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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Volatility_rivals135605" data-source="post: 132063421" data-attributes="member: 1476288">Technically an NIL deal can ask a player to post something on their Twitter or Instagram, a retweet, a like, a video clip..  Notice how a few WVU players have received a Ford vehicle from a Ford Dealership owned by a WVU booster.  They post a short video about it...  Thats the new age of internet marketing.I understand the original theorized application, but the real world application is very different.  Is it used to pay players to sign and play, Yes, in a round about way.  $100k for a 2min marketing video clip posted on their twitter...  However, how much do professional athletes make for a 1min commercial appearance?  Much much more...Obviously its being abused, esp with no policies on tampering and wide open transfers... Tho  I dont see how its going to blow up in anyones faces, thats already happened..... happened to the NCAA for breaking the law for these many years.  NCAA should have been more insightful and structured NIL many years ago when Billions were made from video games that used player's nil, so every player would benefit from it, similar to a unionized or profit sharing structure.  We went from one extreme to the other, but there is a middle ground.Keep in mind, many of these high-end players come from very poor single parent households.  A player able to send home just $12K-$24k per year to their single mom raising 2-3 other brothers & sisters is a huge deal to them.  I dont think that changes one's character or perspective about their passion for the game. We both miss how it used to be, but if we are both being honest, how it used to be was both illegal and flawed, and people still paid players. Now its just out in the open.The question we need to be asking here is how do we leverage it more efficiently and strategically than others to offer us an Edge or mitigate disadvantages.  If we refuse to take advantage of it, we'll only widen the disparity of talent.</blockquote>

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