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Message: [QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 5353209, member: 559"] Much the same as the NFL salary cap contols how much the Chiefs can pay Patrick Mahomes, but has no impact on how much he can make from T-Mobile or State Farm. Nor should it. Issue with translating that to college sports is that State Farm and T Mobile make a business decision to partner with Mahomes and how much he is worth to the brand as an endorser on a national level. As you mention, current state of NIL has nothing to do with compensating a player for use of his or her name, image or likeness and the resultant transactions have nothing to do with the value of the endorsement. It's largely pure pay for play by business owners or high roller donors who want to see their teams at a local level win games. Hence the need for some type of clearinghouse, Absent that nothing will help the competitive balance and the floor for athlete compensation simply raises exponentially. [/QUOTE]