re: Let's unpack the NIL problem shall we?

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark.

All about providing some stipend for the millions they generate, but NOT what it has become. The current model is NOT sustainable and has ruined CFB as it directly contributes to the massive numbers in the portal and this renegotiating NIL deals BS. They opened up Pandora's Box and now it will be very difficult to reign it back in....

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Good post.

At some point the golden egg laying goose is going to be on life support and people are going to be asking where the miracle cure is. It will probably be too late then.

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark.

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Sounds good....won't work.

If I'm a wealthy business owner who loves LSU and wants to pay the star QB $2.0M...if he chooses to play for LSU...an outside entity, SEC, NCAA, LSU, etc can't prohibit that. It's an anti-trust violation. The player "owns" his NIL. And he can sell/lease it for any amount.

The only way it could possible work is if the player agreed to assign his NIL rights to the school. But what player would do that when he could make significantly more on the free market?

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From day one NIL should have been a stipend determined by year (FR, SOPH, JR, SR) and have an annual built in escalator for COLA. The university ADs and NCAA could have figured it out. The FR at LSU or Bama would get the same as the FR at Vandy or Ark

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What you explained is not NIL, nor does it solve anything.

The NCAA could adapt a pay for play strategy, where schools are getting involved in the payment of players directly, with rules in place (kind of like a salary cap). This brings in another set of problems though, bc now title 9 comes into play. If you are paying out 5 mil to mens sports, you'll have to pay out 5 mil to women's sports as well.

It also doesn't solve the problem of NIL. NIL is legal, and the court system says so, regardless of what the NCAA says. So you can put in that pay for play, but certain teams will still be able to get around it by players getting NIL deals for players.