Jim Harbaugh: Michigan football 'not going to pay recruits to sign here'
“I’ve said this before but we’re going to still maintain that this is going to be a transformational experience, not a transactional experience,” Harbaugh said. “What that literally means exactly is we’re not going to pay signing bonuses for players to come onto the team. We’re not going to pay recruits to sign here. When they get here and they do well, they’re going to profit pretty, pretty good here — off the jersey sales and other examples. Simply put, that’s how I feel about it and what our policy is here. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe it’s not the way to do it.”
Despite that declaration, Harbaugh did say NIL is good for athletes to profit off of their own likeness while enrolled in school.
“Before we jump to how it can be a negative or exploited in a bad way, as we all know, human nature, that’s something that is definitely a possibility,” Harbaugh said. “But I think we can all agree — take jersey sales, for example, or T-shirts, memorabilia, those kinds of things that every school has, every school has the bookstore or the shop where fans can go and buy their gear. It makes sense that the player whose number is on that jersey, or name is on that jersey, should share in that revenue. That example right there, I think, we all agree on. And also to profit off their name, their image and their likeness, I support them. You just support anybody’s ability to do that. That’s all in the positive light and the way we’re approaching things here at Michigan.”
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Apparently a lot of schools when you are talking about opportunities for NIL money......
