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agree that the school should not be able to make money off by sullivan79

the player's NIL; however, to let the player then go out on his own to profit is where this all starts to smell. It allows for unregulated payments from unscrupulous boosters that now have a free way in to put cash in the player's pocket. This is how I envision it happening:

Player deciding between 2 schools. Large car dealer/booster of school 1 has cash to pay to entice the player to school 1. Boosters of school 2 can't match Booster of school 1 and so player goes to school 1. This is not what college football should look like. Boosters buying players for bogus NIL contracts where the player will do nothing to get the $$ except go to school 1.

Maybe I'm totally off on this but isn't this the likely scenario that will be played out moving forward under the NIL model?