re: Urban Meyer believes NIL in college football has evolved into cheating

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It’s almost like anyone with sense knew what it would turn into and that’s the entire reason the NCAA never wanted to go down that slippery slope.

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The NCAA didn’t want to go down that route because they didn’t want anyone asking how anything about their entire set up was ever legal in the first place

They could’ve done a bunch of things to get ahead of this and work torwards a working model before everything came to a head in the courts. Instead they were content to pretend like it wasn’t happening and sit on their hands and collect the cash as long as it is funneling to them

And again the “slippery slope” is a portal thing, not NIL. NIL would be hardly talked about outside the off-season if there were any controls on player movement left. But because the NCAA refused to ever budge, it left it to the courts to blow it all up and put us in this reactive spot for the sport. But the NCAA knew once this day came, either way their time in the sun was over, so they are happy to collect that bag as long as it’s there