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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4265259, member: 405"]
Yes, you can cherry pick pieces where the NCAA says "all our old rules apply", but this is a new thing, and they failed to regulate it.  They can't go back and say that these booster collectives are illegal now, after they told schools it was OK, and that boosters could enter into contracts with kids - just not as compensation to come to my school. <wink wink>

All a booster has to say is, "These are the kinds of opportunities that are available [I]to a kid like you[/I] if you came to our school."

Anything they do - except for directly giving money to a kid to come to your school in a quid-pro-quo - is LEGAL.

Find the language in those 2 articles that says that there are any limits on what boosters do, other than quid-pro-quo's, which have always been illegal?

Remember we went on probation for kids getting paid for no show jobs at the Y?  That's legal now.  Getting a flashy car?  Legal.  Getting paid for it?  Legal.  Sell clothes; legal.  How long before Nike or UA or another athletic apparel company makes deals with these elite HS kids?

World Wide Wes (agent referrals, loans to players or their families, etc.) - so long as they are couched as "being available to somebody with your credentials" as our starting QB or whatever.  As long as they say that little bit to couch the transaction, it's all OK now.
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