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Name, Image, & Likeness (NIL) at tOSU

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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'm certain that they have to report it to the university. Whether that would then make it publicly available to the public, I don't know. I do know that there's not that much chance of a national scandal erupting over a History professor's contract with Princeton University Press.
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I doubt professors have to report contract details to the university. They may have to report the activity and the type of organization they contract with in case of a possible conflict of interest down the road. I just don't see where they'd ever need to disclose financial numbers, since that's not the university's business. But professors take lucrative side gigs all the time - in my field many professors own and operate their own consulting company. I contract with them, and never have had details go to a university.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Exactly. In some cases it’s pretty easy to make the case of the chicken or egg coming first, but the fact that the chicken or egg _could_ come first is likely where the legal case would be made.

I would guess, however, schools are compiling NIL information. It’s in their benefit to do so to keep an eye on what may / may not become a compliance issue as well as being able to demonstrate to recruits what NIL possibilities exist with a program. That said, by compiling the information, and as ORD points out — at a public institution, likely opens them up to FOI for NIL details. How that’s handled with private schools? Who knows.
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What raised the question in my brain was exactly the press releases and stories from the university and its affiliates reporting (boasting?) that OSU student athletes are getting more $$$ than any other university.

More power to them… and the more the better… but, somebody with an axe to grind is going to get into the details of that (maybe by using FOI) and start the whole “where there’s smoke” routine.

It’s a whole other kind of compliance office that will emerge / evolve / develop.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I think this officially means 2002 will be my favorite year. Everything after NIL seems kinda tainted...which is fine, bc we have the means to compete still. But 2002 felt so pure.
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Pure and CFB is rather comical. I don’t think there was EVER a time where cheating/competitive advantage wasn’t a part of college football
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
I think this officially means 2002 will be my favorite year. Everything after NIL seems kinda tainted...which is fine, bc we have the means to compete still. But 2002 felt so pure.
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Lol. I have never once watched "amateur athletics" and thought "knowing the players don't get paid makes this so much more fun." The entertainment element of having a compelling product to watch is what interests me. If the players are all millionaires, I don't care. As long as they play for the team I love, are good at their sport and are decent as people, that is all that really matters to me. Don't get me wrong, I like to criticize prominent coaches whose lying and cheating is a leading cause of them raking in fame and fortune, especially those who do so without any consequences, but at the end of the day athletic talent has value.

I loved 2002 also, it will always be my favorite season. But not because of amateurism.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
That was after. And pure is relative.
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Not sure what it's relative to, as past players have been saying for years that they were getting "NIL" benefits, but they just weren't within NCAA(aka cheating). I guess Cris Carter admitting to taking money while in college was pure, or Eric Dickerson taking a gold Trans Am(and even more money while at SMU, and don't get me started on that program), Oklahoma under Barry Switzer years, USC under Pete Carroll, Ole Miss under Hugh Freeze, Free Shoes U under Bobby Bowden, I think you get the point as I could be typing for a VERY long time about how "pure" CFB was before NIL...:roll2::rofl:

jwinslow said:
Cfb is all about mystique, myth and religion (with the rivals being the unwashed heathens).

Nil busts up some of the lies we told ourselves.
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Bingo! Many CFB fans can no longer play the morality card and turn a blind eye to their program's doing inappropriate things to gain on field success.
 
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