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I think the more likely scenario is that your pro-college team oversigns, but instead of running players off or asking them to greyshirt, teams will tell the less highly recruited players that in lieu of a scholarship, the car dealership down the street will have a NIL deal for the player that exceeds the cost of tuition if they walk onto the team.

There is still the issue that recruited walk-ons are counters if they play in a game, so I suspect a lot of these players will get one year to prove they belong and be told that they won't be able to enter a game because the team is up to 85, and that they are therefore off entering the portal.

Note that while many of the deals described will be hard to prevent, pay for play (and thus NIL for play) is still not legal, so the NCAA could still sanction schools that try to skirt the rules by taking advantage of the NIL loophole.  Of course, this will eventually be challenged in court... and who knows what the courts will rule.

BC

[BostonCard]

I think the more likely scenario is that your pro-college team oversigns, but instead of running players off or asking them to greyshirt, teams will tell the less highly recruited players that in lieu of a scholarship, the car dealership down the street will have a NIL deal for the player that exceeds the cost of tuition if they walk onto the team.

There is still the issue that recruited walk-ons are counters if they play in a game, so I suspect a lot of these players will get one year to prove they belong and be told that they won't be able to enter a game because the team is up to 85, and that they are therefore off entering the portal.

Note that while many of the deals described will be hard to prevent, pay for play (and thus NIL for play) is still not legal, so the NCAA could still sanction schools that try to skirt the rules by taking advantage of the NIL loophole.  Of course, this will eventually be challenged in court... and who knows what the courts will rule.

BC