I’m hoping come this off season, the NCAA will pull their collective heads out their ****s, & come up w/ cohesive parameters on this. It should’ve been regulated to events, commercial appearances, jersey sells, poster sells, etc. w/ a monetary cap across the board. That was the intended purpose (hence Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA & EA Sports for using his likeness w/o receiving a dime).
Now the reason U had those questions, albeit in gist, was b/c NO ONE KNOWS THE PARAMETERS. In my line of business, it is imperative that all contract discussions are free of ambiguity, and if something is not readily understood, the onus falls upon me to break it down in layman’s terms. W/ this NIL, it’s full of ambiguity, and the big schools or schools w/ active boosters, are fully taking advantage of it which doesn’t bode well for us. I was already kind of iffy on it just from what I was privy too, but w/ the NCAA just putting their hands up on this, I knew it would be all bad.
One last point: being that it’s well documented how we don’t have a single mindset when it comes to Miami athletics, the other thing I was afraid of was how fully vested we would be to take advantage of this. If the bagmen were our biggest obstacle, this would’ve been the perfect opp to schematically utilize boosters to help even the playing field. The problem? We have one booster who is tasked, as a fan, to try to get other boosters to join along AFTER our poor play on the field. All of this should’ve been done in the off season w/ all the hype around us.
