re: NCAA commissions task force to separate big money boosters from NIL deals

It needs to be reined in. But I don’t see how. The NCAA brought this upon themselves when they used and sold NIL to companies, The NCAA has profited off of the names, images and likenesses of players, for years, without sharing or even consulting the athletes. They have lost every legal challenge so far. So what the NCAA is trying to do is stuff the genie back into the bottle that it released because of its own greed. There no such thing as “amateur” athletics at the D1 level anymore.

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Quote the rule. Show me what you're talking about.

As far as I can tell, the term "booster" is out the fricking window when it comes to NIL deals. The NCAA can't do jack shite about it.

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The NCAA can do whatever they want because letter of the law, it's still a violation.

It isn't like the NCAA has ever had to present a lot of proof when they released sanctions.

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Quote the rule. Show me what you're talking about.

As far as I can tell, the term "booster" is out the fricking window when it comes to NIL deals. The NCAA can't do jack shite about it.

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Well I mean they specifically are mentioning boosters in the OP, so I'm not sure what the frick you are talking about really.

You are obviously delusional.

Show me the rule that "boosters" cannot strike NIL deals with student-athletes.

I know for a fact that Auburn Compliance cleared Auburn’s NIL collective which has already raised over $7million to cover current NIL contracts. That entire collective is funded by around 10 men/families which could all be considered “boosters” by the antiquated NCAA description. Hell, one of the biggest contributors also funded the lions share of Gus’ buyout. He’s a major decision maker in AU Athletics and he was behind giving Gus his contract extension of $49M guaranteed after he beat UGA and Bama back to back. The man had to pony up and pay Gus the buyout. HE is the epitome of an Auburn booster/supporter. And he’s backing their NIL now.

I personally know Auburn has the hardest screw in college compliance (Rich McGlynn) running their operation over there. He would have never allowed NIL Auburn to take flight or allow them to contract with Tank Bigsby or the nearly 90 other AU student-athletes knowing their NIL collective is 100% funded by Auburn financial supporters “boosters in the eyes of the ncaa” if it was against NCAA rules. It would’ve never happened, period.

Hell, McGlynn’s department just went through years of an NCAA investigation due to Chuck Persons fiasco. He’s not about to skirt any issue where AU NIL is funded by the very Auburn men that make a ton of decisions for AU athletics.

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The PUF is split 2:1

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So if every dollar in the A&M endowment came from state oil leases and you doubled that, your endowment would still be short of theirs by Auburn, UT, Arkansas, and Bama combined endowment.

Face it, Aggies think they are the richest public school with the richest alumni but it’s not even close. That doesn’t always equate to athletic donations but Texas did pretty good in the 2000’s. You were pretty good during WWII when you were an all male farm college.

Perhaps we will see with Texas, but they were right about you. Never should have let you coattail dragging weirdos into the conference.

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Show me the rule that "boosters" cannot strike NIL deals with student-athletes.

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Or maybe you should try reading the OP, which says all this shite.

I mean it even directly says in the article itself:

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Under a long-held NCAA rule, boosters are a representative arm of an athletic department and are not supposed to associate with or persuade prospects.

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"The guidelines, still in draft form, outline that booster-backed collectives should be prohibited from associating with high school prospects and college transfers, potentially opening the door for contentious legal challenges between the association and booster groups"

Schools that do not control their donors’ spending could be found to have violated NCAA rules and will be sanctioned, according to the document. The NCAA enforcement staff have made inquiries only into a small handful of programs so far, but the guidelines could spark deeper investigations into improper inducements tied to NIL payments.

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Same shite I've been saying for weeks and all you A&M fans keep saying is that I'm wrong.

Personally, I think the reality is starting to sink in for you.