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VT One OP
May 02, 2026 at 01:14 PM ET
I have asked this question a couple of times in similar ways? If we find a
portal kid or two that would come if we had more money, can Mike Young legally contact a friendly donor and take a check if the donor wants to contribute? Would that violate the terms of our current retainee’s or portal signees who may have accepted their offers within the budget we had at the time? Hopefully, no players or others know exactly what anyone makes, or what the budget is, because that could be a cancer. This is a perplexing situation to understand because there don’t be seem to be many rules but we seem to be bound to a defined ceiling-no matter what.

4 Replies

Pylons Pylons
2mo
I don't see how it would be a problem
NIL contracts are all independent of one another. Signing a new one has no impact on the old ones. An they're not contingent on a budget at some point in time. Budgets change...that has no impact on deals already struck. Sure, feelings could get hurt, but I don't see how that scenario would be illegal.
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VT ChemE 1986
3mo
There are no rules. This is the wild, wild west
Tuckahokie Tuckahokie
3mo
It's like bizarro world Outback Steakhouse...No Rules, Just Wrong
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HboroughHokie
3mo
I dont think it matters anymore if it legal. Im guessing it happens all
the time in college sports today