Of course, poor draftsmanship and subtle misstatements happen at many times, even within an association of highly trained lawyers. But, when it comes to the NCAA’s battle against granting college athletes full control over their name, image, and likeness rights, these little slips of the pen seem to be happening more commonly than one would naturally expect — especially when those close to the NCAA sit on an association’s board or are the primary authors or quoted sources of an article.
While this small, arguable snafu by a Sports Lawyers Association press release is probably not too relevant when looked at in a vacuum, the use of subtle twists of phrases intended to give a dubious, negative inference about granting college athletes more economic rights is happening all over the place where NCAA advocates are involved.
While I can point to a number of other examples where subtle tilts of verbiage are intended by NCAA advocates to cast the college athletes rights movement in a dubious and subtly negative light, another example that hits very close to home involves an article published on FORBES back in January by a fellow contributor, entitled “.
Indeed, there is no good faith argument that granting college athletes rights over their names, images or likenesses would be thecause to any Title IX violation, despite the intended inference by certain NCAA advocates to the contrary.
If one wishes to be earnest about this undeniably sensitive topic, anyone writing about the Fair Pay to Play movement, irrespective of viewpoint, needs to concede at least a few, undeniable points. First, some female athletes are very strong supporters of the movement to grant college athletes NIL rights. Specifically, former Stanford University women’s volleyball player
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