re: Why would the SEC agree to a ‘salary cap’ the same as the ACC or Big-12?

Salary cap = a return to the old ways of the best bagmen systems lapping the field.

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Why are we paying players?

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Why are we paying coaches, ADs, school president's so forth and so on? If the players should do it for the love of the game/craft then why shouldn't the coaches, administrators and teachers, right?
The athletes generate all those millions in the graph, not the schools. Why do you think these schools "sponsor" athletic programs, specifically football and rush to D1? They can't generate that amount of money otherwise without govt funding. Not free and clear money they can use at their discretion.
Imagine a world where muscled up, genetic freaks give 4-5 years of their life, risking both physical and mental health, generating $100 million in that period for a business and the business gets to keep all the money. The workers, room, board, education(ha fricking ha). Sounds a little like how slavery has been described. In what other industry would it be allowed or ok?

The future model in regards to the academics and sports wings of universities is something very similar to the UK model. Licensing agreement where the athletic department is its own entity. Schools always talk about selling their brand. Eventually, to most sports fans, that's all they'll be. A brand.

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Despite popular opinion, NIL giving will not change with this bc there's no way to even to begin regulate it and enforce it, so it'll continue as is.

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You could do it by making players employees, let them create a union and craft a CBA that includes NIL money caps and a reporting framework to monitor it. The NFL doesn't really include NIL type money for their players in the CBA because it doesn't move the needle as much when players pick which team they play for. There is also a draft where players can't pick where they start their career.

The colleges put some sort of cap on NIL and require that the players submit a financial report that shows their income. You say School A can only have $XX million of NIL deals for their entire team in year 20XX. The Player's union and schools review the reports and confirm the the aggregate NIL of all their players are above or below the "salary cap".

Not saying it will be done that way but you could put a cap on NIL. As long as the schools and a potential players' union agree on a framework, pretty much anything can be done.

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IF the NCAA could've locked it down, they would've done it 94 yrs ago.

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FIFY

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My son has an agent and has signed an NIL deal starting June 1st. I don’t understand.

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Evan’s not getting paid for his NIL, which is why NIL needs to go away and pay for play needs regulated. Your kid is a top kicker, recruited and paid by a collective. Most of these kids aren’t worth shite when it comes to their actual name image and likeness. You also leveraged multiple schools in the process during your sons recruitment which is another reason it needs regulated.

The collectives are generally a group of businesses and their names go on a banner, along with the school’s, and then the athletes go to charities or bike giveaways or habitat for humanity builds (with the banner hung up)…once a month under the umbrella of volunteering…but that’s how you get your collective NIL check. I could see the big name players not taking the monthly checks and therefore not doing the ‘volunteering’.

The athletes post on social media about these events and it gives the sponsors some advertising.

Crazy, but I doubt this all goes away…the profit sharing portion won’t ’do good’ like the collectives.

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You also leveraged multiple schools in the process during your sons recruitment which is another reason it needs regulated.

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Didn’t leverage one single school. Only went to SEC schools so as to not pick up unwanted offers. He tried out at UF first. The morning of his Ark tryout Ole Miss called and offered. He waited until mid football season to commit and basically tell Ole Miss to keep looking.
It was over for UF, they specifically said they weren’t going to give a scholarship to a ‘25.

UF hired a special teams analyst from the Patriots and he started recruiting 2026 kickers. Watched some of my boys tape in that process and said what about him…brought him in for another tryout and he kicked lights out. Brought in the top 2026s…then some time later convinced Napier that it was better to go with my son. So he got an offer.

He got an insane offer to switch from UF…that would have been leverage…not one team looked at him because he committed to Ark.

It would if it was actually enforced. Why have rules when they’re not enforced? The ncaa is a joke.

You clearly don't understand the difference between NIL and profit sharing.