(05-10-2022 08:53 AM)mpurdy22 Wrote:  Perspective:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/terencemoor...192d393604

"...By last summer, NCAA officials saw the inevitable, which was legal challenges they would lose. They sighed, and then they lifted their ban on what became known as NILs, even though they knew their move would lead to what became known as collectives. They knew those collectives would turn college football and basketball into the wild, wild west (east, north and south), with athletes going to the highest bidder to create a poor man’s NFL and NBA.

Still, NCAA officials pretended they could do something to keep the mid-majors from vanishing due to all of this and the middle-to-lower teams in power conferences from becoming irrelevant.

You may laugh some more."

I disagree with that. I think a lot of ADs and Presidents were blindsided by what happened with NILs. Maybe some foresaw that, but the slowness with which most schools have moved tells me most were surprised. I certainly never heard talk about "collectives." I was surprised just how big the dollars were.

Its funny to hear them quote Saban saying they would not use it to recruit players and then he was the first coach I heard brag about it, how his QB who had never played would get 7 figures in an NIL deal.