The Wild West of the NIL per AP Writer: Letters of Inquiry Have Gone Out to Multiple Schools Over the Last Few Months

[Steven A]

NCAA enforcement is faced with the tricky task of trying to police activities currently unregulated by detailed, uniform rules. (DUH)

 

Lack of detailed NIL rules challenges NCAA enforcement (msn.com)

[LADuck]

I like how our society works. One group creates work coming up with their rules. They are nebulous so people are not sure as to the guidelines and have another group (attorneys) create work by figuring out what was meant. Then the first group creates more billable hours by seeing if the impacted group has a correct interpretation of their originally poorly written rules. As they say ... clear as mud.

Edited January 29, 2022 by LADuck

[SmithRiverDuck]

It doesn't help that Emmert is an idiot who makes Larry Scott seem somewhat savvy by comparison.

[Steven A]

On 1/28/2022 at 9:37 PM, SmithRiverDuck said:

It doesn't help that Emmert is an idiot who makes Larry Scott seem somewhat savvy by comparison.

There is a third player, that would be Moe, the smart Stooge.

Edited January 29, 2022 by Steven A
better answer

[Duck1984]

Pissing in the ocean?

Edited January 29, 2022 by Duck1984

[SmithRiverDuck]

You may be on to something Steven.  I think Moe could be helpful in this situation. Somebody's gonna have to start clonking some heads together........

[idontrollonshobbas]

Where's Ignatius J. Reilly when we need him?

[Jon Joseph]

"D1" football has to depart the NCAA ASAP. 1 reason I was not happy to see the SEC Commissioner and the Ohio AD as co-chairs of the Transformation Committee. Ohio and Alabama are miles and miles apart in money spent on and earned from, their respective athletic programs. The NCAA steps into 'this' instead of allowing the big boy conferences to work things out and it will only make the situation worse. It is the wild west, an unregulated free market that over time, at the highest level of the sport(s) will regulate itself. 2 boosters are primarily responsible for Mel Tucker's new $95M deal. What's the ROI if Tucker never wins the B1G title let alone never gets to the playoff. What's the ROI for A+M boosters who just bought the number 1 recruiting class in the country if A+M doesn't win the SEC W let alone an SEC and Playoff title? For that matter, what was Nike's and United Airline's ROI on their deals with KT?

 

The CFB calculus will remain the same. There will be a few dominant schools, a number of very good schools and a bunch of mediocre to bad schools. What will likely change is the #of schools playing at the highest level; the likely coming Super League. Schools that can afford to pay coaches $9-10M+ a season and budget a 'huge' amount of dollars for its football program.