re: 30 More Mins To Fantasize That The NCAA Is Going To Take Down NICO

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A link on a web? One of many links to webpages. They have a link to Bryce Young’s and his NILs. Does that make them a Bama Booster. There’s links about car dealerships and bakers does that mean they sell cars and bake cakes?

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Any school they promote or provide benefits to an athlete who attends the school makes them a a booster.

The bar for being named a booster is EXTREMELY low and always has been. The NCAA requires the schools to be aware of who their boosters are and regulate their actions.

Spyre is a booster for any school for which they provide benefits for their student athletes or for whom they promote their sports program.

And yes, a link to a UT sports organization does count as promotion. The link itself is enough. Providing any kind of financial service or benefit to a UT athlete also is enough.

You seem to think there is some sort of specific legal step an organization can take to "get around" the booster definition. It doesn't work that way. The bylaws are generic for a reason.

Now if Spyre is also providing services to athletes at other schools, they can be considered a booster for them as well. In that case any recruiting violation they commit on that school's behalf would also warrant NCAA sanctions.

There's nothing wrong with being a booster. In fact with the changes to NIL rules the list of what a booster can't do is much smaller as they can give players money now. What they can't do is mostly recruiting relating actions... like flying a player to a school for an unofficial recruiting visit.

I'm sorry you don't agree with the NCAA bylaws, but they clearly mark Spyre as a booster. They've been in place for over 25 years. You keep thinking Spyre has some sort of legal "get out of jail free" card. They don't, regardless of how much you try to claim otherwise.