re: How does Bayou Tradidtions structure NIL contracts?

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everything surely is on a year to year basis.

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So what happens at the end of the year for those that we expect to stay? Is every single player brought in between the last game and the portal opening and given an offer to stay?

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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.

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I do not know for sure, but I do not think a business can tie the money to enrollment at LSU, or being on the team. That would be pay to play.

I think they get around that by putting language in the contract that the player has to live in a certain town or certain zip codes.That way if a player leaves Baton Rouge, his contract with McKernan law, for example, gets voided. The business putting up the money has that protection that the player only gets paid if he stays in BR. The fallacy of tying the deal to a location is that a local business can say that a kid who lives in another area has no value to their business and kill the deal.

I also think these deals have walkaway clauses built in for both sides. It is in reality pay for play, but worded in a way to get around that.

What might get some tricky litigation down the road is when a player gets big upfront money. Thats certainly more attractive to many 20 yr olds than getting their money up front instead of spread out. Sooner or later one of these kids is going to get sued for reneging on a deal. It’s a bad look for the school if their supporters sue a kid, so I suppose thats why seen have not much of that yet.