[Goose]

I will make the suggestion (and I'm sure it will be an unpopular one) that Stanford should peel off a billion dollars from their $40B endowment, invest it conservatively in securities returning 5%, and use the returns to fund NIL and athletics.  That would be a game changer.  Stanford could be a net winner in the portal/NIL game rather than a net loser.

I am going to modify your suggestion a bit. Stanford could take that 50 million a year and use it to house the homeless. That wouldn't advance Stanford's primary goal of educating students one iota but it might help clean up the El Camino. I think that would be much more useful than paying athletes to attend Stanford.

[Goose]

I will make the suggestion (and I'm sure it will be an unpopular one) that Stanford should peel off a billion dollars from their $40B endowment, invest it conservatively in securities returning 5%, and use the returns to fund NIL and athletics.  That would be a game changer.  Stanford could be a net winner in the portal/NIL game rather than a net loser.

I am going to modify your suggestion a bit. Stanford could take that 50 million a year and use it to house the homeless. That wouldn't advance Stanford's primary goal of educating students one iota but it might help clean up the El Camino. I think that would be much more useful than paying athletes to attend Stanford.