There is a discussion on the old ghost site that the Ivy League could resist Penn making use of a collective by making it ineligible for League championships. I think the League would do so at its legal peril and I would expect it not to happen.
Princeton was able to get Lee and Pierce paid last season. Brown paid Lilly and Nana. I agree that the league won’t do anything because a court challenge could destroy everything.
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The difference is that neither Princeton nor Brown tried to seek league approval for the practice to bring it out into the open.
Again, the league authorities have nothing to do with NIL. They don’t have the authority to approve or disapprove it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a booster writing a check or an official NIL collective writing the check. We’ve seen the first example several times recently, and we know that no team in the league has an actual collective yet. The league saying they don’t approve isn’t much different than them saying they don’t approve of a kid working at Goldman Sachs for the summer.
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The real question is whether Penn is lobbying for the Ivies to sign onto the House v. NCAA settlement so that team organized NILs can receive subsidies from the big money schools as we groom their talent for them.
The Ivies opted out of sharing profits with student athletes. What does “…team organized NILs can receive subsidies from the big money schools..” even mean? That’s not a real thing. You just made that up.
You obviously don’t understand the House settlement
Ohio State University isn’t subsidizing the Central Connecticut State NIL Fund, which is 2 guys with $100k.
The “salary cap” of the agreement will help Central Connecticut stay more competitive