Power 5 commissioners insist Congress take action on NIL loophole
By Ethan Stone
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Power 5 conference commissioners claim certain boosters are hosting high school and transfer athletes with payments inaccurately labeled as NIL. They are encouraging congress to make this practice illegal.
Sports Illustrated obtained a letter sent to Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) outlining the claims.
“Problems have emerged where it appears boosters are inducing high school and potential transfer student-athletes to attend their favored universities with payments inaccurately labeled as NIL licenses, with no connection to the value of any endorsement or NIL activity,” the letter reads. “This kind of inducement was not what anyone had in mind when NIL was created, and federal legislation sponsored by members of both parties sought to prohibit the use of NIL as a recruiting inducement.”
Whether or not anything will come of these developments is unknown. Does this kind of business belong in college football?
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
