John Donna Choi

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Sincerely sorry for the loss of service. For the first time in the 15 years of me working on this site, I had to literally turn it off. I've got a different site every week getting slammed with AI Agents training on data. @Will Stewart is going to make a post later about it ** Edited by John Donna Choi at 6/7/2025, 6:29:58 PM

Doing everything I can to smooth it out. Hopefully it's good now

Doesn't really have the authority to determine if an athlete is or is not an "employee". That's under the jurisdiction of the IRS. Sections 98-110 do mention that this doesn't mean that they are "employees" under this law. That isn't quite how it works. It would not surprise me if that part gets challenged in coming years, because if the school is pressuring the athletes to do an NIL contract, and how to do the NIL contract, they could get reclassified as employees. The main reason this is an important distinction, is that the athletes are responsible for the 15% self employment taxes, but if the schools are found to be in violation of IRS regulations, they would be forced to pay all of the social security/medicare backtaxes(half of the 15%). And pay minimum wage. It'll be very important for the schools, coaching staff, and everyone else involved to be careful not to cross the line between contractor and employee

school, as in the school collects payment for them. This would classify them as contractors and would be a 1099. Not a lawyer or accountant, but my job as CEO/CTO of medium orgs is to work this sort of thing out. I'm required by law to make sure we comply with everything below. Key difference between contractors and employees as per IRS rules is that a resource is required to be an "employee" if they are told when, how, and what work to perform. This obviously creates grey area, since the school does do a few of those things, but as long as they arent paid to be students, or to be athletes, and it's for NIL compensation only it should not qualify. In the case of a school doing a bigger deal(such as with EA Games for collegiate football games), each athlete would be a "sub contractor". This allows the school to negotiate on their behalf. This would again be a bit of grey area, because the school can't "force" athletes to do the NIL here.... but obviously there is a lot of pressure on the athletes EA was forced to stop producing the 2014 football games due to no NIL rules in place. They lost some court cases. But looks like they are looking to do it again ** Edited by John Donna Choi at 4/4/2024, 10:08:57 AM

Hi all, North Carolina just legalized sports book sites in the state and we've been contacted by a few "affiliate" marketing folks to see if we want to run a promotion on this site. I think it's something like a bonus for TSL for each person that signs up using our code. Is there interest in us providing a code and partnering with one of these sites? It's quite a lot of bookkeeping/admin work for us to set it up, so we'd only go through it if enough folks wanted to utilize it. Thoughts? Thanks again for being part of our community :)

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