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Message: [QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 3779131, member: 7237"] This is an exceedingly complicated issue with a huge can of worms and that's probably when NCAA has not done anything. Once they do something there are slippery slopes 360 degrees all the way around. Team sports makes it even messier. Football and basketball more so because it is difficult to separate individual "likeness" and team "likeness". Basketball is the hardest at least in football you have more players in a team and you are wearing helmets. The first thing that comes to my mind would be a recruit will demand a minimum play time commitment from the coaches on games, more so on nationally televised games because he needs to maintain or enhance his NIL. Imagine a guy on a bench telling a coach that "my mother can't pay her mortgage next month because of your action of sitting me on the pine resulting in preventing me in getting proper exposure to make money off my NIL". There are also some misconceptions here. Some suggested that an NCAA athlete cannot get paid period, this is false. They cannot get paid doing THAT sport. A NCAA tennis scholarship student can work as a pizza delivery person and get paid, a tennis player can even participate in a pro tournament event and get price money, as long as it's less than $10000 per year. In fact you can even be a pro in one sport and get paid while being an amateur in another. In 2010, Kyle Parker was Clemson's quarterback after he got a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Colorado Rockies. Russell Wilson had a $200,000 signing bonus with the Rockies, some of which he had to return to the club when he left to play quarterback at Wisconsin. Roscoe Crosby had a $1.75 million signing bonus from the Kansas City Royals while a Clemson wide receiver in the early 2000s. These are exceptions of course, but the point is NCAA is not telling the students not to work period. In fact many tennis players on the pro circuits attend college part time, they just pay for college and not sign away their option to earn price money during college. This means today, a basketball player can potentially be a walk on to a college BB team and play in the G League or oversea summer league or compete in tournaments with price money. One example someone earlier gave was why can't a BB player make money off a tweet? Actually you can. Minnesota wrestler Joel Bauman tested the NCAA in 2013 by promoting that he was an NCAA wrestler on a music video he produced. Bauman declined to remove his name from any songs and eliminate any promotion of his status as an NCAA athlete. He got declared ineligible, a firestorm erupted, and he brilliantly turned the publicity into a marketing job. If he had made a music video without bringing in NCAA or Minnesota wrestling, and made money off the video it would have been OK. The whole issue is with lumping NCAA and the college and the team into your tweet or video or media you are profiting off. I am guessing the NCAA has a hard time figuring out how to draw a line between to what extent the individual player begins and where the team, school and NCAA ends. Individual sports like tennis and running is less challenging, team sports get tricky. I am not saying NCAA should not allow the students to get paid based on NIL, it's just it's a mess the size of a five gallon bucket of S***. Now, didn't the NCAA hired Condolezza Rice and formed some committee a few years back to sort out complex issues including this one? [/QUOTE]

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