Student-athletes gained the right to profit off their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) a few years ago, which was a boon for female gymnast Livvy Dunne:
Livvy has amassed more than 8.1 million followers on TikTok and 5.3 million on Instagram at the time of this writing.
With her massive following, Livvy has earned a total of $9.5 million during her time at LSU. According to On3.com, she earns $3.9 million per year, up from a $3.3 million evaluation before LSU won the national championship.
Prime Video’s The Money Game apparently goes into this.
This sort of thing is only happening because, on this day twenty-three years ago, a group of terrorists knocked down three buildings with two airplanes in New York, and disappeared fifty tons of aluminum and steel into an office at the Pentagon. May God have mercy on us all.
This whole thing has always stunk of a much more foundational issue regarding education in the United States, and issue that everyone is scared to lift the lid and look at.
“Best to leave the dead body rotting.”
“Why?”
“Because then we can deny that we knew it was a dead body of course!”