According to Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger, the Power 5 commissioners wrote to Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), imploring Congress to make booster "payments inaccurately labeled as NIL" illegal. The letter lists six pillars the commissioners deem vital to establishing a "fair and enforceable federal framework for NIL."...

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"Problems have emerged where it appears boosters are inducing high school and potential transfer student-athletes to attend their favored universities with payments inaccurately labeled as NIL licenses, with no connection to the value of any endorsement or NIL activity,” the letter reads. "This kind of inducement was not what anyone had in mind when NIL was created, and federal legislation sponsored by members of both parties sought to prohibit the use of NIL as a recruiting inducement."

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6R12•25 months

Those idiots let the cat out of the bag before they could rein it in

chinhoyang•25 months

Most federal regulations create more problems.

lsusteve1•25 months

Should have set this before opening the flood gates, IMO

Bayoubred•25 months

Uhmmm that would be unconstitutional...

Dingeaux•25 months

who is going to investigate and enforce this? i thought they wanted to get out of the NCAA. Will the new Power 5/Playoff league have their own enforcement division?

Galactic Inquisitor•25 months

I can't wait to see how triggered Jimbo Fisher is about this.

TygerDurden•25 months

Absolutely no thought given to these things when they set up this while NIL system. Incompetence is astounding.

BHMadden•25 months

I think they thought about it. They just stopped immediately because it hurt their little heads :(

CanebreakCajun•25 months

Just what we need, politicians involved.

Black n Gold•25 months

I may be wrong, but this seems like more of a NCAA issue, not a congressional issue.

Mickey Goldmill•25 months

Schools & the NCAA want Congress to do something so everything is uniform and everyone has the same rules.

ALhunter•25 months

It can only be done via the federal gov. at this point. NCAA fought tooth and nail on name and likeness and lost in court. If a state acts alone, that state's schools will be at a huge disadvantage.

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