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It will be just like a job. Coaches will be able to tell players the average player at Alabama make $65,000 from NIL, with top players making $200,000+. If LSU players only average $45,000, with top players getting $150,000. It will be a no brainer. Go for the money especially if the player is from a low socioeconomic background.

Frank was just talking about Kramer and Thames. He said that they’re very close and that could play a role in Thames’ recruitment. He thinks it will come down between SLU and Mizzou, but thinks SLU has the edge with Kramer, plus Tate is his godfather.

No, I think it will be much worse. The people that did it under the table will find out legal ways to continue to do it, but legally. However, folks that would never have wanted to offer money to college kids are now going to start offering money to the big schools. Below is article about Miami football. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/florida-company-offers-540-k-worth-of-nil-endorsement-deals-to-all-miami-scholarship-football-players-183415305.html You can't tell me that this won't be an incentive for kids to attend Miami that other smaller football programs aren't going to get. I think that you believe that I'm against poor college scholarship athletes being able to make a few bucks. I'm not. I agree with all of the arguments about kids being able to use their names and likenesses, etc. I just don't like what I believe it will do to college sports. I always cheer against the big programs and for the underdog. I cheer for mid majors in college basketball. These rules, whether they're socially correct or not, will hurt smaller programs. I just don't like that outcome.

then somebody has to keep track of it. put it all on the student athlete. imo the only monitoring of this by someone else is that there is no shenanigans with ill gotten gains or immoral activity. if the player concerned can make a million dollars, more power to them. just do it above board, file their taxes and stay out of trouble and definitely dont bring the school into it. once i saw the school wasnt going to provide anything in this i couldnt care less any longer. just keep saint louis university out of it. that's all i want.

I don't understand the vitriol for this NLI stuff. This isn't designed to make every player a millionaire. Its designed to give them some spending money while giving them control of their own likeness which has been exploited by major corporations and schools in the past.

I anticipate prep school too

If we get Thames, who is I think is projected as a PG, and Kramer, who is a SG, I don’t think we will get Hughes. With his recruitment still not taking off, I wouldn’t be surprised if he decides to go to a prep school next.

We get Thames - that's what Travis does. He gets his dudes.

I think TJ Hargrove is the obvious answer because of his social media presence alone. A lot of college kids these days are like that. Sure, maybe there’s not a lot of people who would recognize him from his rim-rattling alley-oop dunks at Chiefetz, but I bet there’s plenty of local kids who would recognize him from his Instagram or his TikTok videos or even from his big pickup games at an outside court at some park. And that type of recognition is just as valuable to a potential “investor” as recognition on the court.

Add no-penalty transfers to all this mess and you've got.........a bigger mess.......

Given that when a school gets caught doing something wrong it also usually gets hit with "lack of institutional control" sanctions expecting schools to make sure there are no integrity compromises can only end badly.

And Carter made a good point about this a couple weeks ago, in the age of social media, certain guys are a lot better at marketing themselves, regardless of school size (TJ Hargrove says hello), where their online presence warrants NIL money just as much as their basketball talent.

The schools have to be 100% hands off on this. It is the only way they can avoid the "employer" label which would create the scenarios that would spin this whole thing out of control. Imo this will be all on the individual athletes to arrange their own deal with 3rd parties. The schools only concerns will be making sure there are no integrity conpromises. I.e not fixing games, being involved in illegal or unethical activities, etc.

In addition to the vintage design deals…and in a similar vein… I have been told that SLU Athletics will introduce authentic basketball jerseys for purchase this fall. The jerseys will come in two colors, white and blue, and will be essentially identical to the uniforms that the Men’s basketball team will wear when they take the court for the 2021-22 season. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are no examples yet. Or maybe I haven't seen enough of what has happened. I stand by my comment that Fred putting his name on a camp is an example of why some people wanted this to go through. I have no issue with someone using their name to put some money in their pocket that way. My issue is going to be, and this will happen, players choosing schools based on which program offers them the best package to monetize their NIL. This will happen. There's no doubt about it. If you think that players making their choice about what school to attend based upon who is going to offer the best financial package is a good thing, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I do not see it as a good thing for college basketball.