Re: Did anybody else see Gary Patterson's comments on nil?

His wording may not have been PC, but he is speaking the truth.

Once upon a time coaches would meet with boosters and tell them, "It's gonna take 10,000 bucks and a new car to sign this player" and a booster would stand up and say, "I've got that." It was sorta like an auction where boosters would "buy" a player. And, it was against NCAA rules.

Now, it isn't. If a football coach (or his intermediary) tells a booster, "It's gonna take 50,000 bucks in an NIL agreement for him to come" and the booster says, "No problem. I can handle that" then the NCAA will not even try to say that is illegal. They have already essentially said it is up to the conferences and schools to police NIL agreements, they are out of it.

Booster club presidents, and those who raise megabucks from boosters will now be asking those mega-donors, "How much are you going to give to the booster club and how much are you going to give for NIL?"

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Oct 7, 2021, 4:30 PM [ in reply to Re: Did anybody else see Gary Patterson's comments on nil? ]

How is that cheating?

" The NCAA rules only prohibit a school or its employees from paying an athlete directly for his or her NIL rights. Some states have laws in place that say athletic departments and their employees may not "cause compensation to be directed" to athletes, but the specifics of what is and is not allowed remain murky."

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It's open season on buying college athletes. We all knew this was going to be the result of NIL. Patterson just told the truth about where this is headed if not already there. And I think we are there.

The sport would have been better off if all colleges were allowed to pay athletes a salary with a minimum and maximum range for the athletes. Under NIL there is no minimum or maximum. It's a bidding war. The NCAA dug this hole we are in by resisting paying athletes.