re: Boosters in the NIL era

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How is A&M (boosters) signing recruits to multi-year deals that are void if the recruit transfers without violating this law?

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Your guess is as good as mine.

It’s probably either:
A) The reports are vastly over exaggerated.
B) A&M boosters are betting that the state isn’t going down the political rabbit hole of enforcement given the quagmire that is UT/A&M politics. Remember, there are NIL shenanigans at Texas as well.
C) Some combination of A and B.

That said, it’s not just state enforcement they have to worry about - it’s also the NCAA, who is (supposedly) holding schools to whatever the laws are in their states. But they could also be banking on the NCAA just slapping people on the wrist since there is so much ambiguity.

The “no arrangements prior to enrollment” thing is the one that gets me. It seems like it would be pretty easy for the boosters to get burned on that front.