Can non scholarship athletes get an NIL deal

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Yes. There was a baseball player that voluntarily gave up his scholarship since he was getting some NIL money.

What you may be forgetting is you don’t pay taxes on scholarship money. You do on NIL money so the deal would have to be enough to where it’s more than a scholarship after taxes.

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Can non scholarship athletes get an NIL deal

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This may be a dumb question,

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You are correct

Some kids are even rejecting the scholarships bc the NIL is so big they can let someone else have the scholarship

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This was said in a joking manner

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I guess I’m missing the joke. Here is a snippet from an article in The Advocate earlier this year:

LSU has already benefited in a big way.

"I had one prominent player on our team made some money in terms of name, image and likeness, and his dad called me and said, 'Coach, I know you're trying to put together a roster. We're going to give you back the scholarship for this year,’ ” Johnson said.

"I don't think the NCAA really understood what they were doing with this and it's going to cause some issues, but no matter what it's been — the transfer portal, NIL — my job is, I can I can either cry about it or I can figure out how we need to do it to do well for us."

Johnson did not name the athlete who's family who gave back his scholarship, but moves like these could have a deep impact on powerhouse baseball programs with prominent players, like LSU.

Didn’t Parker Edwards get one from walkons?

I think technically he was on scholarship this season but ykwim

Saw on the news that the cheerleader who stood on her teammate's shoulders to retrieve a stuck ball got NIL deal. Can't remember who was playing. Anything is possible.

Any person with a pulse can get an NIL deal if they are marketable. The problem was that the NCAA previously prohibited student athletes from doing it.

NIL really has nothing to do with the NCAA. It was a court decision. Basically the athletes own the rights to their name image and likeness and could profit from deals using those and the NCAA could not prohibit it.