For the last year, as state legislators across the country crafted senate bills similar to California’s historic SB 206, the NCAA’s working group on federal and state legislation had been preparing for this week, the moment when its recommendations on name, image and likeness would go in front of the Board of Governors.In that time, with California and Colorado passing laws allowing college athletes to profit from the use of their NILs, the NCAA’s eager critics have often wondered: What’s taking so long?From the perspective of college sports’ governing body and its membership, blowing up a half-century’s worth of legal precedent based on the ideals of amateurism was never going to be simple. The announcement Wednesday that the board would support athletes being able to profit from third-party endorsements, social media influencing and personal appearances was always going to come with “guardrails” that would serve as new regulations in the midst of loosening past restrictions.To grasp why the working group’s recommendations needed 31 pages of explanation, and why the NCAA’s first big answer on NIL led to more complex questions, one has to consider just how much weight the association must put on every word that is thrust into the… Read full this story
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