I honestly don't know what framework was going to prevent this. Once they opened the door to this, it was going to come to this point, sooner or later. Once you tell kids that they can profit off of their NIL, how long do you get away with telling them how much they can profit, and in what ways, when players' names, images, and likenesses are being used in all of these things? The very terminology of NIL means there is practically nothing they can't make money on, if they just stick their names or faces on it. This was inevitable as soon as they gave in, or were forced, or whatever anyone wants to say.

Whether we blame the courts, the NCAA, or both, the fact is that people didn't think it through when they decided on allowing any of this, at all.

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Posted by geauxtigers33

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Posted on 2/1/23 at 8:24 am to Metaloctopus

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I honestly don't know what framework was going to prevent this. Once they opened the door to this, it was going to come to this point, sooner or later. Once you tell kids that they can profit off of their NIL, how long do you get away with telling them how much they can profit

Figuring out a revenue sharing model with the student athletes before the courts mandated you to allow them to make money off of their NIL I think could have been a happy medium.

You right it very well may still end up where we are but if you are just giving them some of the millions the NCAA was making off of basically free labor (scholarships and other perks for the student-athletes are paid by the school not the NCAA) people may have been willing to work with the NCAA. It was the whole “amateurism” schtick they kept wanting to throw out there to keep all the money.

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