Clemson football: 3 disturbing things we will see as a result of NIL

This will boil over into recruiting

The NCAA made sure in its ‘interim NIL policy’ to stress the importance that these NIL payments should not cross over into the realm of recruiting, but how will it not?

The NCAA isn’t going to monitor this closely and there’s no way with its current guidelines in place- which basically just leave it to the athlete, the university, the conference and the individual state to dictate their procedures- that it can even begin to identify potential abusers.

This is going to boil over into recruiting, whether the NCAA has officially ‘allowed’ for it to, or not.

If a 5-star QB is considering Clemson football, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State, wouldn’t it make sense for him to look closely at which situation will allow him to profit most off his NIL?

What’s going to stop a local car dealership owner in Tuscaloosa from going to that 5-star quarterback and telling him that he’ll pay $30,000 in endorsements if he comes to Alabama? What’s to stop that 5-star QB from making a trip to Athens and telling that car dealership owner there that Tuscaloosa is offering him $30,000 but he’ll come to Athens for $45,000?

The point? There’s no way to monitor this and we’re going to see boosters, alumni, fans and likely even institutions abuse the system. Maybe it won’t happen at first as everyone is still learning, but it won’t be long until it’s running rampant- similar to the College Basketball scandals we’ve seen in the past few years- and the NCAA has no clue how to even begin to “promote fairness” in this new world.

In the end, it’s great for athletes that they’ll now be able to profit from NIL, but there are clearly many more questions than answers at this point and there’s no way in the world that we’re trusting the NCAA to get the process right.