I don't think there's a private jet but regardless, you're blatantly wrong. NIL has limited restrictions so it's nothing for there to be a commercial shoot in Bloomington that is part of his NIL agreement and includes a private flight. You can try to blatantly say that can't happen, but it most certainly can because it does. As long as it's a valid agreement between the business and athlete, the NCAA isn't stepping in front of that.
Its already happening...to the point where its becoming normalized...if not expected, for high profile kids.
What in the hell is the matter with you people? The NCAA 10000% would step in front of a scenario where a kid who 2 hours earlier verballed to IU and was flown in on a private jet to attend IU's midnight madness. Fland isn't eligible to sign his letter of intent for another 2 weeks. This is as clear cut of an impermissible benefits violation as can be.
Who, where? Who is being flown around the country on private jets through the university or boosters dime?
Right, just straight from the booster's business account. A booster can endorse a player's NIL permitted its for an endorsement deal that is part of a disclosed agreement provided to the school. Do people think its common for random businesses to simply want college athletes endorsing their businesses? Although possible, not nearly common enough to make the scene what it is today. People are kidding yourself if you don't think these NIL deals are built upon the foundation of boosters.
Get off it being cook lending him the plane geezer I just said him as an example. I could rent him a PJ for 60k. It’s legal. And if it happens, you might just wanna quit this internet thing.
Correct, they wouldn't allow that. But they would allow him to take a private jet to IU to shoot a commercial. What he did while he was in Bloomington is up to him. The NCAA could be on the plane with him and see its part of the agreement. You're stuck in your old ways bud. Sorry.
High school NIL is tricky. Thats the difference. Matter of fact the NCAA is not onboard with this. You can’t just send a boosters plane without getting the ncaa all over it. It’s easier just to use a rented one.
Of course if the Fland family has the means to afford a chartered jet from White Plains to Bloomington then more power to them. But "X and X family" lending their private jet with a promissory note attached to it, isn't going to fly, literally.
You and Cook fall under the same status of "booster", if you want to be called that. And while you could do that, it wouldn't be legal, in any sense of how the NCAA operates.
Recruits are flying private for visits. And they're not paying for it. That's all I know as facts.
Who and to where and which schools? Who is paying for it?
I'm talking about recruits flying private to schools, and not paying for it. You can parse through the details if you want. Would this be considered an official visit for Boogie, or has he already used his IU visit?
He's already taken an official visit and official visits are set weeks in advance and are vetted through the NCAA as the host school has to send a list of financials and expenses that the NCAA approves.
Well Boogie has not taken his senior year official to B-town, so they could pay for the ticket/travel and be fine if they use it as his official visit this fall
And yet... he isn't going to be booking the flight himself and paying for it himself. There are about 400 people in between Boogie and IU that can, and would, facilitate all this. And it certainly wouldn't have to be a commercial airline flight either.
See my post above.
What part of "School boosters and university associates" can't facilitate NIL deals and inner-workings with prospective high school students do you not understand?
Would be kinda like when EJ flipped for IU and was at Hoosier Hysteria or midnight madness back then.
Except Eric Gordon lives an hour from IU's campus and was likely driven down by his parents.
You're precious. Was it you that made this jump that anything and everything that could be done in this little hypothetical had to be done through a booster or IU official?
I meant if he showed up in general. Hour drive alot easier than couple hour secret jet ride lol
Who are the hundreds of people not affiliated with IU that could pull this off between the time Boogie commits at 2pm and the time Hoosier Hysteria starts at 7, that doesn't cross any kind of impermissible benefit violation set forth by the NCAA?
To be fair, the guy did say hypotheticals. Most hypotheticals don't cross into any sense of reality.
I could. The company I work for might love to have Boogie as a spokesman for our products. And we might want to fly him somewhere to snap some pictures for our marketing efforts. We have some dealers relatively close to Bloomington...Bloomington airport is as good a place as any for these photos?!
My point is that you're not living in any kind of reality if you think that is going to coincide with him choosing (hopefully) IU and showing up at Hoosier Hysteria 5 hours later. How many non-IU businesses are going to be knocking down Boogie's door to "sign him up" an hour after committing to IU?
Nothing in that document outlines what i stated. A booster, can own a business, the business can make an NIL agreement with anyone. It's not the booster making contact, it's the business. Anyone can then get on a jet as part of the agreement specifically for the endorsement and fly into Bloomington to fulfill his portion of the NIL agreement. The NCAA can dig into that all they want and as long as the facts within the agreement aren't false and was run past the school prior to, this is perfectly legal. How can the NCAA prove differently? These college kids doing commercials for big corporations are most certainly being flown in.
Precisely. The Booster rules are valid but impossible to enforce unless you can prove there wasn't the intent stated within the agreement. Otherwise, its a kid making money and even though people want to pretend its unbelievable that he could then also attend something unofficially while in the area doing business, is going to have a hard time understanding how dark college athletics have been for generations.
We aren't talking about college kids who are free to sign endorsement deals with university backed donors ONCE THEY ARE ACTUALLY ENROLLED IN SCHOOL. We are talking about prospective recruits (high school students) who can't enter into legally binding NIL deals with booster or booster associated entities of the schools they are being recruited by.
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