Throwdown Thursday | What is NIL Go? | Episode 636

What is NIL Go? Shout out to friend of the show Ross Delinger, Yahoo Sports • The (unofficial) goal of NIL Go is quite clear: prevent booster payments to athletes that, for four years now, have been masquerading as commercial and endorsement deals. • How Deloitte and the new enforcement entity, the College Sports Commission, plan to prevent booster pay is the target of much criticism and fascination — plenty of it shrouded in secrecy for the last many months. The Particulars and initial thoughts • There is a six-step submission and approval process • While many doubt that the clearinghouse will withstand inevitable legal challenges, administrators here provided legitimate reasons for why they believe in its long-term survival. Most notable of those, says NCAA president Charlie Baker, is that the clearinghouse’s appeals process — arbitration — is equipped with subpoena powers. The Process • Athletes are required to submit third-party NIL deals of $600 or more using a web-based submission system, not unlike an online registration system for, say, a passport. The clearinghouse makes three determinations once a deal is submitted: • ESPN men’s basketball analyst Jay Bilas predicts the House settlement will end transfers, explaining that “the biggest thing for me in this is now schools can sign players to contracts. • So when you sign a player to a multi-year contract with this $20.5M amount annually – that is going to keep going up because revenues keep going up…you can also put buyouts in those contracts. And more on your #sportspodcast with all your #sportnews