If you know where the line is drawn on NIL rules and what is or isn’t an NCAA violation, you are a member of a profoundly exclusive club.
In all, Ruiz has pledged to spend at least $10 million on NIL deals, and it’s presumable that the NCAA sanctions against Miami have as much to do with a warning shot over his lavish influence as any direct violation of the rules.The college sports governing body claimed the dinner comprised “impermissible contact” and a recruiting “inducement.”
You can freely write a contract for nearly a million dollars — or, in some instances much higher, as Florida notoriouslyathletes to your alma mater with a chef-cooked dinner.turned the saga into a TikTok video mocking the NCAAKatie Meier, Miami’s women’s basketball coach, served a three-game suspension after it was discovered that she facilitated a meeting between the booster and social media stars.
The Hurricanes’ women’s hoops program was also fined $5,000 plus 1 percent of its budget — in other words, ashtray money for someone like Ruiz or another booster to reimburse through other channels.The whole charade feels like an invisible fence that shocks dogs when they roam a few inches too far. Ruiz has been so overt in his sponsorship of Miami athletes that the NCAA buzzed the program and hit them with a level of sanctions that will hardly serve as a strong deterrent for anyone else.And why did the NCAA make something as insignificant as a dinner its hill to die on?
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