[Langdude]

Can someone explain to me how Stanford's administration is responsible for "dithering" with NIL, when by its nature, NIL is suppose to be completely separate from the university?

I mean there are a lot of worthy complaints to be levied at Muir and co. for what they are in charge of, but I don't see how they can be fingered for weak NIL efforts. Those are all about outside boosters and whatever financial resources they can drum up for athletes by whatever means they can.

What am I missing?

I believe it was because he said specifically that Stanford would not be using NIL money to attract recruits, or something like that. In other words, even though it is not Stanford that would be paying the students directly, he has made it sound like Stanford would be discouraging such activity. At least that is what the rhetoric sounds like.

What is ironic (as BC has noted in another thread about Muir's poor job performance on several fronts) is that, also under Muir's watch, Stanford did accept money from families for non-athletes to attend Stanford to "play" sports.

-m

[Langdude]

Can someone explain to me how Stanford's administration is responsible for "dithering" with NIL, when by its nature, NIL is suppose to be completely separate from the university?

I mean there are a lot of worthy complaints to be levied at Muir and co. for what they are in charge of, but I don't see how they can be fingered for weak NIL efforts. Those are all about outside boosters and whatever financial resources they can drum up for athletes by whatever means they can.

What am I missing?

I believe it was because he said specifically that Stanford would not be using NIL money to attract recruits, or something like that. In other words, even though it is not Stanford that would be paying the students directly, he has made it sound like Stanford would be discouraging such activity. At least that is what the rhetoric sounds like.

What is ironic (as BC has noted in another thread about Muir's poor job performance on several fronts) is that, also under Muir's watch, Stanford did accept money from families for non-athletes to attend Stanford to "play" sports.

-m