The following is an essay written in late 2020 by Oqid himself, to the NCAA, in response to a request they sent him inquiring about obtaining his financial sponsorship. At the time, the World-Changers were the wealthiest entity on the planet, with each of them individually ranking in the top seven people in the world in net worth, which meant the group of them collectively accounted for five of the seven wealthiest people in the world. Oqid took the time to respond to the NCAA in essay form, to make his intentions clear. This document is unaltered; pulled directly from his own files.

Dear Mr. Emmert,

Thank you very much for your interest in offering me the opportunity to support our country's student-athletes. There are few things a person can contribute to that are more pure and righteous than aiding our youth in furthering their educations at our world-class institutions of higher learning, and that support feels even more productive when those youth are also expanding their physical fitness and wellness through collegiate athletics. Indeed, I would gladly donate large portions of my entire net worth to an organization that represented the ideals of supporting our youth's higher education, health, and well-being. Unfortunately, Mr. Emmert, your organization is as far from that organization as any that exists on this Earth. The purity of your lies and abuse of young men and women all over this country is, in my view, not just deplorable; it is criminal. If I was in charge of this country, I would dissolve your organization completely and put you in jail for a number of different counts of fraud, including extortion, embezzlement, misappropriation, and blackmail.

There are those who would compare the actions of the NCAA as the equivalent of modern day slavery. This is completely ludicrous; slavery is the second most horrible thing you can do to a human being, short only of torture, and your organization, fortunately, stops well short of it. However, I can understand the reasons for the comparison. You parade these young people on a national stage consistently, allowing both the institutions and your own organization to profit heavily directly from them, with rules that are uniquely designed to prevent them from doing the same with their own likeness. That, Mr. Emmert, is misappropriation, and it is a felony. For a select few, this national level forced parade will pay off in professional leagues, but even your own organization's advertising campaigns continue to point out the fact that this is extremely rare. For all the rest, the reward is a full time job to pay for tuition, which not only makes classes exceptionally more difficult due to exhaustion and lack of study time, but also is far from the full expense of attending college, which financially handcuffs many, many college athletes even further.

Your policies could be taught in a university for up and coming extortionists; I could build an entire curriculum, from Lying 101 to Advanced False Pretenses to Expert Avoidance of Trust Laws. And your enforcement of those policies is at best a guessing game, and at worst a three-year-old throwing darts. The idea that you could you have the authority to label any institution as having a “lack of institutional control” is beyond embarrassing; no organization has less institutional control than your own. Still, I have zero issues with you punishing the collegiate institutions; they are as much in on this racket as your organization is. But the idea that you could in your right mind ever punish an athlete for making hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars by selling their autograph is criminal; you make millions of dollars selling their likeness with, at best, their coerced permission, and you hide behind absurdly thin gray area jargon and embarrassing whitewashing to pretend that this should be considered legal. No amount of coercion your lackeys could put me through would convince me that anyone who bought an Ohio State number 2 jersey between 2008 and 2011 did so without knowledge that Terrelle Pryor was the player wearing it, autographed or not. They couldn't have; your own organization plastered his face all over national television, in his number 2 jersey as much as possible. And I'm sure the bounty you and Ohio State made off of him was substantial. But of course it was against the rules for him to share in those profits you were making off of him. He's a “student-athlete,” an embarrassment of a label that you use exclusively when it works to your criminal advantage.

There are no laws in this country that preclude you from doing what's right and paying your employees accordingly, and they are your employees. Only your own organization's palliation pretends that they are not. They work full time and you profit from the product that they make; that is the definition of an employee. That the criminal justice system has yet to see through your lies and facades is an indictment that they are embarrassingly corrupt, not that you are innocent.

So, no, Mr. Emmert, I will not support your criminal fraud or your glorified indentured servantry. In fact, if I did not have larger plans in the long term for your organization and the true protection of the young men and women under your rule, I would spend a significant investment of my own capital to create an organization that directly competes with yours and treats its employees legally, and watch the defections abound. For the time being, enjoy your corruption. You will be hearing from me in another capacity entirely in the near future.

Sincerely, Oqidorxik Tillit