If you read the NIL rules published in August of 2024

Feb 3, 2025, 11:35 AM

you'll quickly understand that both colleges and the NCAA hands are tied when it comes to what players will do.

"Slated to take effect August 1, 2024, the new rules allow athletes to pursue NIL opportunities without limitations imposed by the NCAA, conferences, or universities. These opportunities include endorsement deals, sponsorships, and other commercial activities. The rule also fortifies compliance with Title IX requirements.

Furthermore, as has always been the case since the inception of NIL, NIL deals must be independent and not tied to enrollment, performance, or team membership. Additionally, agreements with third parties can’t be contingent on continuing enrollment at an institution. New disclosure measures will also apply to third-party NIL service providers, such as sports agents, financial advisors, and athletic consultants."

Lets add to this that while the NCAA, Conferences, or colleges may not have limits they are also required to keep track of NIL deals and must be the ones to inform a players as to whether they got a good deal or not. You can buy the swimming pool but you can't have any say in how much the pool costs or even where the pool is built, or who builds it.

All this said,NCAA colleges and Conferences need to start controilling what they can control. That is coaches, coaching staff, sports administration etc. If they cannot limit pursuit of NIL by "students", (that's a joke) they certainly can control the people in their employ and the organizations making offers to play the game at all. They are not doing that at present.

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Re: If you read the NIL rules published in August of 2024

There is no way out of this.

Can a school prohibit the NIL compensated player from wearing the team uniform when doing advertisements? (That is, doing something to harm the player’s / NIL collective’s ability to get a return on investment, which might be what the school and NIL collective would want to do if the player decides to sit out games or hits the portal.). Probably so. Can you guess what happens to the school’s recruitment of athletes when word gets out that the school will not allow the out-of-favor player from wearing the team’s uniform?

It doesn’t need to be said.

Can the school’s get together and all agree to not ‘arrange for’ NIL payments above a certain amount? No. Doing so would be like creating a different version of the NCAA that would exist for the purposes of organizing anti-trust collusion among the schools.

Imposing other rules which result in a restraint on how much NIL money can be made by a student athlete also falls under the anti-trust / illegal collusion laws.

If you read the NIL rules published in August of 2024

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