Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart this week raised eyebrows with comments about the extent of NIL deals being offered to high school student-athletes.
According to Smart, some schools, operating through unaffiliated collectives, are spending as much as $20,000 per month.
Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart this week raised eyebrows with comments about the extent of NIL deals being offered to high school student-athletes.
According to Smart, some schools, operating through unaffiliated collectives, are spending as much as $20,000 per month.
“Teams that are unusually good at recruiting right now are doing it," Smart said via Bleacher Report. "Kids are getting money, but if you decommit, you owe that money back. These are high school kids getting money from an entity not affiliated with the university but is a collective of the university.”
Smart didn't identify the schools he was talking about but did say they are not in the Southeastern Conference.
These types of deals might not be long for the world, as the House settlement would establish an NIL clearinghouse that would be responsible for approving deals moving forward.
“That’s a risk,” Smart said. “Schools are going to either default on a contract, or have lied, or have been right and they gain a player for it.”
The “NIL Go” clearinghouse – established by Deloitte and part of the new enforcement entity “College Sports Commission" – found that 70 percent of past deals from booster collectives would have been denied, according to Dellenger.
