re: Alabama: Other schools are buying players

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So your boosters are running rogue? They are acting on behalf of aTm athletics completely without the knowledge or direction of aTm's Administration or coaching staff?

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I’m saying that won’t be able to be disputed.

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You wanna go rogue that’s your call but play by the rules as they exist or leave.

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Nope. There is a third option. Sue and win.
If the SEC fined A&M for something they couldn’t legally do, A&M would sue. And would win.

Courts can and will overturn the will of the NCAA.

This is exactly why Saban has said we need federal legislation. Because he knows teams can and will get away with this until it’s resolved.

He’s not wrong.

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Nope. There is a third option. Sue and win.
If the SEC fined A&M for something they couldn’t legally do, A&M would sue. And would win.

Courts can and will overturn the will of the NCAA.

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There's literally no hope for you.

You're choosing to remain willfully ignorant at this point.

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I believe he is right Sidewalk. The courts would side with the school over the ncaa in todays environment.

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It's possible but that's a matter of opinion right now.

As of today, A&M has no legal standing by which to sue the NCAA for enforcing its rules as they pertain to NIL.

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You're choosing to remain willfully ignorant at this point.

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I’m really not. I actually hope we get a better system. Because where we are is messed up. Royally.

But I also know there is no way any NCAA ruling will hold up regarding this as the laws and legal opinions stated by SCOTUS currently stand.

I don’t think A&M and others will continue to be able to exploit this advantage long. We will plug this hole.

But no one is going to “take them down”. Schools are openly advertising pay packages. It’s everywhere.

You hoping that A&M will get their is a dream. A wish. It’s not gonna happen.

I think it'd be very tough because the NCAA is pretty clear about its stance on "pay for play" right now.

It would also likely depend on the severity of the violation and how much evidence there was.

One thing is for sure, it isn't a good look for members of the A&M coaching staff to be openly enticing recruits with NIL money on camera.

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But I also know there is no way any NCAA ruling will hold up regarding this as the laws and legal opinions stated by SCOTUS currently stand.

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Again, that's an opinion.

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Schools are openly advertising pay packages. It’s everywhere.

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I haven't seen anyone doing it to the point of breaking rules, outside of maybe Texas' $50k offensive line thing and the comments by the Aggie coach.

Do you have another example?

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You hoping that A&M will get their is a dream. A wish. It’s not gonna happen.

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I honestly don't care if Aggie gets "nailed" or not, everyone cheats.

I'm just correcting some of the delusional posts about NIL in this thread.

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As of today, A&M has no legal standing by which to sue the NCAA for enforcing its rules as they pertain to NIL.

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They certainly would have standing if the supposed sanctions harmed A&M. Not now. But if this domino fell, A&M absolutely would have standing and cause.

We are talking about a group of people that have put up a billion dollars for their football program.

You don’t think they would spend a few million on good lawyers that could win a lawsuit when the current environment regarding payment of players is in their favor?

They absolutely would. Would the win? Maybe not.

But there chances are good.

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They certainly would have standing if the supposed sanctions harmed A&M. Not now. But if this domino fell, A&M absolutely would have standing and cause.

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This is false.

You can not seem to grasp the fact that the NCAA absolutely holds the school/program responsible for the action of its boosters, whether the school is involved or not, whether the school even knows about it or not.

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We are talking about a group of people that have put up a billion dollars for their football program.

You don’t think they would spend a few million on good lawyers that could win a lawsuit when the current environment regarding payment of players is in their favor?

They absolutely would. Would the win? Maybe not.

But there chances are good.

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Again, it's possible but nowhere close to a slam dunk.

It's possible the NCAA could argue that NIL+education benefits is compensation enough and that A&M willfully broke rules for a competitive advantage (if a violation was actually discovered).

I'd give it a 50/50 shot either way.

Sorry y’all, Alabama legislature just passed a law allowing Bama and Auburn to play athletes who have moved on to the NFL.

Our new starters are Mac Jones, Derrick Henry, Julio Jones and half the AFC all pro defense.

We hate it but our hands are pretty much tied. See y’all in September.