But with contracts stating explicit financial penalties for non-compliance for both student-athletes and schools, combined with the use of local law enforcement and a collaborative preventative partnership with the NFL, there is reason to hope that these steps would surely help curtail the incidence of cheating in Division I athletics in general and college football specifically.
Explicit deals were never the norm, though Spitzer showed evidence that some Merrill analysts had contracts tying their pay to their generation of fees.