I really don't know where to put this one, but i have a question on what is legal and what is not with boosters?? It seems like the pay to play mantra is the way things are going, but what rules are there now for boosters. I know in the past if you had players over for dinner or something similar it was a violation. Are there any rules? what can the NCAA actually enforce??

With NIL it doesn't seem like there are any rules. Or they aren't going to be enforced.

Indiana fans have been Venmo-ing potential recruits to try to sway them. I think it’s safe to say there are no longer any rules whatsoever.

bluegrouse wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 3:47 pm

Indiana fans have been Venmo-ing potential recruits to try to sway them. I think it’s safe to say there are no longer any rules whatsoever.

If that's the case, why isn’t our athletic department allocating budget for NIL specifically? Those NCAA tournament credits (for example) could be used to keep the train rolling. Why do boosters have to foot the bill for everything?

OrangeCountyAggie wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 3:56 pm

bluegrouse wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 3:47 pm

Indiana fans have been Venmo-ing potential recruits to try to sway them. I think it’s safe to say there are no longer any rules whatsoever.

If that's the case, why isn’t our athletic department allocating budget for NIL specifically? Those NCAA tournament credits (for example) could be used to keep the train rolling. Why do boosters have to foot the bill for everything?

Because the school still cannot specifically pay the players. But they cannot tell the players that they can’t make money outside the school using their name, image, or likeness. There are still federal laws like title IX which have to be adhered to.

The player can't wear any Aggie gear in any print, television or social media ads. That's it. Literally anything goes. Pay a kid a million bucks for 5 minutes of work.

aggies22 wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 4:13 pm

The player can't wear any Aggie gear in any print, television or social media ads. That's it. Literally anything goes. Pay a kid a million bucks for 5 minutes of work.

I bought a shirt from the collective from Virginia tech and it has the “VT” logo. No player on the shirt but it does have the logo so I’m a bit confused about that angle.

I work for a place that makes payments to certain college athletes.

The college athletes are allegedly a part of our marketing campaigns (which doesn't make much sense in the first place), but last I checked, not a single college athlete had as much as sent a picture of themselves with our logo to our marketing department.

It's all a bit of a ruse.

Everybody but the school itself can pay anyone for anything at anytime

bluegrouse wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 3:47 pm

Indiana fans have been Venmo-ing potential recruits to try to sway them. I think it’s safe to say there are no longer any rules whatsoever.

We're in the age where you have to pay a 5-star recruit even to accept an invitation to visit. This is likely due to the number of schools they are capped at taking official visits to. But if the NCAA did away with that rule, all hell would likely break loose.

I think the only rules now are that boosters cannot arrange escort/prostitute services openly to recruits, except for a few counties in Nevada - as long as the recruits are 18, or older. Other than that, anything goes.

The recruits have all become that infamous player that is involved in so many professional baseball transactions

Does the athlete have to pay self-employment tax on this "earned income"?

Can a booster basically leave a brown envelope full of Benjamins in a player's locker?

Or does it have be routed through a collective? Seems like the collective is just an informal or semiformal organization of boosters with a loose affiliation with the sponsoring school. Apparently affiliated enough to appropriate a school's athetic logo.

Should I donate to the school's athetic department with at least some funding oversight and transparency, or to an NIL collective where I just have to trust the goodwill of the boosters to make sound, economical NIL investments? Any accountability to donors within a collective?

All of this makes me want to give to and support non-revenue sports a whole lot more (which I think I'll do).

Women's soccer and volleyball are just as enjoyable to me as football, so I'll focus my giving there.

trevordude wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 4:53 pm

Everybody but the school itself can pay anyone for anything at anytime

Sounds like this might be changing soon now as well.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... hletes-nil

aggieref wrote: ↑

April 18th, 2024, 9:33 am

trevordude wrote: ↑

April 17th, 2024, 4:53 pm

Everybody but the school itself can pay anyone for anything at anytime

Sounds like this might be changing soon now as well.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... hletes-nil

what I see in that article - players will be able to get paid for
appearing on the cover of the media guide
showing up at coaches show
going on booster "road trip" meetings across the state.
among other things.

https://clickit.utah.gov/car-seats-seat ... n/booster/

Hope this is helpful.