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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4311288, member: 1329"] But again, how do you enforce it? How do you even gather evidence? Previously, booster activity was caught by the schools themselves essentially self-policing (or the occasional random FBI sting). The schools for a long time felt a compulsion to voluntarily cooperate, because they themselves ARE the system (the NCAA is just the collection of schools). This started flipping as some schools decided winning was more important than the NCAA itself, which had lost all of its credibility and public goodwill had shifted towards athlete rights and in a twisted sense the dirty schools had the moral high ground on that issue. But because amateurism was too important, they "designed" (aka hastily scrapped the previous guidelines they had written and just said basically do whatever you want) this NIL system so that the schools are outside of the deals and even more importantly the contact entirely. Boosters are working "with" the schools, but the schools are expressly not allowed to get into contact or negotiations. How are you going to catch anyone when your only entry into enforcement is prohibited from accessing the conversation? [/QUOTE]