(05-10-2022 09:18 AM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 08:55 AM)JMURocks Wrote:  NCAA looking to punish NIL collectives used as recruiting tools

Quote:Despite the clarity coming 10 months into the NIL era, the guidelines are meant to be retroactive. According to the guidelines, the NCAA enforcement staff is given the freedom to investigate those who egregiously violated bylaws in the past.

https://www.si.com/college/syracuse/recr...s-syracuse

So, translated, this means the NCAA is so upset about Alabama, Ohio State, et. al taking advantage of the NIL “non-rules” the NCAA will give Kent State the death penalty.

(Apologies to Jerry Tarkanian’s famous quote about the NCAA being so mad at Kentucky they’ll give Cleveland State another year of probation.)

I get the parallel/humor, but these "non-rules" were actually existing rules the collectives were just hoping to ignore and work around. There have been NCAA rules about boosters contacting/recruiting prospects for a long time. It looks like maybe NCAA decided to grow a spine and enforce their rules. This probably won't prevent collectives from rewarding players already at a given school, but it could reduce their involvement in recruiting.

Quote:Any booster or booster-led collective that has been found to have associated with a prospect about recruiting—on another college team or in high school—will be found to have violated NCAA rules, and the booster’s school is at risk of sanctions, Colorado athletic director Rick George told SI last week. George serves on the NCAA NIL working group.