(05-25-2022 06:43 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  College sports has been dirty from day one :

"The idea of paying college athletes to compete dates back to what is considered to be the first intercollegiate competition. In a regatta between Harvard and Yale Universities, Harvard used a coxswain who was not even a student enrolled at the Ivy League school. Much like today’s universities whose appetites for appearances in corporate-sponsored “big money” football bowl events; Harvard may have used the non-student to please regatta sponsor Elkins Railroad."

Not sure this is analogous to NIL abuse.

As far as cheating in college sports... I offer this trope (using me as part of it).

I am and Hitler was a sinner.

I use this to point out what is referred to as 'false equivalence." Someone goes 10 MPH over the speed limit and someone drives drunk and gets into an accident.

The drunk driver's lawyer says, "everyone has a lapse in judgement while driving once in a while... I'm sure you seen friends, neighbors, etc. make mistakes behind the wheel. They aren't bad people. They are humans who made a mistake."

The example you use is essentially trivial. Has little relevance to NIL abuse.