re: Tennessee AD Danny White releases statement, goes HAM on NCAA

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A collective is not a booster, because they are an NIL marketing company, it’s not that difficult.

As for the pay to play, the lawsuit has ZERO to do with pay for play. Pay for play would mean the school would be paying athletes.

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You have more of a reading problem than I do. From the link I posted:

"The lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee seeks to undercut NCAA rules against recruiting inducements and claims the association is "enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar."

The key word is inducements. It refers to this section of the NCAA NIL bylaws, which is the part that prohibits pay to play:

"22.01.2 Offers and Inducements. Name, image and likeness activities may not be used as an inducement for an individual to enroll or remain enrolled at a specific institution."

The lawsuit is seeking to remove the NCAA ban on inducements. That is literally ONLY about pay to play.

As for a collective not being a booster, you seem very confused about that too. A booster is anyone who gives money to a university. If that money is laundered through another person or organization, it's still considered booster activity. If you are a UT booster and pay me and I give that money to players, it's still considered to be booster activity regardless of the fact I never gave a penny to UT. Same holds through if you filter the money through a NIL marketing company.

Since collectives are largely funded ONLY by donations from boosters of a school, any activity they take would have to be allowed for an individual booster to take.

While the collective isn't technically a booster any more that I would be if I were acting as your bag man, they would be covered by booster regulations in he NCAA because the money comes from boosters. Laundering has never been allowed for booster money.