ok, so first let me first state, I have no fancy law degree, or business degree, or any kind of measurable intelligence in regards to the NIL concept whatsoever. However, after years of being a member of our beloved Husker family, I've realized one thing is for certain. We do have some folks with those measurables. No, im not being sarcastic. So it got me thinking, as we sit here, day after day, year after year, watching this "wild wild west" and CFB free agency run rampant and out of control, and you have coaches complaining left and right about tampering and lack of rules, etc right? Everyone just seems to shrug it off and throw their hands up and act all helpless, like "oh well, this is just the way it is, nothing we can do about it." Well maybe there is... So maybe someone one on these forums has an idea just brilliant enough to get the ball rolling. I have no clue, but you never know who is combing through these scrolls behind the scenes and may see a concept and take off running with it.
A few ideas...
1, Kids are still allowed to free use the portal still, however lets say, theyre not allowed to earn NIL until ONE full calendar year after being enrolled at current school. (May help curb the tampering aspect.)
2. Kids arent allowed to enter into any NIL deals until their sophomore year. (May curb the massive NIL money deals before even enrolling at a school.)
3. Perhaps make these legal adult student athletes sign contracts for these NIL collectives and add clauses into these NIL contracts stating "We'll pay you, but you have to stay at this school for X amount of years, (May curb the amount of companies getting burned by these kids just grabbing checks and then dipping out to another school because they were tampered with.)
So here are a few of my suggestions, take em or leave, like I said, I have no degree so I very well could just be talking out my keyster but perhaps one of you may have more beneficial ideas, so please feel free to share them. Perhaps these ideas are full of crap and maybe theyre not. Any I figured maybe we could have running thread of folks throwing out ideas and perhaps someone will have hit the nail right on the head and get the ball rolling to finally try and get some control of this beast which we've all loved for so long and desperately need to get control of, college athletics.
Feel free to share any ideas and hey maybe the key to saving college sports and controlling this NIL monster lies right within the mind of one of our brilliant Husker fans! GBR!
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