[81alum]

Or be the Texas Tech WBB team $25K each

I can't wrap my head around this one. The NIL stuff I mostly get, even if I find some annoying. The NCAA shot itself in the foot over stupid rules that someone couldn't make money off of their own NIL. But the Texas Tech deal (and those of their ilk that seem to be popping up in football, especially) is simply getting paid to play--a disleveling of the playing field.

Right.  It is a bunch of donors giving them money.  There isn't really much of a pretense that it is related to advertising using their NIL.  Pretty open corruption--whether legal or not.

[81alum]

Or be the Texas Tech WBB team $25K each

I can't wrap my head around this one. The NIL stuff I mostly get, even if I find some annoying. The NCAA shot itself in the foot over stupid rules that someone couldn't make money off of their own NIL. But the Texas Tech deal (and those of their ilk that seem to be popping up in football, especially) is simply getting paid to play--a disleveling of the playing field.

Right.  It is a bunch of donors giving them money.  There isn't really much of a pretense that it is related to advertising using their NIL.  Pretty open corruption--whether legal or not.