New Era of Portal Recruiting?

De Laura WSU QB is in the portal

Not happening. They already have overrated Bo Nix.

I wonder if this NIL nonsense could be improved by adding some minimal qualifications before being eligible to receive NIL money. For example, one must play a full season, consisting of snaps in X% of the games, before you're eligible to receive NIL money.

If the idea is that people should be able to market their name, then there should be some basis for ensuring that name is marketable, and it certainly doesn't pass the smell test if somebody is making bank coming right out of high school as an unknown, or riding the pine their first few years.

If we're going to pay to play, at least make the player earn it with their play first, after earning playing time. And maybe more schools can afford to play the money game if it's just restricted to those players on the roster who are playing regularly.

I dunno, something has to be done here because where we're heading clearly isn't sustainable...

That sounds a lot like collusion. Not sure the Supreme Court will be down with that at all. Who are you to decide to collude with others to restrict someone's pay?  Would you want a group of companies getting together and deciding that jimbeav is only worth $50,000 a year, and no one can pay him more? wtf man, the Supreme court is going to have none of that idea.

Justice Kavanaugh: Kavanaugh was particularly aggressive in his questioning of NCAA lawyers. “It does seem … schools are conspiring with competitors—agreeing with competitors, let’s say that—to pay no salaries for the workers who are making the school billions of dollars on the theory that consumers want the schools to pay their workers nothing,” Kavanaugh said during the March 31 proceedings. “And that just seems entirely circular and even somewhat disturbing.”  

and ""n his opinion, Kavanaugh seemed to invite more legal challenges to the NCAA’s caps on all forms of compensation for athletes, not just those tethered to education, which was the narrower focus of this particular Supreme Court case. “Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate,” Kavanaugh wrote. “And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The NCAA is not above the law.”

There are ways around this, but they involve Federal solutions.  There is nothing that one school or a group of schools or even a state can do.  You need to get a President, Representative or Senator to pick this up and run with it.  If you ran on a platform that included fixing the NIL issues, maybe that could help get you elected in a district that includes a school or a rabid fan base outside of the Deep South that does not want to have to pay millions to field a competitive team each year.

So please contribute to my PAC.  Together, we can fix this.