From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 2:20:55 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:   
   > Bad news: the NIL proposal scheduled for a vote at the upcoming NCAA   
   Convention contains some specific conditions on NIL - namely:    
   > (a) It must be for work performed (although it doesn't say how much -   
   presumably, a photograph that the NIL provider can display somewhere would be   
   sufficient);    
   > (b) It cannot be contingent on the athlete enrolling in, or staying at, a   
   particular school; and    
   > (c) It cannot be contingent on athletic participation in any way.    
   > Note that (c) does not mean that the company can't restrict NIL to athletes;   
   what it means is, if a company makes an NIL deal with an athlete, it cannot   
   cut the deal if the athlete leaves the team for whatever reason, including   
   opting out of a    
   postseason game/tournament.   
      
   Of course, the NIL arrangements are nothing more than a ruse to allow big   
   money boosters to give bags of cash to    
   recruits that they used to give them under the table. There is no way any of   
   these recruits are providing services to these   
   companies that is worth what they are being paid. The NCAA is powerless to   
   stop it. There is nothing new about this.    
   Athletes have been getting paid under the table for years, legally and   
   illegally. When Kareem was at UCLA(As Lew Alcindor),   
   he wasn't on a scholarship. That allowed him to take a $40,000 a year "job" at   
   Universal Studios. $40,000 in the 1960s would   
   be worth close to a half a million in today's dollars. I used to live in   
   Columbus, Oh. I'd see the football players driving around   
   in some really nice cars. I remember working third trick at a 7/Eleven store   
   when Archie Griffin came in about 3am. He had    
   driven up in a Mark V. The local news media liked to remind us how his father   
   worked three jobs to support his family. I   
   seriously doubt his father paid for that car.   
      
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