Three-time nationwide champion coach City Meyer blasted the present standing of title, picture and likeness earnings in faculty soccer by calling it “dishonest” throughout an interview on the “Lou Holtz Present.” The 59-year-old three-time nationwide champion stated NIL is “nice” however lamented the “arms race” it has created.

“In the event you’re a lady basketball participant like the good lady from Iowa and so they need to put her on a billboard and pay her, they need to be capable of try this,” Meyer stated. “However that is not what occurred. What’s occurred is the arms race of accumulating cash from donors and the donors are merely paying gamers. That is what I perceive is occurring, and I do not like that.”

Meyer final coached in faculty soccer throughout the 2018 season. Although that was solely six years in the past, the place it was one other period solely. Since Meyer’s seven-year run at Ohio State concluded, the arrival of NIL, limitless transferring and convention realignment have rocked the game.

“If Lou Holtz or City Meyer or Marvin Harrison Jr., or C.J. Stroud, they need to go use their title and assist promote automobiles, assist a enterprise, that is nice,” Meyer stated. “However to have a 17-year-old demand cash for a go to, to pay these gamers some huge cash to go go to a charity for 20 minutes and so they write you a test for $50,000, that is dishonest. That is not what that is all about. I am very disenchanted in the place it went.”

Whereas a large-scale revenue-sharing mannequin is within the creating phases in faculty athletics, participant compensation for now could be caught within the collective mannequin beneath the guise of “NIL,” which does not sit properly with Meyer.

“There’s these items referred to as collectives the place they exit and get cash from donors and get this huge, large mass of cash and so they pay gamers,” he stated. “That is not what the intent is.”

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