Chew on this NIL deal

[JMV JustMyView]

The Lady Dukes travel ball organization has announced an innovative partnership with Win Reality, a virtual reality sports technology company based in Texas, that will provide selected softball players with NIL deals upwards of $25,000.
https://twitter.com/ExtraInningSB/st...aMgA5wn4qXOpGQ

[RaginCajun77]

NIL deals upwards of $25,000 --->travel ball organization, something smells like 3-day old fish.

[VObserver]

The Lady Dukes travel ball organization has announced an innovative partnership with Win Reality, a virtual reality sports technology company based in Texas, that will provide selected softball players with NIL deals upwards of $25,000.
https://twitter.com/ExtraInningSB/st...aMgA5wn4qXOpGQ

This is an interesting and dangerous precedent. This will be used in all travel ball sports to influence or control where kids go to school. See AAU basketball for rampant examples. Look for the shoe and apparel companies to spread beyond basketball and football in their business of influencing "amateur" athletes.

I can foresee Lady Dukes girls who get NIL money from this source to end up at OU, Texas, Texas A&M and other big money programs, who now have a path to funnel money to recruits through willing accomplices in the sports business.

[KajunKrazy]

The Lady Dukes travel ball organization has announced an innovative partnership with Win Reality, a virtual reality sports technology company based in Texas, that will provide selected softball players with NIL deals upwards of $25,000.
https://twitter.com/ExtraInningSB/st...aMgA5wn4qXOpGQ

Isn't NIL a college thing? If your paying a travel ball team not affiliated with an NCAA sanctioned sport aren't you just paying athletes kind of like professionals?

[CajunVic]

Isn't NIL a college thing? If your paying a travel ball team not affiliated with an NCAA sanctioned sport aren't you just paying athletes kind of like professionals?

If so, the. Do you lose your amateur status?

[cjr3888]

If so, the. Do you lose your amateur status?

Do not lose amateur status. At least not yet since no organization (NCAA, LHSAA, etc) has done anything to try and get a handle on this.

"You legalized cheating so get ready for the people that have the most money to get the best players and there you have it" ~Lane Kiffin

[LifeTimeCajun]

Isn't NIL a college thing? If your paying a travel ball team not affiliated with an NCAA sanctioned sport aren't you just paying athletes kind of like professionals?

Semi pro sports is now anything other than professional sports. Its all corrupt

[Cajun Monkee]

Maybe I'm missing the boat and its not an apt comparison, but I wish the national media was as upset about the effects NIL will have on college sports as it is about how Saudi Arabia and the LIV golf tour thing will siphon golfers away from the PGA.

At the end of the days, its about who has the most money.

[CajunVic]

I have been looking for a decent article written in layman's vernacular to describe how NIL came to be from a legal standpoint. Here is a pretty good one for anyone wishing to learn:

https://www.anylaw.com/media/2022/07...ne-year-later/

[Turbine]

I have been looking for a decent article written in layman's vernacular to describe how NIL came to be from a legal standpoint. Here is a pretty good one for anyone wishing to learn:

https://www.anylaw.com/media/2022/07...ne-year-later/

Well presented.