I think they're taking the "all of the above" approach without much regard to what other entities survive. Personally, and I'm not a big enough UConn person as a graduate school alum, I would rather the direct approach to NIL donation rather than donating to a website which will pay other entities. This all goes back to the charity issue. How much goes to outflow to salaries and staff and how much goes to the stated goal. With places like forums and writers it starts to look a whole less lean than it was before for what is, essentially, a fundraising operation. It starts to look like a vehicle for the organizers to become important... which frankly a NIL pool has to be that because otherwise why would the organizer devote that time... but that's where you have to be careful. If your goal is to fundraise to the NIL fund you want a very lean organization. If you want to raise money for some nobody's fiefdom, and anybody who builds a fiefdom on my money is a nobody, then you can do that as well.
Once they start to look like a traditional business which spends money making itself look important rather than a shallow fundraising arm the alarm bells start going off because the percentage that goes to the "cause" is going to drop.
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What I want from a NIL fund is a very shallow (small) organization that prints out a monthly newsletter talking about its activities and is very open about its staffing and skunkworks. Honestly, not much more than that. I would want a list of people (positions, not names) who are drawing salaries and the amount spent to that end.
