At the risk of sounding naive or uninformed, can someone please tell me what the source is for the NIL numbers being thrown around so loosely in the media? I realize ON3 and perhaps others are generating/fabricating NIL values but I have not heard or seen any verifiable source(s) for individual or total player expenditures by collectives or schools.

The dollar amounts come from the same source. The writers who cover who is sleeping with whom in Hollywood. The most attractive starlets get the most pub and the highest level of conjecture about how they are able to get the juiciest movie roles. The actresses left on the roadside blame the "system" and everyone but themselves. Roadside coaches deflect and pass along rumors of "offers" in the same way.

32 minutes ago, MrBrooks said:

At the risk of sounding naïve or uninformed, can someone please tell me what the source is for the NIL numbers being thrown around so loosely in the media? I realize ON3 and perhaps others are generating/fabricating NIL values but I have not heard or seen any verifiable source(s) for individual or total player expenditures by collectives or schools.

I don't know. Do a Google search and let us know?