re: Washington lost 20 players to the portal

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All you say is true so let me rephrase … trying to keep people from the basic rights to profit from their efforts to freely market their talents elsewhere should they so choose will not survive a court challenge in the 21st century.

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how money changes hands via contract is highly regulated at every level. Explain to me how an nil cooperative and a player can enter into a contract, where the consideration for the cooperative is in fact a player playing for the school tied to the cooperative vs the cooperative actually securing nil rights that justify the payments to the player. In that case an entity other than the party to the contact is receiving the consideration. That's called fraud.
It would be extremely easy to prove in court that the nil value of a given player does not come close to the $ being given to them. Just because the supreme Court said the players can sign nil deals doesn't mean the law gets thrown out the window. These nil cooperatives are legally suspect and possibly fraudulent. I can easily see how they could be used to launder money for one thing. There are many ways this could be attacked, but it's going to take someone with standing to bring suits or a state justice department to do so. Maybe what's happened to Alabama will prompt the Alabama attorney general to litigate it