Clarifying NIL: Volunteers vs NCAA

1. NCAA attempting to prevent NIL being used in recruiting, but the reason everyone is doing exactly that… is because the NCAA passed rules that allow athletic departments to partner with collectives directly.

2. NIL is classified on paper as individual “advertising revenue”… but it is facilitated by schools, provided exclusively to athletes, and funded by donations from boosters. Lulz.

3. Seeing as NIL has “nothing to do with sports”, it cannot legally be regulated by the NCAA. TN’s suit is taking an antitrust angle, claiming that by attempting to regulate NIL — the NCAA is restricting free trade.

4. Interestingly, the NFL has an antitrust exemption for this very reason… this allows the NFL to regulate & promote parity, because revenue payouts from the NFL are generated by the NFL.

This will go one of two ways:
A) Everyone admits NIL is just pay for play. NCAA is replaced. TV revenue sharing is opened to athletes. New league’s governing body is granted antitrust exemption to regulate.

B) University affiliation with collectives & the entire collective structure are deemed infractions. This is just trying to put a cat back in a bag & would fail. NCAA would have to come down on every school. They lose every antitrust lawsuit & total anarchy commences.

Summary — NCAA is not long for this world. A legitimate end to CFB is near, regardless of how we feel about it.

If you can think of another possible outcome, I’m all ears.