The University Sports Commission sent a correction on Friday, saying that it had exaggerated the name value, image, similarity agreements that it has eliminated in more than $ 40 million in a data set that made public a day before.
The Commission blamed a clerical report error in the data provided by Deloitte, which helped develop the platform called Nil Go.
The most discordant of errors: the total value of the deleted offers was $ 35.42 million instead of the $ 79.8 million previously announced. The $ 79.8 million are the total amount of all agreements in the system, including those that are still pending.
The CSC also said that 6,090 agreements had been approved, not the previously reported number of 8,359, which is the total number of agreements in the system to date.
“We assume all the responsibility of this report error,” Deloitte said in a statement. “We have taken additional measures to avoid any future recurrence and trust the Nil Go platform.”
The platform was created as part of the house settlement, which allows schools to pay athletes directly for their null, while offering them the opportunity to earn money with external groups. The CSC is using NIL to analyze external offers worth $ 600 or more.
The CSC is launching figures periodically in what has said that it is an effort for transparency, since it undertakes the difficult task of classifying through thousands of businesses carried out by athletes, whose eligibility is at stake if contracts are not considered within the guidelines.
The error offers a window to the enormity of the task for the CSC, which opened on July 1 and last month it was operating with less than half a dozen full -time employees.
The CSC said that most agreements are clearing within a week, but recognized frustration in the time it takes in some cases.
“The CSC is working diligently to accelerate waiting times and regrets the frustration caused by these initial delays in the process,” said the commission in a statement. “As with any new system of this scale, some early delays and growth pain are inevitable.”
The Commission did not report errors in other statistics published on Thursday, including the 332 agreements that had not been authorized and 75 that had been forwarded.
He said that 2,003 agreements were pending, approximately half of which expected more information and the other half of which were under active review.
