What's maddening about this NIL-bullshit it how hairsplitting the inducement side is for recruits:
Booster/Collective: "You'll get $50K if you come play OL for Texas next year" <-- Inducement! Illegal! Non-compliant!
Coach: "Hi OL recruit, did you hear the report that all enrolled full-time students who play OL at Texas will get $50K/year starting next year?" <-- perfectly fine
Everyone, I mean everyone knows that it's the same fucking thing. Even better is the Miami LifeWallet guy. Can we just drop the pretense and call NIL for what it is: Pay-for-play? I'm sure there were a handful of people just waiting on the sidelines to connect Longhorns with *legit charity causes* but couldn't because of the old system and are now overjoyed to give these worthy charities exposure (and any benefit to the players is secondary of course) but 99.9999% of SEC Collectives are doing NIL with the express purpose of making the team more competitive for championships; not side benefits like making players richer, giving charities better coverage, or whatever. Caterwauling about what NIL is or isn't or what it was "supposed to be" in terms of Name, Image, and Likeness is laughable. Once the barn door was opened to legally paying players, any rationale that people are willing-to-pay to support is now legit. So yeah, it's effectively salary, minus the salary-cap.
Compliance and boosters need to deal with that - because the best players have certainly realized it.