Power 5 Commissioners Want Recruiting 'Loophole' To Be Illegal

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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(The Spun)