[msqueri]

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.

Agree with you that hopefully the current NIL landscape is a blip on a longer trajectory toward a more rationalized system and realize the "wild, wild Southeast Conference" was a fun rhetorical flourish, but for what it's worth something that's been interesting about NIL so far is that an analysis by conference heading into the season found that the SEC was bringing up the rear in NIL deals:

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/opendorse-b...-likeness/

A year prior the Big 10 was also found to be the top NIL dog by a separate analysis:

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/big-ten-lea...-activity/

I'm not sure what the ground truth is as it's early and still opaque days when it comes to this landscape. But it seems clear the Big 10 is a very major player.

[msqueri]

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.

Agree with you that hopefully the current NIL landscape is a blip on a longer trajectory toward a more rationalized system and realize the "wild, wild Southeast Conference" was a fun rhetorical flourish, but for what it's worth something that's been interesting about NIL so far is that an analysis by conference heading into the season found that the SEC was bringing up the rear in NIL deals:

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/opendorse-b...-likeness/

A year prior the Big 10 was also found to be the top NIL dog by a separate analysis:

https://www.on3.com/nil/news/big-ten-lea...-activity/

I'm not sure what the ground truth is as it's early and still opaque days when it comes to this landscape. But it seems clear the Big 10 is a very major player.