Please help me figure this out.

People are talking like scholarship limits still matter. At least for the top programs, I don't understand why.

Say your 85 schollys are full and you want to add a backup long snapper. Easy peasy: grey shirt him and increase his NIL by $40k (or whatever cost of attendance is).

Why am I not hearing more about Grey Shirts?

> Say your 85 schollys are full and you want to add a backup long snapper. Easy peasy: grey shirt him and increase his NIL by $40k (or whatever cost of attendance is).
>
> Why am I not hearing more about Grey Shirts?

What makes you think it's not already happening?

One reason you may not be hearing about them is, the school can't really discuss NIL as it has to make it look like there's a clean break between the school and the boosters dishing out the dollars, and the boosters that do get together and pay aren't usually big enough names to show up on anybody's radar. Remember, it doesn't have to be one person paying $40,000; it can be 40 people each licensing the athlete for $1000 each. The athlete can make a stock video, similar to one Krusty the Clown has on The Simpsons: "I heartily endorse this product or service."

On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 5:23:51 PM UTC-4, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
> > Say your 85 schollys are full and you want to add a backup long snapper.. Easy peasy: grey shirt him and increase his NIL by $40k (or whatever cost of attendance is).
> >
> > Why am I not hearing more about Grey Shirts?
> What makes you think it's not already happening?
>
> One reason you may not be hearing about them is, the school can't really discuss NIL as it has to make it look like there's a clean break between the school and the boosters dishing out the dollars, and the boosters that do get together and pay aren't usually big enough names to show up on anybody's radar. Remember, it doesn't have to be one person paying $40,000; it can be 40 people each licensing the athlete for $1000 each. The athlete can make a stock video, similar to one Krusty the Clown has on The Simpsons: "I heartily endorse this product or service."

Maybe it is just the non-transparency because the schools cant talk about it. A CB is transferring from ND to tOSU; we hear he might not get a scholarship , we don't hear about the NIL package.

Searching for news for "[SCHOOL] football scholarship limit" shows the topic is still discussed at pretty much everywhere. But that Michigan is currently at 95 suggests some funniness. The unofficial count had Georgia at 91 *during* last season--- maybe that's explained by 6 NIL grey shirts. So maybe the limit is now just a footnote be reporters still have it on their off-season checklist.