"The Bama Way" to pay recruits, which has spread across the P5, has been to have assistants use their own salary.
Local contractors are paid under the table to build condos for recruits' families, who then sell them on the market when the player leaves college.
There is zero chance that a "startup soft drink sponsorship" in the form of NIL will impact any of this majorly.
Oregon's players are treated like "dressing dolls" by their donors.
For any program to take the step up to the elite, they have to go through a long process to determine which donors are trustworthy or risk those pesky recruiting scandals.
Anyway, I think it's worth a discussion on this board.
