And universities weren't allowed to give recruits money before NIL either, yet serious schools found a way to make it happen. Coaches had plausible deniability on all things of this sort, serious schools were the boosters, not the coaches. Coaches would come and go, the boosters remained and guess what they are still there.
It can't realistically come from the fan base. How is the fan base going to know who the coaches want allocate NIL money to? They going to go by who claims an offer on Rivals? You think before NIL, boosters were just randomly giving kids money and hoping it was people their school wanted? I know a lot of guys they want to pay and I just frequent message boards. You don't have to be a University employee to get information.
Which is why we're going to have to be smarter if we are going to compete, just like it has been historically.
Right, which tells you we probably have an NIL program and that it's pretty decent. It's possible everybody is just disorganized at this point and we got lucky, but this is a multi-billion dollar industry and the infrastructure that was used for making illegal payments earlier maps pretty easily onto what is needed to organize an NIL program. I would be shocked if most serious P5 schools didn't already have a pretty decent handle on NIL, even if they haven't figured out how to optimize it yet. Afer this past years recruiting class I am pretty sure our NIL program is more organized than most think . I don't know about you, but I was pleasantly surprised.
