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NCAA Enforcement Begins Attempted NIL Crackdown With Miami Inquiry
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:08 pm
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Next stop on the tour: College Station, TX
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The NCAA’s plan to explore name, image and likeness deals is no longer an idle threat.
The governing body of college athletics has launched an inquiry into the University of Miami serious enough that enforcement staff members visited the Coral Gables campus last week to conduct interviews, most notably with billionaire UM booster John Ruiz.
NCAA investigators spent at least two days in Miami prying into NIL deals, multiple sources tell Sports Illustrated. Contacted Tuesday morning, Ruiz confirmed that he spoke to NCAA enforcement staff members last week in what he termed a general “interview.”
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“I’m extremely comfortable with what we are doing. I have nothing to hide,” Ruiz tells SI. “It went super well. The NCAA is trying to wrap their hands around this sudden change of environment. They’re trying to figure out how the landscape is working.”
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NCAA staff members interviewed others in Miami as well in what is believed to be the first serious inquiry into a college athletic department since the association lifted rules last July that once prohibited athletes to earn compensation from their likeness. Last fall, several schools received inquiry letters from the NCAA, but this is a new string of more serious examinations from the organization.
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Ruiz, an ardent supporter of UM athletics whose three children attended the school, surged into the national conversation around NIL this spring with public and brazen social media posts regarding a bevy of deals he’s struck with athletes, most of them who compete for Miami. Though he declined to reveal specifics, Ruiz’s time in front of NCAA investigators is believed to have at least centered on his NIL deal with men’s basketball guard Nijel Pack, a Kansas State transfer who signed a two-year, $800K deal to endorse Ruiz’s two companies, LifeWallet, a healthcare application, and the Cigarette (boat) Racing Team.
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He is one of 115 athletes that Ruiz has signed to deals since the inception of NIL, and while he acknowledges that most of them attend Miami, he’s struck deals with players from North Carolina and FIU, he says. Ruiz says his NIL payroll is currently at about $7 million.
He describes the NCAA’s visit to Miami as not an “investigation” but more of an inquiry to learn more about the evolving landscape of NIL.
“A lot of NCAA bylaws are hard to reconcile with the ability and right to enter into NIL deals,” he says. “I think that the NCAA is starting to get a handle on the fact that it’s not capable of navigating within the [state] NIL laws and their own bylaws. There is an internal conflict.
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“I felt the people from the NCAA were extremely pleasant. They are tasked with the job of making sure they gather enough information and create a functioning standard for everybody. There has to be better regulation.”
A Miami spokesperson provided SI with a statement: “Like our peer institutions around the country, the University of Miami communicates with NCAA staff to ensure compliance with applicable NCAA regulations. Per NCAA rules, and in order to maintain the integrity of the review, the university cannot comment on specifics of the matter.”
Next stop on the tour: College Station, TX
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:09 pm to Colonel Ingus
NCAA is all bark no bite these days
I'll believe any enforcement/punishment when I see it
I'll believe any enforcement/punishment when I see it
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:09 pm to Colonel Ingus
I predict lots of butthurt in this thread
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:09 pm to Colonel Ingus
I'm sure Miami will be punished just as brutally as they were the last time.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:10 pm to Colonel Ingus
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Begins
Ruh ROH raggy
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:11 pm to SlicedBread
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Ruh ROH raggy
Currently shaking in our lil corps of cadets boots
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:11 pm to Blackgloves
I set the over/under of down votes of OP at 30.
I’ll take the over!
I’ll take the over!
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:12 pm to SlicedBread
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Ruh ROH raggy
That didn't take long.
Pooooor longhorns
Now where is Athens?
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:16 pm to Blackgloves
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I predict lots of butthurt in this thread
66% of the posts so far are A&M fans. My post will drop it down to 60%.
Coincidence?
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:17 pm to Blackgloves
Incoming:
NFLSU
LSUStephen17
3down10
SaturGayNAthens
Edit: 1 min late on 3down10
NFLSU
LSUStephen17
3down10
SaturGayNAthens
Edit: 1 min late on 3down10
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:18 pm to paperwasp
Miami cannot handle another penalty.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:21 pm to Colonel Ingus
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NFLSU
LSUStephen17
3down10
SaturGayNAthens
You forgot all the A&M fans who make up the majority of the thread...about Miami and the NIL.
I wonder why A&M fans are so interested in this topic.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:22 pm to Colonel Ingus
They failed to make the rules. If there are no rules, what makes a good vs bad NIL deal? It was destined to be a goat roping from the get go.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:24 pm to CNB
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NCAA is all bark no bite these days
I'll believe any enforcement/punishment when I see it
I wouldn't make out too much from the guy being interviewed honestly. Of course the NCAA was nice to him, that's the way they do it.
They are like the cop giving people breathalyzers. Keep blowing, you're doing great...Awesome! Almost there....put your hands behind your back.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:25 pm to CNB
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NCAA is all bark no bite these days
They just gave us enough evidence to fire our basketball coach with cause.
They have teeth.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:25 pm to 3down10
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I wonder why A&M fans are so interested in this topic.
Yet you’re always here.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:26 pm to Diamondawg
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They failed to make the rules. If there are no rules, what makes a good vs bad NIL deal? It was destined to be a goat roping from the get go.
False. The rules already existed. Boosters have never been allowed to contact recruits and make them offers in exchange for play. That's always been the rule, it's never changed.
The only thing that happened is some dumb people thought the supreme court made pay to play legal.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:28 pm to Colonel Ingus
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Yet you’re always here.
I guess your little pass aggressive call out didn't work. I'm interested in all the NIL talk, not sure why A&M fans showed up in a Miami thread being defensive from the start.
Shame.
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 6/14/22 at 3:28 pm to Colonel Ingus
Buy Jimbo say dey ain't did nuthin.
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