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Message: [QUOTE="Rich, post: 4797185, member: 9018"] Someone around here brought up the deals that the legislature has cut with the Casinos as a possible source of NIL funding. This is not a completely crazy thought. I mean, you'd have collegiate athletes shilling for sports books....but.....hell, why not? What I'd do is, if I were in the legislature I'd get authority to approach the Mohegans and Mashantuckets and say something like, 'Hey listen, you know how we have a contract where you send us X per year of the top line slot proceeds? Well can you do us a favor and slice say 10 million off of that and instead of sending it to the General Fund bank account wire transfer it over here which is the home of our State University's NIL collective. You're not paying more you're just essentially cutting two separate checks. In exchange, the athletes will endorse your operations, perhaps even make live appearances on the casino sports book floor during perhaps NFL games or really any other time that doesn't conflict with their athletic or academic schedules.' It's really not an awful idea. [/QUOTE]