Kristi Dosh
@SportsBizMiss
#SportsBiz for Forbes | Founder, Business of College Sports® | Adjunct Professor at @UF | Recovering atty | Author of The Athlete's NIL Playbook
The Athlete's NIL Playbook released a few weeks early yesterday! 🎉 I had fun going around NACDA convention and taking pictures with some of the experts who shared their knowledge for the book, including @sportsvisalaw, @adamjcook_, @sambgreen and @MLudwigUC.…
Working on a hands-on workshop Samira Jackson and I are doing next week for the Jr. NBA program on contracts and hiring representation. If you have followed me for long, you know I think the NCAA should be certifying agents to protect athletes from bad actors in this space. I'm…
Spending this week finishing up PowerPoint slides for each chapter of my book. I'll be sharing these, along with a suggested syllabus and assignments, with professors using The Athlete's NIL Playbook in their courses.
Almost exactly 20 years ago, I found out I got into my #1 choice for law school: @UFLaw. Now, I'm going back to teach this fall! I'll be teaching a compressed course on NIL this August. Can't wait!
Attorneys have resolved a dispute over how the College Sports Commission handles NIL collectives, sources tell @YahooSports, revising its approach to treat them like other businesses - a major move that paves the way for continued collective operations bit.ly/4kVo5od
As a reminder, these schools will operate under the scholarship limits from last year and will not have the new roster limits. If you need a refresher on roster limits and how those compare to scholarship limits: businessofcollegesports.com/other/new-rost…
310 D-I schools opted into sharing revenue with their athletes for 2025-26 (up to $20.5 million) 54 did not. Here they are sorted by conference 👇
NEW: The White House is actively working on an NIL-related executive order, a source familiar tells @FOS, confirming CBS report. It's unclear what the EO would entail, though it likely wouldn't conflict with ongoing Congressional legislative efforts. frontofficesports.com/president-trum…
NEW EPISODE In this week's podcast, I talk to @SportsLobbyist and @SportsBizMiss about all things NIL. Check it out: buff.ly/JDVQzDx
Always fun to run into old friends while out trying to sell my books. 😂 Had a lot of that this weekend in Columbus!
Great seeing @SportsBizMiss at the Columbus Ohio Book Fair this past weekend. She is a writing machine kicking out the NIL playbook and great novels under the pen name Savannah Carlisle.
Columbus friends, I'll be at the Barnes & Noble at Lennox Town Center tonight signing books!
In a letter sent to the NCAA and power conferences Friday, House attorneys believe the denial of NIL collective deals violate the settlement, are requesting a “retraction” of the CSC’s guidance & are threatening to report the wrongdoing to the court bit.ly/460PEsp
Sources: Quarterback Jake Retzlaff is withdrawing from school at BYU. He still plans on transferring and is expected to take a transfer path that does not involve the NCAA Transfer portal. He plans to simply enroll at a new school.
By the way, on Sept. 5, 2024, Judge Wilken said she was "quite concerned" about restricting payments from #NIL collectives and questioned why it would be OK for schools to pay athletes for play but not OK for collectives to do the same. This issue is so ripe for escalation.
I've made it to Columbus and am looking forward to these events this weekend!
Columbus friends, I'll be there this weekend for two signings on Saturday and Sunday evenings! Stop by, say hi and grab an autographed copy of The Athlete's NIL Playbook.
Coming to Columbus OH! This book is EXCELLENT & a MUST HAVE for any coach, parent or player wanting to better understand the complicated world of NIL & Revenue Sharing Go see @SportsBizMiss and tell her Don sent you 😉
Columbus friends, I'll be there this weekend for two signings on Saturday and Sunday evenings! Stop by, say hi and grab an autographed copy of The Athlete's NIL Playbook.
Good time to point out Footnote 10 in Judge Wilken's approval of the House settlement. The question of whether the CSC's new rules violate the Sherman Act was not determined by the Court. The restrictions on athlete #NIL compensation from collectives can and will be litigated.
Same thing on the third-party NIL provisions -- it's unclear whether it violates antitrust law, but there isn't enough info and that's fine for settlement purposes. But she's again clear that she's not ruling on whether or not they actually do violate antitrust law.
Checks notes...yes.
So, is it not OK for the Alabama collective to pay an athlete to do appearances that benefit the collective and have a charitable/public good purpose, but it's OK for the Alabama collective to pay the athlete to appear in a commercial for Nick Saban's car dealership?
Statement from a collective operator to @FOS about the new guidance: "Since the beginning of the NIL era, the NCAA, conference commissioners, and athletic directors have resisted every form of progress when it comes to fairly compensating athletes. Now, a newly formed…
This new guidance basically says that collective deals where players are paid to appear at events run by the collective or promote items created by the collective (like merchandise) are no longer allowed.
Columbus friends, I'll be there this weekend for two signings on Saturday and Sunday evenings! Stop by, say hi and grab an autographed copy of The Athlete's NIL Playbook.
Here's the language from the College Sports Commission today that is going to mean a lot of collective deals getting denied by the NILGo clearinghouse.
