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I like the idea but don't make it about buying out NIL. Remember that technically the schools are not involved in NIL, so a school can't buy out an NIL deal because they can't be involved in NIL payouts. That would be a salary and would make the athlete an employee. @JeddTheFisch the fly in...

Agree completely but I will bring up an issue. Courts do not like to enforce personal service contracts with specific performance. For example, if a singer does not appear at a show, the singer will have to return the money for the show but the court will not make the singer perform. So using...

Possibly my favorite all-time college basketball game was the 1990 NC when Vegas beat the pants off Duke. It was like watching UM beat Texas and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it from happening.

One of my all-time favorites. Tark the Shark

Possilby but historically when the player has not gained something tangible like money, the NCAA has penalized the school and taken away the school’s ability to recruit that player. An old example is when U of Michigan basketball was caught taking some recruits to see Ed Martin during a...

Tampering is the NCAA term which prevents schools from making contact with players under scholarship. That is an actual NCAA violation but its next to impossible to enforce it because it's next to impossible to prove who made contact first with whom; school, player, friend of player, parent...

The problem is that the NCAA/universities are not paying the athletes. This is all outside endorsement income. This is like trying to limit how much Kevin Durant can make on his shoe deal.

100% correct. And frankly after reading this I would think you are a labor law attorney. In theory, if there was collective bargaining between the players, thru an union, and the NCAA/universities, there could be limitations imposed on NIL. Just as the NBA and NFL players agreed to a salary...

I think congress will have a much tougher time than most understand. Because NIL was a US Supreme Court decision, any law that limit NIL in any way will immediately be taken to court. And the Supreme Court is not keen to allow the limitation of a right that they were the first to recognize...

Yeah something subtle like that. But we all know that tampering is basically not even a thing anymore because there is no real way to enforce whether a “school” contacted a player still under Scholarship or someone who is a booster of the school, or a current player reaching out to his friend...

Exactly. Save a bunch of money on the high school recruiting budget. In reality most college players give their schools 2 productive seasons. Few are good enough to play as freshman and if they are really good, they leave early for the league. So get them as transfers for 1-2 seasons and then...

When does ”recruiting” successful college players take over recruiting successful high school players as the primary way to form a roster? Why wait 2 years hoping you recruited the right player when you can just cherry pick the players you want at every position after seeing them play for 1-2...

NIL is nothing more than ordinary income. A real catalyst to NIL law is the fact that the IRS can now tax these payments unlike when payments were under the table. So federal and state income tax will apply at the appropriate levels.

UM can easily match this NIL deal if that will make the difference. Now if the young man is determined to play with Williams and be coached by Riley there is nothing that can make a difference. But assuming he is intelligent and understands how the portal works, he will listen to offers.

So let Pitt match the NIL deal. Nothing is stopping them.