[ca245]

Good for the HBCU, but when an  NIL is conditioned on the student-athlete (SA) playing for a specific school, it is saying your NIL alone is worth X dollars, but if you play for this school, it is worth (X + nX) dollars where n is a very large multiplier. In effect, the SA is being paid nX dollars to play for the school. This smacks of pay-for-play — I.e., professionalism. Down the road, certain football factory schools will have the money to play this NIL game better than HBCU schools or Stanford can afford (or be willing) to play.

[ca245]

Good for the HBCU, but when an  NIL is conditioned on the student-athlete (SA) playing for a specific school, it is saying your NIL alone is worth X dollars, but if you play for this school, it is worth (X + nX) dollars where n is a very large multiplier. In effect, the SA is being paid nX dollars to play for the school. This smacks of pay-for-play — I.e., professionalism. Down the road, certain football factory schools will have the money to play this NIL game better than HBCU schools or Stanford can afford (or be willing) to play.