I think you and I are mainly saying the same thing. What Pruitt did was not permissible when he did it (I didn't write, "but it would be today," though I can see how you might infer that I intended that). What ATM is doing would not have been permissible before 2021, but today, well, that's what I meant by "timing."incorrect. What he did is still a major violation today. University employees can’t directly pay athletes.
NIL collectives and individual donors operate with different rules.