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Message: [QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5379276, member: 722"] My idea was using Private Equity (more likely Business Development Companies) to turn the athletic department into a commercial enterprise. Sure, the rules currently prohibit the AD directly paying players, but that isn’t really the point. Could you partner with a business in a way where they dramatically juice your NIL funding to improve your team all at once, thus driving increases in revenue for the department? In exchange, said business gets an investor-like cut off the increased revenue. Hypothetically, a $5 million additional investment in NIL nets you a top10 team, and brings average attendance up 10k for 20 home dates. That additional attendance nets $30 million in revenue, the BDC costs a $5 million profit and the school has an extra $25 million because it was inventive in its business strategy. Nobody at the NCAA even thought to make that illegal, so everything is good in Orange Land [/QUOTE]