Super Bowl champ Randy Cross says 'there is no fair way' to do NIL

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NIL has taken the world of collegiate athletics by storm and has changed the landscape of how they operate.

Three-time Super Bowl champion and College Football Hall of Famer Randy Cross spoke about NIL (name, image and likeness compensation for college athletes) and its impact during a recent appearance on OutKick's "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich."

"The bad thing about (NIL), Dan, is there is no fair way to do this," Cross said. "Fair has never been a factor or rarely a factor in sports, and there is no fair to say, ‘Well, we are going to pay these guys over here, but you know the guys and gals over here that play these sports aren’t going to get anywhere near that same kind of money.'

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Randy Cross of the 49ers is shown during the NFC Championship Game against the Chicago Bears at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on Jan. 6, 1985. (David Madison/Getty Images)

"Everybody wants to say [it's] got to be fair. Eh, nah, life’s not fair."

The 70-year-old former player wonders where the money is going to come from that’s going to fund the universities' ever-growing NIL demands from athletes.

"I mean, if you look just at [college] basketball and [college] football, what are the limitations, and where is all this money going to come from? Not enough people talk about that," he said.

"It’s like it’s coming out of the air, all these quotes you’ve heard lately about, ‘You know, what is this whole cloud thing?’ Well, is the money coming out of the cloud? No, it’s going to be soon coming out of companies like BlackRock and countries like Saudi Arabia, but it’s not coming out of the cloud."

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