How does Bayou Tradidtions structure NIL contracts?

Wonder when non compete language starts making its way into these deals

By NCAA rules and LA law, there is no language they could put into an NIL contract that would tie payment to playing for LSU or any other performance metrics. It would be madness to give players anything beyond a one-year contract since there’s absolutely nothing they can do to stop players from transferring. They can’t be paying out money to players who leave.

everything surely is on a year to year basis.

I mean, fricking starters at major programs are transferring. There's nearly 60 players in the portal, just from the college play off teams alone.... that's wild.

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But what are donors to these collectives officially giving money for?

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A business owner could in theory pay an athlete directly or they could donate a shite ton of money to the collective and have LSU handle the payment through that. Or they could say "look, I donate a shite ton of money to Bayou Traditions already and I want this recruit to get $2 million to come here but I'm not paying more than $500k more than I've already given. Can you take the remainder from Bayou Traditions to pay him?"


I think that's how it works.

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The endorsements cannot be centered around playing. This is part of the reason it’s such a joke. Technically, if a guy wanted to come in and take a $500K NIL deal, he could refuse to play and would still be entitled to the money so long as he satisfied the requirements of the contract (appearances, x messages, etc). It’s a complete farce.

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These usually aren't lump sum agreements. They may have options after a certain amount of months to automatically renew unless one of the parties expressly chooses to cancel it. I can't imagine these are fully guaranteed deals.

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These usually aren't lump sum agreements. They may have options after a certain amount of months to automatically renew unless one of the parties expressly chooses to cancel it. I can't imagine these are fully guaranteed deals.

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I think a business could tie the NIL deal to an athlete staying at LSU, staying on the team and he could pay him or her monthly.

Take Canes. If they hired athletes yo do commercials and represent Canes the contract could certainly make it part of the agreement that they stayed on the team.

Yeah I don't think there would be any issue with that at all.

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NCAA rules and LA law actually expressly forbid doing that.

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Really?

I read that they presented Underwood with a two year contract but that was an unusual situation.

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Really?

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Yes. We all know that NIL quickly morphed into pay to play, but by the letter of the rules and LA law it is not allowed to be pay to play. As such no contract can be tied to playing for a specific school or based upon specific performance metrics.