Adam Cook and Tate Gillespie are joined by Former Texas A&M NIL Director and Ohio State football player Jamie Wood, who dropped knowledge on life experiences in the world of NIL.

Jamie and Tate, who is the former NIL Director at Kansas, compare notes on their experiences in the role and how they manage so many relationships across athletes, coaches, administrators, boosters, businesses and more.

The crew dissects what makes the best NIL programs successful within athletic departments, and how different units can best work together to achieve synergy.

Adam & Tate link up to break down the latest house settlement news as it relates to NIL and what that means for the future of college athletics, schools and the athletes themselves.

They also address the future of collectives and what role they will have if schools are allowed to pay athletes.

And, naturally, the Adam & Tate close the conversation with some great EA College Football chatter.

Michelle Meyer, founder of the NIL Network, rejoined the pod to discuss all the latest happenings in the world of NIL.

As former collegiate athletes themselves, Adam, Tate and Michelle break down a wild last few weeks in the NIL industry and give their takes on whether they feel athletes SHOULD be employees or not.

The former NIL Coordinator at San Diego State University, Michelle is now the Director of Growth at JABA AI.