Unofficial visits are supposed to be unpaid, but these wild stories show how schools are getting around that

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College football programs are skirting NCAA rules on unofficial visits, trips that athletes are supposed to fund themselves, through a maze of creative workarounds, some legal and others not. The article catalogs wild stories of schools covering costs via boosters, local businesses, and other third parties, exposing how the recruiting landscape operates in practice versus on paper. These tactics reveal the gap between NCAA regulations designed to level the playing field and the ruthless competition for elite talent that pushes programs to bend or break the rules.