MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Along a carpeted hallway within the Sandestin Hilton, Brian Kelly is mid-conversation when a man interjects. “Hey,” the man said toward the LSU football coach, “you asked great questions today during our presentation!”
The man continued onward, leading a team of about a half-dozen people through the lobby of this place. They are members of the Deloitte leadership and implementation team operating college sports’ new NIL clearinghouse dubbed “NIL Go.”
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Presenting in front of SEC coaches here on Tuesday — a question-and-answer session too — Deloitte representatives walked them through the intricacies and concepts of the much-ballyhooed clearinghouse, the industry’s new, somewhat controversial method to prohibit booster payments to athletes.
While the presentation garnered rave reviews, uncertainty and doubt still lingers from coaches and others on the clearinghouse’s legal sustainability and enforcement method.
There’s so much uncertainty, says Georgia coach Kirby Smart, that some schools are promising high school recruits and transferring players third-party NIL deals as part of their compensation package despite an important fact: None of those deals can be approved by a clearinghouse that hasn’t fully launched.
But more concerning, says Smart, is that some school-affiliated, booster collectives are currently compensating high school players — upwards of $20,000 a month — to remain committed and eventually sign with their school.
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“Teams that are unusually good at recruiting right now are doing it. Kids are getting money, but if you decommit, you owe that money back,” Smart said. “These are high school kids getting money from an entity not affiliated with the university but is a collective of the university.”
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Author : Ross Dellenger
Publish date : 2025-05-28 17:50:00
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