Perhaps, it's because the actual reality of the matter is that NIL has NOTHING to do with NIL in the true sense of the word, disguised and masqueraded for 100% PAY FOR PLAY. What I don't "understand" is how so many folks are A okay with being insulted and so willing to simply play along.
Yeah, Tuttle is talking down to us about what NIL encompasses and he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about... the pay-for-play aspect of NIL deals related to injuries is exactly what I was bringing up.
It's a thing and agents are negotiating with collectives now on it as part of the player NIL contract approval. It is a fairly new negotiating point and the agent quoted in the article below says there aren't uniform standards for it as yet across different programs and NIL collectives, but the issue is evolving.
Here's an article from this summer where a player/agent-side NIL lawyer discussed the pay-to-play aspects related to injuries of player contract negotiations with NIL collectives:
To an extent there's any uniformity, there are variables to whether an injury docks a player NIL payment -- including where the injury took place. And of course, there's insurance involved
www.cbssports.com
"...To the extent such language does exist in a contract, there are ways collectives attempt to protect themselves on the front end with vague language. For instance, if an athlete's marketability is "impaired," payment could be stopped. One could argue a lot of things could fall into the bucket of impairment, including injury."
"If I'm representing an athlete, and I see [a clause like that] in there, the first thing I'm doing is I'm asking to have it removed, because I'm not having my athlete waive their payments on the off chance that they happen to get hurt in a contact sport like that's just kind of silly to me," a different NIL agent told CBS Sports. "What I can argue is, you're at practice, he made a cut, it was non-contact cut, and he gets hurt. You're not gonna withhold my client for payment at that point because he's doing what you're asking him to do."
A pertinent discussion point is what if the team doctor and training staff clears an injured player for return to practice and the player's personal physician does not? How is that handled legally from a pay-to-play NIL perspective and are there NIL contract provisions that deal with it?
