The NCAA has backed further away from any policing or regulating NIL money. Today, they dropped a rule prohibiting athletes from negotiating the terms of name, image and likeness payments until after they enroll in school. - https://www.espn.com/college-sports...a-let-athletes-negotiate-nil-deals-enrollment
So now recruits can literally auction themselves off to every school recruiting them and get the highest bid, while the schools can openly use the offer of NIL money as a recruiting tool.
This change, along with the expansion to 15 scholarships, will allow the schools with the most money to load up on all the top recruits they can afford, as well as use the promise of NIL money to lure any transfer they covet.
"The change is one of the terms of a legal settlement announced Monday between the NCAA and a group of state attorneys general, who sued the association last year claiming that the restriction on NIL negotiations violated federal antitrust law. The settlement, which still needs to be approved by the judge overseeing the case, marks another step forward as the college sports industry prepares to embrace a more professional business model in the months ahead.
The NCAA's now-abandoned rule was designed to try to keep schools and booster collectives from using NIL deals as a recruiting incentive for incoming high school athletes and players in the transfer portal. Though schools and boosters were allowed to speak generally about the kind of financial opportunities that might be available on campus, they were prohibited from making a specific offer to an athlete until he or she was enrolled."
So now recruits can literally auction themselves off to every school recruiting them and get the highest bid, while the schools can openly use the offer of NIL money as a recruiting tool.
This change, along with the expansion to 15 scholarships, will allow the schools with the most money to load up on all the top recruits they can afford, as well as use the promise of NIL money to lure any transfer they covet.
"The change is one of the terms of a legal settlement announced Monday between the NCAA and a group of state attorneys general, who sued the association last year claiming that the restriction on NIL negotiations violated federal antitrust law. The settlement, which still needs to be approved by the judge overseeing the case, marks another step forward as the college sports industry prepares to embrace a more professional business model in the months ahead.
The NCAA's now-abandoned rule was designed to try to keep schools and booster collectives from using NIL deals as a recruiting incentive for incoming high school athletes and players in the transfer portal. Though schools and boosters were allowed to speak generally about the kind of financial opportunities that might be available on campus, they were prohibited from making a specific offer to an athlete until he or she was enrolled."
