Bookmarked Ex-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer calls NIL collectives “cheating” by .
The discussion concluded with Meyer telling a second-hand story of a program that lost a recruit due to NIL. “I know very closely firsthand, I had a buddy who was recruiting a guy. He had it [the commitment], and it was over,” Meyer said. “Then, all of a sudden, another school offered him $500,000. He went back to his collective and said, ‘I need $500,000.’ They said, ‘We don’t have it,’ and they lost the player.”
In every single NIL story like this, the facts are presented assuming a shared understanding that stuff like this is Bad, without question or examination. Why is it bad? For whom? Be explicit, please.
I obviously know what the rote answers are supposed to be but just once I’d like the interviewer to say, “actually, that sounds cool as hell for the kid who finessed half a million out of some dumb rich car dealers!”
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