NIL changed forever college footballallowing players for the first time to put money in their pockets without being chased by the NCAA.
How different schools and conferences were able to take advantage of the new NIL rules has been a hot topic around college football last year.
Ole Mademoiselle Head coach Lane Kiffin is the latest to explain how NIL has changed the game.
NIL in college football, “legalized cheating”
“If you have boosters deciding who they’re going to pay to come play and the coach isn’t involved, how does that work?” Kiffin said at SEC Media Days.
“They just pick who they want and tell you who to play?” And when they don’t play, what will it be like?
“I will say what people don’t say, as you know. So it’s like payroll in baseball: which teams win over a long period of time? Teams that have a high payroll and can pay players a lot. So we are in a situation that is no different from that.
“I’m sure other people have said it, I’ve said it from day one, you’ve legalized cheating, so get ready for the people with the most money to get the best players There you go. So that’s what it is.
NIL needs regulation – fast
Kiffin also compared college football’s NIL rules to professional sports.
“And as far as the CEO managing that, we’re not allowed in the current system to manage what he makes,” he said.
“We’re not there yet and I don’t know if we’ll ever get there, it’s exactly what I said it should be because that’s what every other professional sport does, and That’s what we are right now.”
Kiffin suggested the creation of a uniform rule around NIL and that the lack of sport-wide regulation has made things unnecessarily difficult.
“It wasn’t thought through at all and created a huge set of problems that I think, when most people thought about it from a coaching perspective, could have predicted this was going to happen,” Kiffin said .
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