How I definitely agree with the concept/ premise, that NIL SHOULD be an agreement between a private entity and a student athlete, and not the school. Its hard to ignore the schools involvement. So as long as there is equal access to the administration (employees at Clemson or any other school that are there to assist any athlete regardless of gender, race, etc.)) then I think this is a fair decision.

That said, I am concerned about this being a very slippery slope. What is to stop a Athletic departments in conjunction with its booster club to reclassifying "IPTAY" as a NIL operation, and basically have all of the donors funnel their dollars through that apparatus. You could then pay the athletes in NIL dollars for not only the NIL aspect but also the cost of Tuition, room board etc. The athelete would then need to pay for their schooling, but the amount of money (Package) is still the same. Does this affectively by-pass Title 9. If you can do that, then you dont have to fund as many womens sports. I feel like someone is going to challenge this. So I dont think this issue is going to go away quietly, and will be interesting to see how this develops.