Colorado gets Liability insurance for all players for bowl game, no one skipped

[glassmanJ]

no 2 deep player is skipping the bowl. they bought highest amount of coverage ever for sanders and hunter. but made sure any player getting injured was taken care of. what a concept.

Buffs add record insurance coverage for star duo

Colorado secured what it said was record insurance coverage for Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter as the star duo opted to play in the Alamo Bowl.

www.espn.com

 

[2330859]

This makes sense and expect that it will be a precedent-setting initiative for a lot of schools to follow. However, the cost will be passed on to the season ticket holders. Looks like wealthy alumni at schools like Colorado, IU, and Vanderbilt have decided to do whatever possible to move out of their respective conference cellars.

 

[glassmanJ]

This makes sense and expect that it will be a precedent-setting initiative for a lot of schools to follow. However, the cost will be passed on to the season ticket holders. Looks like wealthy alumni at schools like Colorado, IU, and Vanderbilt have decided to do whatever possible to move out of their respective conference cellars.

that's the greatest thing about what's happening because of NIL, you can go from the basement to penthouse in one year if you make the correct NIL decisions. conversely, like FSU, you can get the portal wrong and drop like a rock. but either way, every single school in the country now has a chance to build a team in any sport to compete to be in the final 8. some schools probably will never get to title game, but i'm sure the final four is good enough for many who've never had a chance to go.
there are billionaires in every state and most have alma maters. look at what byu is doing and indiana is forking over $4million for Cal's qb. and guess what, we've been in the cellar in bball for a few years and our money is trying to bring us back so don't knock other schools when we are int eh same boat. pretty sure bringing jb back to coach football was all about money men in town trying to get us into final 4. so not just Colorado, IU and Vandy, it's Louisville too.

 

[beantowncard]

Don’t players have insurance anyway?

 

[Pervis_Griffith]

Don’t players have insurance anyway?

Probably not liability for injury during practices or games. For the overwhelming majority of players this wouldn't be practical.

Health insurance I am pretty certain they all have. But that only "fixes" you. Doesn't offer any kind of disability, or worker's comp that would pay you while you recovered.

 

[2330859]

Typical of most Universities, they are woefully ill-prepared in planning their responses to events affecting their respective institutions. Their collective conferences are not much better, and evidenced by the performance within the NCAA, when commissioned to manage their organization as a whole ……. there is total incompetence.

When the Supreme Court was hearing the athletes case against the NCAA schools, there was virtually zero preparation for what most predicted as the decision favoring the athletes and the creation of NIL. There are no rules, no limitations and very little control with the consequences that are already causing havoc within college sports.

If the colleges and University Leadership would have addressed this issue early and effectively, they could have established guidelines that were both equitable and sustainable, for example they could have contractural language where the student athlete would be confined to reasonable compensation, required participation in Bowl games and remaining at the school over a specific time period. Non-skill positions (OL men) could be rewarded with some relative value to the skill positions (QB, WR, RB) kids.

The Administration of these schools did very little if any advanced planning, resulting in the chaos that we see within the system.