ESPN put up a somewhat interesting article on NIL deals per school and what schools released info.
For all of Saban's calls for transparency Bama released nothing.
Unsurprisingly not only did LSU release nothing but got the state of Louisiana to pass a law protecting NIL deals from open records requests.
Kentucky passes a law that allows athletes to nullify NIL deals when they go pro and makes NIL contracts sealed documents.
ATM has 4.2 mill in NIL of which 3.4 goes to football.
Ohio state has 3 mill of which 2.7 goes to football
We have $879,000 in NIL for football but apparently with that excluding the 4 largest contracts for some reason. Softball was 2nd at like 257k.
Oregon told ESPN and the NCAA to fuck off on requesting NIL figures.
And this bit of genius from the secretary of education to top it off, he'slooking at it through title IX:
""Some of the concerns I have is that it's going to be the male athletes getting paid and [the] just-as-committed, just-as-hard-working women athletes, not. ... Universities must adapt and create structures that are monitoring this, that are communicating what they're doing to proactively create equity," he said.
Genius... ya'll tried that once with facilities donations from private donors and the courts told yall title IX can't be applied to private donations.....these are private contracts.....good lord . You can require the schools to provide equal access to NIL opportunities, but you can't make private entities donate money to sports that they don't want to.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34739678/following-nick-saban-jimbo-fisher-nil-spat-schools-answer-call-transparency