Texas Tech Softball $10,000 NIL Deal for softball players

IndyHScoach said:

Just a bad effort at humor. I agree and apologize, do not want to turn this political. I was playing off the quoted comment.

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jdint said:

This site is supposed to be dedicated to arguing over the HLP of hitting solely.

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pattar said:

or me arguing with @RADcatcher.....about anything

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Gambler Bob said:

This is the first deal of this kind that I have heard of for softball players. Not sure if I am a fan of this or not but if I was a female softball player I would certainly be excited to make an additional $10,000 per year to play collegiate softball at Texas Tech. It will be interesting to see if this happens at other P5 softball schools.

Basically 27 Texas Tech softball players will be paid $10,000 per year for the name, image and likeness + participate in some community service projects.

Matador Club offering $10K annual contracts to all Tech softball players

Agreements are third team-wide NIL arrangement extended to Red Raiders' athletes

www.lubbockonline.com

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Rolling Hard said:

, and there is no violation of rules prohibiting influencing a student to attend or remain at a member school. (Rule 9)
A student may earn compensation from the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) in compliance with Rule 5, and Rule 9 provided:

• The compensation is not contingent on specific athletic performance or achievement.
• The compensation is not provided as an incentive to enroll or remain enrolled at a specific school.
• The compensation is not provided by the school or any person acting as an agent for the school.

Are these ^^^^^contradicting statements?

"No “marks” may be used, including but not limited to school logos, school name, school mascot, or any trademarked OSSAA logo or acronyms."

You might think they would want logos and such to be part of the advertisement but then someone would have to discern if "the engaging in certain commercial activities as an individual" are proper."

"No activities in conflict with a member school’s local school district policy may be endorsed. Examples include but are not limited to tobacco or alcohol products.
Who decides what else they would/could limit? I think they are opening a can of worms.

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RADcatcher said:

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Gambler Bob said:

This is the first deal of this kind that I have heard of for softball players. Not sure if I am a fan of this or not but if I was a female softball player I would certainly be excited to make an additional $10,000 per year to play collegiate softball at Texas Tech. It will be interesting to see if this happens at other P5 softball schools.

Basically 27 Texas Tech softball players will be paid $10,000 per year for the name, image and likeness + participate in some community service projects.

Matador Club offering $10K annual contracts to all Tech softball players

Agreements are third team-wide NIL arrangement extended to Red Raiders' athletes

www.lubbockonline.com

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sbmom19 said:

Oklahoma University has an NIL deal for all of their football, basketball (men's and women's) and softball players. $50k potential for each athlete in exchange for community service. https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/1oklahoma-announces-nil-collective-for-oklahoma-student-athletes#:~:text=Football-,1Oklahoma Announces $50k NIL Collective for Oklahoma Student-Athletes,on expansion into other sports.

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