Originally Posted by
Lehigh Football Nation
I understand people believe this, but I don't. I think there are a lot of Title IX lawyers that are working on this as we speak.
Suppose I get a call from the Irish Mafia paying me a bribe, sorry, inducing me to go to a particular pub. I go to the pub, the pub gets my money. The Irish Mafia is literally paying me to go. The main beneficiary is the pub. How is this not an affiliation? How on earth are you going to prove or demonstrate that the bribe didn't really mean to go to that pub, but any pub? This is the type of hogwash people are being asked to believe.
I'm willing to concede if they are just employees of the university, not students, then Title IX doesn't apply and its merely an economic transaction. If the Irish Mafia pays me to go and there's an affiliation, then it's literally just money laundering, but it's not technically illegal. But since they're allegedly students, Title IX and gender equity applies.
Again, the NCAA and the Power 5 are lumbering into a debate they do not want to have, if they are smart, which they're not.