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The NCAA and its five power conferences have agreed to allow schools to directly pay players for the first time in the 100-plus-year history of college sports.... Berman said the settlement includes a "mechanism" that he believes will make it easier for schools to rein in the marketplace for third-party NIL deals. He declined to provide any further details. Several athletic directors told ESPN this week they were optimistic but uncertain about whether the settlement would give them enough legal room to regain control. "I think we have a chance right now to really reshape the model in the most meaningful way of any of our lifetimes, and maybe the most meaningful way there has ever been," said Whitman, the new Division 1 Council chair. When asked if he thought the settlement provided the tools the NCAA and its schools needed to take control back of the market for college athletes and add stability to the new world for college sports, Whitman said: "We'll find out." https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40206364/ncaa-power-conferences-agree-allow-schools-pay-players

Happy to see any G5 grow

It was totally cheating at the time $mut did it, when it wasn't allowed. They went beyond even what is allowed now. They used not only $$ to lure athletes to play for a program with no fans, but sports cars, and the promise of payments and housing and jobs for parents and extended family.

The NCAA will be going away soon and another entity will be formed "by FBS membership" to replace them as an oversight administration for FBS as a whole. Now is when G4's should be uniting as a voting block to get more seats at the admin table.

More so, think of all the effort that went into the SMU “death penalty” case. Turns out, SMU was simply ahead of the curve. What we used to call cheating was really just a business decision.