[OutsiderFan]

Where the hell did this article come from? Someone sent me a full description of a Stanford NIL collective called Lifetime Cardinal, LLC, just last week, that is being run by Stanford alum Allen Thorpe.

How could a Chronicle writer not be aware of this? Or was this collective mentioned in the article, and the writer has no idea what it is or that the fact it exists completely undermines the entire premise of the story?

I don't have Chronicle access, so can't read the article, but Google tells me the Chronicle ran another NIL article that mentioned Lifetime Cardinal just two days before saying Stanford "isn't doing NIL."

I'm confused.

[OutsiderFan]

Where the hell did this article come from? Someone sent me a full description of a Stanford NIL collective called Lifetime Cardinal, LLC, just last week, that is being run by Stanford alum Allen Thorpe.

How could a Chronicle writer not be aware of this? Or was this collective mentioned in the article, and the writer has no idea what it is or that the fact it exists completely undermines the entire premise of the story?

I don't have Chronicle access, so can't read the article, but Google tells me the Chronicle ran another NIL article that mentioned Lifetime Cardinal just two days before saying Stanford "isn't doing NIL."

I'm confused.