More on the NIL

We shouldn't be shocked.

If you've been following anything going on in college sports recently or anything that I've been sharing on social media this will come as no surprise. Or even if you saw it coming over a year ago when NIL became a thing. It brings a lot of positive things for sure, but it carries a TON of issues, many people said it would. I shared THIS post on Instagram a week or so ago. It stated that the "base" salary for a P5 football athlete was now $50k.

Several references in the above article and the one I will mention below, are to a Supreme Court case. I talked about this HERE.

The most recent article is talking about how the NCAA is going to start cracking down on these "booster coalitions" that been forming up across the country. Basically, you've got boosters pooling their money together in order to pay and recruit the best football athletes in the country. Obviously the NCAA doesn't want this kind of thing to happen, but in reality I'm not sure there is a ton that will be done about it going forward. Possibly there will be crackdowns, but I'm not convinced.

You can read the article HERE and check out my thoughts below.

"Any booster or booster-led collective that has been found to have associated with a prospect about recruiting—on another college team or in high school—will be found to have violated NCAA rules, and the booster’s school is at risk of sanctions"

Plenty of offers have been made to athletes over Twitter in the last few months alone. I wonder how many of them, if at all, have been deleted. This is especially true for athletes that are in the transfer portal.

"NCAA enforcement has been unwilling and maybe even unable to enforce existing bylaws, George and Smith say. For one, the organization is concerned any enforcement will trigger a bevy of antitrust legal challenges."

This is going to be a huge issue for the NCAA going forward. At this point it's unclear if they can even enforce their own rules. If they can't enforce the NIL rules/guidelines they've put out there, then it's safe to say they will find other ways to stay relevant and ping schools for other things.

"NCAA sanctions are not expected to be directed at player eligibility but will instead sanction schools in other ways for not controlling their boosters, working group members said."

So what's the real threat to the athlete for violations? If there isn't any, what's the real deterrent here? If you sanction the school, is it going to make the booster's stop what they're doing? Probably not.

I honestly don't expect things surrounding the NIL to get "better" anytime soon.

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