Great article! When I heard what Chip said, I was so disappointed in him. The athletes work so hard year round, they deserve some way to make some extra cash. I like that the Department of Compliance will be involved. I still remember Donnie Edwards being punished for something that wasn’t his fault. So many of our student athletes come to UCLA without the resources that others have. Instead of making their lives more difficult, we should do all that is possible to help them earn extra money. I think we can all agree that it isn’t cheap living in Westwood!
I agree with Chip completely. We are better than that to "pay" players to come to UCLA. Players should be coming here to rep the UCLA brand and play for UCLA (in basketball or football or other sports), not for the NIL deals that they can get.
If those things are working together, great. But we should not be "weaponizing" NIL opportunities in recruiting. That can be for other schools to do.
Chip is 100% right on this one. There is absolutely nothing virtuous about weaponizing NIL for recruiting. It goes entirely against the concept of amateurism when one person can be bought and sold like a free agent. College sports fans need to be weary of this NIL stuff. There needs to be clear boundaries and complete prohibition on use of NIL to influence where a player choose to go to school. The rules and policies should also be designed to not allow any particular schools to have any advantages over others. I also believe there should be caps on how much NIL money these players should have direct access to. Anything more than a modest amount should be mandated into like a savings account
Great article! When I heard what Chip said, I was so disappointed in him. The athletes work so hard year round, they deserve some way to make some extra cash. I like that the Department of Compliance will be involved. I still remember Donnie Edwards being punished for something that wasn’t his fault. So many of our student athletes come to UCLA without the resources that others have. Instead of making their lives more difficult, we should do all that is possible to help them earn extra money. I think we can all agree that it isn’t cheap living in Westwood!
I agree with Chip completely. We are better than that to "pay" players to come to UCLA. Players should be coming here to rep the UCLA brand and play for UCLA (in basketball or football or other sports), not for the NIL deals that they can get.
If those things are working together, great. But we should not be "weaponizing" NIL opportunities in recruiting. That can be for other schools to do.
Chip is 100% right on this one. There is absolutely nothing virtuous about weaponizing NIL for recruiting. It goes entirely against the concept of amateurism when one person can be bought and sold like a free agent. College sports fans need to be weary of this NIL stuff. There needs to be clear boundaries and complete prohibition on use of NIL to influence where a player choose to go to school. The rules and policies should also be designed to not allow any particular schools to have any advantages over others. I also believe there should be caps on how much NIL money these players should have direct access to. Anything more than a modest amount should be mandated into like a savings account