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Anyone know how the just passed court ruling will effect WIU and other similar universities or is it more for the P4 conference teams.

meganeck wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:19 pm Anyone know how the just passed court ruling will effect WIU and other similar universities or is it more for the P4 conference teams.


 

Hard to say at this point. We don't have the money to be paying players all that much, but that's not much different than before. Essentially it's now legal for schools to just directly pay players rather than having to funnel the money through independent NIL booster groups. I don't see much changing with WIU in the near future because of this.

The only benefit I see for teams like WIU is that limiting roster sizes for the power conference teams could force a few players down to the lesser conferences.
For example, Nebraska typically carried about 150 kids on their football roster.  Wont happen this coming year with limit now set to 105.