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We are talking about different things. People are *I think* freaking out about NIL because of the possibility of some suggestion that somehow we're doing something contrary to NCAA. My point was that NCAA investigations into wrongdoing (of any type) aren't courtroom battles.

Maybe I wasn't clear earlier. You indicated that in a court of law, there would be a difficulty establishing that any entity or individual induced (recruited) a player to come to a certain school in exchange for a promotional/business deal. I'd tend to agree with that conceptually. My point...

Respectfully, who cares what happens in a courtroom? The primary issue with NIL is will it cause the NCAA to sanction a particular school. As we all know, that's not a court proceeding. That's a completely different set of standards and the ones that can give a school pause.

Also, the fact is that what Ruiz/LifeWallet and likely everyone else is doing right now is legal so whatever. It's not like we're going to be penalized. It's total lawlessness right now. That's both good and bad. Going forward, some of this stuff may not be permissible but whatever. Ruiz and...

You guys are missing the point. The issue is, is LifeWallet or Ruiz or [insert entity or individual] inducing an athlete to come to the University of Miami [or any other school] in exchange for promotional deals? Maybe the idea for the NCAA is to forbid any deals until a student is enrolled...

Ruiz's publicity and braggadocio is both good and bad. It is good to the extent that it has likely caused kids to look at UM and see what it has to offer whereas maybe a kid wouldn't have been interested. On the flip side, it brings attention to him and the school . . . when @Rellyrell talks...