re: Why are some fan bases scared of the NCAA losing power?

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Schools that stayed back in the NIL situation at the absolute beginning are learning more. No NIL deal will ever require going to a certain school, but they can require a certain amount of selective appearances that will make it hard to be at another school. They can even require living in an area. What good does it do MBOBR if Angel is driving her big body Benz somewhere outside of BR?

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The actual bylaw for the NCAA says that NIL deals cannot contain any "inducements" to attend a particular school.

No NIL deals say "you have to go to X school". But having appearance requirements that require you to live in the town a school is in can be viewed as an "inducement" to attend that school. And the NCAA was using that to go after Tennessee.

Doesn't matter now as the courts are removing that (which is really the only NIL rule in the NCAA bylaws). But it's wrong to think that it had to be spelled out in the NIL contract to be a violation of that now meaningless rule.