Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
No, they couldn't because the NCAA had rules that restricted NIL type activities. Remember Todd Gurley? Remember Tyrell Pryor and Ohio State's tattoo "scandal"? You could not sign autographs for money, get paid for product endorsements, trade autographs for tats, etc. You could barely work a summer job because some booster "might" pay you for a fake job. The reason we have this NIL mess is that the NCAA refused to evolve.
Sure they could. There was never anything illegal about an NIL deal so the NCAA could never actually have stopped it. Oh yes, if the deal had come from a booster of the school they could have levied sanctions on the school. But if it was from just some random business the only thing the NCAA could really do was to have taken away the eligibility of the player. But the NCAA never had authority to take away the money or the deal itself.