re: Urban Meyer believes NIL in college football has evolved into cheating

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If you're a woman basketball player like the great girl from Iowa and they want to put her on a billboard and pay her, they should be able to do that," Meyer said. "But that's not what happened. What's happened is the arms race of collecting money from donors and the donors are simply paying players. That's what I understand is happening, and I don't like that."

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I like how the only tangible difference in these two scenarios is the player gets paid more in the second scenario. Purely rooted out of jealousy and or greed.

Urban being the messenger on this is just another layer of comedy.

There are certainly issues with the current model, but most of not all of them are related to the transfer portal, not NIL. It’s funny that people make NIL the downfall of society, when all the the things they don’t like about NIL are actually a cause of the portal rules and not the ability for players to get paid