The Atlantic Coast Conference finished its annual spring meetings on Wednesday, May 14. It was attended by the league’s Faculty Athletic Representatives (FARs), Athletic Directors (ADs), Senior Woman Administrators (SWAs), Football Head Coaches, and so on. “Our time this week has been extremely productive as we had the opportunity to advance our ongoing discussions surrounding the ever-changing state of college athletics,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, coming out of the meeting. It turns out that college football is likely to undergo a massive change in the coming weeks, going by the analysts’ take on the meeting. Meanwhile, Charles Brakey stands firm on his stance on NIL, which involves a college football program.

The House case settlement will pay billions in back payments to former college players who were unfairly prevented by the NCAA from earning off their NIL. As per the reports, the settlement also provides the framework for a pool of $20 million to $23 million. Not only this. The amount will increase annually to pay players for the use of their NIL beginning July 1. Right now, college football is likely to adapt to a new change. In this case, the football programs belonging to different conferences have one and only goal. Be it SEC, Big Ten, ACC, or Big 12, the objective is plain and simple. Protect the money.

The college football conferences do not care whether they will have to go through more lawsuits and more millions and billions lost. That’s when a system designed by Deloitte Consulting LLP enters the chat. Doesn’t it sound fancy? They’ll buy it, with a yet-to-be-named czar of college football.

On the May 14th episode of the Florida State Football podcast, Warchant TV, analyst Ira Schoffel shared some updates. “Different people we’ve spoken to they’re pretty confident because they got a presentation from Deloitte, who’s a consulting firm that’s going to handle a lot of this.” Here, Deloitte will help in working on college football programs to gather funding through collectives.

As the analyst noted, “Players are going to have a choice when if they’re going to have a one-year contract or a multi-year contract. If they sign a one-year contract with a school, then there’s probably no buyout involved. They play that year, and then they can leave and be free.”

A meeting with Deloitte came with more updates, as reported by Yahoo Sports analyst Ross Dellenger. The company shared with ADs/coaches interesting figures on the NIL clearinghouse. Here are the figures. 70% of past deals from booster collectives would have been denied. 90% of deals from public companies would have been approved. Amidst this, a college football program landed in deep soup because of their NIL. 

Charles Barkley blasts NIL chaos in college football

That’s none other than Auburn. A few days back, Auburn basketball legend and NBA Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley made a stunning statement regarding NIL. Given the current situation in college football, players’ movement is totally reliant on NIL. Programs are losing players to the clasp of NIL. In such tough times, Barkley doubled down on his stance of being against sending money to Auburn for that reason. The “Inside the NBA” analyst shared his take at the Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament at Greystone in Hoover.

According to him, college football programs like his alma mater, Auburn, must know when to draw the line in terms of NIL. “There’s nobody, legal or illegal, who has given more money to Auburn than me. Let’s get that out of the way, but the notion I’m gonna give them millions of dollars a year, so Auburn can be good at football and basketball is not gonna happen. Anyone that thinks that is stupid.” Amidst the growing issues in college football, NIL tops the list.

He did not mince his words before sharing how the officials of the NCAA must be more responsible. “College athletics is so f—ed up right now. I don’t know what they gonna do to fix this thing. The NCAA is just a bunch of i- – -ts who let it get out of control.” So, the moral of the story? Charles Barkley will continue to give his money to his favorite college football program. But here comes the catch. He will donate in areas that do not include NIL.