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Not really. Think about it.Doubtful, because it puts the NCAA and the clearinghouse in the position of interfering in a private business arrangement between two third private entities. NIL can't be capped by the NCAA or a school because the schools don't pay it.
Say the FBS universities all agree to an NIL cap per school: each institution can have players on roster up to (just making up a number here) $100M in total reportable NIL. Meanwhile, an NIL cooperative at one of those institutions, say Spyre in Knoxville, is free to enter into any contract agreement with any player it desires. There is no external restriction on the free exchange between Sypre and players. Spyre is not bound by the $100M limit; it just can't have all its players enrolled at the same school, if it spends more.
But Spyre no longer WANTS to pay more than $100M to players, because it (a) wants only to help Tennessee, and (b) is no longer in open-ended competition for talent with the other co-ops supporting other schools. So what is, in effect, a collective salary cap holds without the NCAA, conferences, or universities interfering in private NIL deals.
And this doesn't require any action by the US Congress, afaik.
It's actually a fairly elegant "solution"
Of course, we'll be right back to the days of cheating by paying under the table, and the best cheaters (say "Bama," everyone) will once again have advantage.
But it ostensibly solves the runaway NIL problem.
Go Vols!
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