Was great reading how much he loves the school
Yeah not exactly sure how you can receive NIL offers while you’re not in the portal. Any schools doing that should be getting penalized for it.
Not in the NCAAs wheelhouse
It’s not the schools.
Also means he’s getting real money here which is a good sign for player retainment now and in the future
Agreed. I enjoyed reading that he loved the school, but he's getting paid. There's been a noticeable difference in the last couple months between the basketball commits and the commits we've been getting so far in football. I don't think that's a coincidence in the NIL era.
Hey watch it, one more crack like that and Boeheim will lose another 100 wins and Penn State will be given an extra 30 scholarships
Doesn’t matter. Boosters are an extension of the school. The kids don’t just magically appear on their roster in the fall after playing at another school the year before.
I think that in any state where the legislature has passed a law explicitly stating that the NCAA is barred from punishing schools for violations of the NCAA's own NIL rules, we should assume that, yes, it is the schools.
If the Golf people are on Congress mind, it won't be long until they start looking into college football.
Tampering is rampant in college athletics.
Everyone is doing it so it must be all right
I absolutely hate it.
You are saying that employees of schools are reaching out to recruits?
It's no secret - even to those turning a blind eye - that NIL boosters are 'representing' (promoting) the interests of their respective schools. The factory fat cats needed a ruse to buy talent and reward performance to get around NCAA rules. NIL is delivering. [edit - however, I don't have any problem with legit. NIL so kids can get paid for appearances and signatures ... even if the IP value is really in the team brand].
I fully expect that this is happening already in certain states. The legal writing is on the wall, and some states are (IMO) willing to bankroll the challenge to the NCAA's regs in this regard. I have no direct evidence of this. Nevertheless.
How do you penalize a school when it's not the school making the offer?
It's absolutely tampering, but, as you laid out, the schools are insulated from it mafia style because third parties are the ones offering the NIL deals. How can that be policed?
I think the difference is those are concrete rules easily connected to the schools. The NIL rules are harder to connect to the schools, so the loopholes are big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through. If the NCAA tries to close the loopholes, they'll be accused having too many rules. It's the whole reason that rule book Bilas complains about is so thick. If they make a general rule that institutions have to interpret through a lens of integrity, one scumbag will play dumb to get an advantage. Then they have to get so specific, everyone complains they're nitpicky.
