar.” For the sport as a whole, I don’t think it’s healthy to have a readjustment of contracts every six months.
     
  • I don’t think Bill Belichick enjoys the tabloid stuff. His juices get flowing around the football guys. He’s with this North Carolina roster, building a group that will put his coaching skills to the test. It comes from his old mentor, Bill Parcells. Talking about being able to coach football but not being able to teach size. Let’s get big guys that need to be coached up, which is fascinating. The NFL ran him out of the league. There’s morbid curiosity coming from the NFL. The people who revel in the chaos are the people in the NFL. One of the reasons it’s such a big focus of fascination comes from the NFL.
     
  • The one thing about last season at Texas A&M was the instability at quarterback. There has to be an assumption that you can take a step forward. That last game against Texas, where the biggest prizes were on the table. Texas could barely move the ball. Mike Elko got those boys charged up. The defense was playing lights out, and you just wished you could move the ball, but didn’t have enough healthy bodies.
     
  • I think culture is overused, but Elko is a culture plus by instilling things day-to-day and how he gets the guys fired up every day. Getting Marcel Reed a full offseason and reinforcing the wide receiver position, where you don’t have to do anything you didn’t do before. I think they need guys in the locker room to breed this confidence. They need someone to be able to finish and go forward by competing for spots in the playoffs. I think you can look at Elko like a defensive mastermind.
     
  • Elko may have years with great success and frustration. I think coming off that LSU win, you have to work on being ready. Duke always had a chip on their shoulder. A&M was riding real high, getting in the driver’s seat. It’s a good thing to have in the back of the mind, remembering the two bad losses.





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