Yeah, just let 18 year old kids get taken advantage of by shady agents and other handlers, especially those without strong parental support.
.......honest to god........
Not the schools’ problem. Honestly. Kids wanted to be able to get NIL money. They got it. Now deal with the good, the bad and the ugly. Look this is not some kid getting $100 for selling a music video on line or even getting a cushy job in the off season at the local car dealership, or getting paid for his artwork or heaven forbid, getting paid for unloading trucks at a local company owned by an alum. The NCAA outlawed all that stuff and it was stupid to do that. But these are essentially bribes. No standards, no real requirements to do anything. My advice to the schools would be stay away. Don’t ask, don’t tell. These are private deals. And what are they going to do anyway? First time they try to set a standard of some kind, even regulate agents, we are back where we were. What do you mean I can only get NIL through a registered guy? That nice Mr. Bulger offered me twice what those schmoo agents did and he didn’t even ask for a cut.
Seriously, what do you want them to do? And shouldn’t they do the same for the life sciences major who gets a job at Jackson labs and discovers a cure for cancer that Pfizer claims the patent on? Or the kid that gets a job at the local pizza joint to make a few bucks? These are essentially, if not bribes, “outside employment.” Just as they don’t interfere with some freshman who gets an off campus job at the local pizza joint, they shouldn’t interfere here. In fact, the kid working for minimum wage slining pies probably need MORE support than a guy getting $50000 or $100,000 or more a year with no tuition, room, board and book expenses.
