It's easy to trace if you don't check your common sense at the door. Unfortunately the NCAA tends to do just that. There are some exceptions (Bronny James for example), but by and large you'd have to suspend your disbelief to accept that the name, image, and likeness of a recently enrolled 4* freshman recruit who hasn't even practiced with the team yet is worth anything, much less $100,000. I don't anticipate any of that stuff ever being seriously policed by the NCAA though, so I don't understand why UA seems to be taking such a hard line stance against it.

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Posted by BigBird09

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Posted on 8/16/22 at 4:04 pm to Robot Santa

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It's easy to trace if you don't check your common sense at the door. Unfortunately the NCAA tends to do just that. There are some exceptions (Bronny James for example), but by and large you'd have to suspend your disbelief to accept that the name, image, and likeness of a recently enrolled 4* freshman recruit who hasn't even practiced with the team yet is worth anything, much less $100,000. I don't anticipate any of that stuff ever being seriously policed by the NCAA though, so I don't understand why UA seems to be taking such a hard line stance against it.

I agree that it's obvious when players are getting paid to attend a certain school, but as far as tracing wrongdoing according to their rules it's impossible to trace unless the staff/school throw their common sense out the door. In NIL world, all you need is a spoken agreement. There's no more money trail to worry about.

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