Not going to get into how, or who-
It would appear that the NIL stuff where FSU/Alford is concerned is every bit as bad as people like Jeff Cameron were reporting. Not only that, there is apparently a belief that NIL “will go away in the next few years“ as part of holding the line.
What I learned this morning tells me that what is going on behind the scenes with the ”restructuring” is as much philosophical as it is money related. JC was if anything, underselling the frustration from the coaches about NIL.
There are some parallels with kids appearing to quit a little, and these money revelations -In more than one sport.
One can surmise that many college administrators are facing the same dilemma that FSU is between the rather loose rules versus predicting what’s coming down the pike- weighing staying competitive vs being in compliance in the event that caps and rules actually get enforced.
Some administrations are much more conservative.
In my estimation, in many major schools- on the academic side they don’t want to be penalized by an A/D doing stuff out of the rules- BUT the schools know that a robust football program benefits everything for the school. In these ever evolving times, it’s hard to know what to do when you have many stakeholders with varying interests.
It would appear that FSU has the opposite dynamic- where the A/D is the one putting on the brakes.
There are much more knowledgable people than me about the money - and the influence that the booster and donors actually have- but I have to imagine that most of the big money people have an attitude of winning- they are the type of people that if they are driving on I-75 and the flow of traffic is 85 mph- they are driving 9— and that would like to know the end game of their generosity is not going to be stifled at the proverbial 10 yard line- when no other program is playing things that way.
My point in all of this is that disincentivized players can make any coach look bad- and it’s at least something to consider.
It’s like the old saying “if something seems hard to explain, follow the money”
