As National Signing Day approaches, top recruits’ parents say irregularity reigns supreme in NIL

The moment she knew the conversation needed to stop was when the personnel director started talking about calling the baseball donor to fund the NIL package.

As the mother of a top football prospect in the 2024 recruiting cycle, she has sat in plenty of rooms with coaches. Flown in for visits. Wined and dined by some of the top programs in the country. But when the discussion topic shifted to NIL and a school mentioned it was going to need to call its top booster from baseball to raise funds, she knew securing a lucrative package just wasn’t going to happen.