The NCAA is going to make an example out of A&M’s inferior meat judging team. Those back room NIL deals have still failed to topple Texas Tech’s dynasty.
Those phone calls will occur in 3 years and the sit-downs in 5 years NCAA can't retain staff at all these days especially on the enforcement side
"You're good, but you have to narc on your team and the ppl paying so we can destroy them" That's not going to go well
Straightening out some of this NIL stuff and giving A&M the death penalty while doing it seems like a win for everyone to me.
Nothing is going to happen with this unless there is a "paper" trail where a school said "XYZ Inc. will give you 800K if you sign to play here."
Even if the paper trail exists, the schools/collectives will sue and best case scenario it’s a multi-year process before anything happens. Realistically, the courts will likely rule against the NCAA based on the stance the federal government took previously. The Athletic put out an article today that quoted collective reps calling this “adorable”.
Should have been the original plan but the NCAA spent 70 million fighting it to get their ass kicked.
By the time any of this would take effect these schools are going to ready to break way from the NCAA. Whatever they form will likely regulate this stuff more, but I don’t think any of them give two shits what the NCAA has to say about it.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall of the secretary for the billionaire boosters when the NCAA compliance office shows up for a sit-down.
"The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation." Jerry Tarkanian
I keep thinking, the NCAA is about to hammer someone, just to prove they still can. I think they nail Tennessee though, for the McDonalds bags of cash, and add something about NIL to chill everyone else.
I'm just happy Kirby runs a clean program recruiting the kids who WANT to be here. No payment needed.