[cardcrimson]

Thanks for sharing this Burger.   It does paint both Tara and Haley Jones in a positive light, which is great for Stanford.  It's too bad that the NIL rule came about after Katie Ladecky decided to leave the womens swim team.   The NIL rules would have allowed her to stay on the Stanford team and still earn those 7 figure deals.  The cooperatives came about as a way to manipulate the intent of NIL and enable it to be used for recruiting purposes.   I continue to believe/hope that it will be reigned in and restructured, but right now it's the wild, wild west...or maybe the wild, wild Southeast Conference.

I may be wrong, Katie enrolled at Stanford in 2016, turned pro in 2018, finished her coursework in 2020 and graduated in 2021. Don't think NIL made any difference to Katie's situation, even with it, she would have used up her four years at Stanford before she made the move to Florida. She is not swimming for the Gators NCAA team, she's practicing with the graduate team . . . .

Here's an article on the apparent reasoning.
https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/09/22/k...rida-nesty

[cardcrimson]

Thanks for sharing this Burger.   It does paint both Tara and Haley Jones in a positive light, which is great for Stanford.  It's too bad that the NIL rule came about after Katie Ladecky decided to leave the womens swim team.   The NIL rules would have allowed her to stay on the Stanford team and still earn those 7 figure deals.  The cooperatives came about as a way to manipulate the intent of NIL and enable it to be used for recruiting purposes.   I continue to believe/hope that it will be reigned in and restructured, but right now it's the wild, wild west...or maybe the wild, wild Southeast Conference.

I may be wrong, Katie enrolled at Stanford in 2016, turned pro in 2018, finished her coursework in 2020 and graduated in 2021. Don't think NIL made any difference to Katie's situation, even with it, she would have used up her four years at Stanford before she made the move to Florida. She is not swimming for the Gators NCAA team, she's practicing with the graduate team . . . .

Here's an article on the apparent reasoning.
https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/09/22/k...rida-nesty