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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5681505, member: 628"] People need to differentiate between NIL and player compensation from the school. Folks use "NIL" as a shorthand but they are two different sources of money. SU wants direct booster contributions to fund the $20.5 million they can pay directly to their athletes. Every dollar someone donates to that is a dollar SU doesn't have to cough up on their own. By all accounts SU is paying ~$4 million from the $20.5M to men's basketball players. NIL proper still exists outside those parameters. And that's how school's go from $4-5 million to $8 million+. Again, by all accounts here, SU is in that $8 million range this season. Of course, unless all those accounts were incorrect. I feel like I'm going to be reminding people of the difference between direct compensation and NIL until the end of time. :( [/QUOTE]