re: BayouTraditions and similar NIL “collectives” are offensive.

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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.

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The person who already replied to you pretty much covered what I was about to say about revenue sharing. As he said, that would really go nowhere once you spread it out to all of the athletes. That's why socialism always fails. The bottom line is that nobody forces these kids to play sports. If they feel they are slave laborers, they can go find something else to do. The college model falls apart when you treat the players like professionals. Not everyone can afford to play by the same rules, and that leaves a lot of programs in the dust, which in turn decreases opportunities for a lot of kids to play sports, in the long run. The trickle down effect will be felt by smaller schools, if it isn't happening already.

Is that any more fair than what we had before NIL? I think sometimes it's better to just leave things alone.