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

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The very thought of that is absurd. If it ever got to that point it would be ballgame over for the whole shooting match, there are so many problems I don’t even know where to begin.

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The conference commissioners and university presidents don’t think of any of this the same way we do. All of the moves they have made over the last 30 years show that. It’s all been about the accumulation of money and power.

As for attending class, most athletes in the major sports are barely a part of the university anymore as it is. They get tons of tutoring and assistance out of the football facility and academic center. Many of them do a lot of course work remotely and hardly have to attend classes in-person like most students.

Like I said, I don’t think this will happen. The point I was making initially is that NIL is the evil we are all going to have to live with from now on because both of the alternatives to either change or get around Title 9 are difficult and the outcomes would suck a lot worse than what we have today.

The only other things that can be done under current laws that would have any real impact would be changes to the transfer rules, a federal law making NIL implementation uniform across the country, and legislation that limits how collectives can operate and forces them to operate transparently. None of those really stop pay for play, but they would add a little more sanity to the current setup.