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Title IX was a part of it, but I don't know how big of a part it was. Another one was that if you're paid to play, are you a student-athlete, or are you an employee? And if you're employee, do all the employer/employee relationships and laws apply? Because that changes a lot.

I always thought that the idea of NIL was that if a player could earn an endorsement deal based on their fame, they should be allowed to. Or if someone had a monetizable Youtube channel (which was an actual case), they don't have to choose between Youtube and football. Or if they got some gold pants as a result of beating their rival, those gold pants belonged to them and they could sell them if they wanted.

Instead, apparently it's "the school can't pay you to play, so the boosters will pay you to play." No strings, no endorsements, no actual use of your name, image, or likeness... Just a check because you're on the team.

I sure as hell don't begrudge the players for this... But it seems like the system is f$&#*d.

So it's interesting because the talent still obviously flowed to the schools with more money. 

Some of that was because the boosters were paying. Some was because they built palaces and weight rooms every five years. Some that they bought big staffs with pretty recruiting assistants and whatever. Some was because you could just go buy and hold onto the best coaches. 

Without NIL, it got plenty top-heavy. Maybe it gets more so, but there isn't much room on that side. 

In the end, the playing field can't be leveled because they can't take Alabama and Wisconsin's money and give it to Eastern Michigan and Colorado State. Resources lean toward the top, talent too. But somehow, the spirit of competition, across an already stratified sport will continue on. 

If Wisconsinites don't want to pay to participate, then that is their problem. No free lunches here. The whole system was broken because it was based in not paying people for their work, which is theft.

Tell it to the student with the grades paying his freight.But ya they should have allowed kids to make coin off their likeness,that way if they still could have went to their favorite schools and things would have stayed in line.The NFL have been slime balls for quite sometime,now Universities are giving the slippery slope a shot.We're not in Kansas anymore

Correct.  Microsoft could agree to pay Baker an extra $10M per year if he joins the Seahawks next year.  It's just that no one has explicitly done that, it's all advertisement related.

If Wisconsinites don't want to pay to participate, then that is their problem. No free lunches here. The whole system was broken because it was based in not paying people for their work, which is theft.

Stealing a scholarship is theft.

"We ain't come to play skool" and all that.

Stealing a scholarship is theft.

"We ain't come to play skool" and all that.

How can someone steal a scholarship? You may not care if you have it, but that's not the same as stealing. 

Good Point and I just made the connection,but Atheletic Departments aren't shouting down the help either.This is where - IMO -  the spirit of what was once the NCAA could/should sort things out and keeps some balance.Now I'm hearing someone at EMU tossed 1 million at caleb Williams

Charlie Batch offers Caleb Williams massive NIL deal to transfer to Eastern Michigan

Eastern Michigan lost its top two QBs to the transfer portal. In the NIL era, could the Eagles land Caleb Williams through a million dollar deal?

Yeah, I posted it a few days ago, that's what led us back down this rabbit hole

How can someone steal a scholarship? You may not care if you have it, but that's not the same as stealing.

Tell that to the person who deserves it and would love to have it.