Florida approves NIL for high school athletes

[hondo]

Why stop there!?! Let the middle schoolers and elementary schoolers get some of that sweet, sweet NIL money!

If the market dictates, why not?

 

[HanSenSE]

To say nothing of public school coaches bitching in person.

"Why yes, I'm sure if I drove over 200 miles to Jacksonville and confronted the coach at The Bolles School they'd confess to everything. I'll hop right on that."

First job I had in the business was in a city adjacent to a now-closed Air Force base. The wierd comments I'd hear from parents and boosters of opposing teams "Hey, they got kids from North Carolina on here. And Germany ... but just dependents, right?"

 

[WriteThinking]

Examples of Florida residents who have earned money as minors in sports or entertainment:
Caleb Dressel
Jennifer Capriati
Justin Timberlake
Christine Aguilara
Brittany Spears
Erriyon Knighton
Ariana Grande

We could go on. And there's no difference between those examples and a high school football player in Orlando or Jacksonville earning a little jack.

I see a difference between high school-aged people working on their games/talents on professional tours and in professional businesses, where everyone is routinely and rightly paid, and those actually attending high school, where no one, typically, is or should be paid. No one is coercing Ffrench into playing high school football. He is doing so, presumably, because he enjoys playing, and because, in doing so, he is, basically, auditioning for the college/pro levels, which he will reach in due time. Or earlier, if he finds a vehicle through which to do it. Which, I guess he has.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Granted, it's DeSantistan. But considering there's a possibility that college athletes are going to be considered employees, could high school athletes also be considered employees if they're getting paid? And if so, could that create issues with child labor laws?

Again, we're talking Florida here. But it's something that could come up as an issue.

 

[hondo]

Granted, it's DeSantistan. But considering there's a possibility that college athletes are going to be considered employees, could high school athletes also be considered employees if they're getting paid? And if so, could that create issues with child labor laws?

Again, we're talking Florida here. But it's something that could come up as an issue.

That's why in Florida kids under 18 will need to have their parents sign off on any NIL contracts.

 

[kickoff-time]

Almost 75 percent of states allow some type of NIL for high school athletes, probably will be 100 percent by the end of the decade.


https://www.on3.com/nil/news/where-...-high-school-athletes-hs-football-basketball/

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That's why in Florida kids under 18 will need to have their parents sign off on any NIL contracts.

Somewhere, Marv Marinovich and Jim Pierce are nodding their heads.

 

[goalmouth]

Almost 75 percent of states allow some type of NIL for high school athletes, probably will be 100 percent by the end of the decade.


https://www.on3.com/nil/news/where-...-high-school-athletes-hs-football-basketball/

Fifteen years ago, a high school I covered tried to sell a sponsorship for its football lockerroom but ran afoul of public district rules.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Granted, it's DeSantistan. But considering there's a possibility that college athletes are going to be considered employees, could high school athletes also be considered employees if they're getting paid? And if so, could that create issues with child labor laws?

Again, we're talking Florida here. But it's something that could come up as an issue.

Paid by whom? That's the question. It's one thing to say the state can't prohibit HS athletes from getting $$$ from businesses. It's another for the state/school district to provide the payments.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Paid by whom? That's the question. It's one thing to say the state can't prohibit HS athletes from getting $$$ from businesses. It's another for the state/school district to provide the payments.

That's kinda what I'm getting at. What if a high school athlete is considered an employee, either from the school or the local sponsor. Could a 13-year-old prodigy be considered a worker?

 

[HanSenSE]

That's kinda what I'm getting at. What if a high school athlete is considered an employee, either from the school or the local sponsor. Could a 13-year-old prodigy be considered a worker?

And just to further complicate things, would that make them subject to child labor laws?

 

[tapintoamerica]

And just to further complicate things, would that make them subject to child labor laws?

The most important people affiliated with college and HS sports are going to be lawyers. Maybe lawyers have always been the most important people affiliated with college and HS sports. But going forward, we can be pretty sure they are.