If you thought name, image and likeness was confusing and ridiculous by ruining college athletics, it is going to get worse.
The NCAA, which ignored NIL issues until the Supremes ruled they couldn’t ignore it and said players deserved compensation, is suddenly trying to regulate the process.
It has determined that schools that have collectives — businesses coming together to help finance NIL deals — are in violation of NCAA rules.
Collectives — by the NCAA’s interpretation — are boosters.
Boosters are still forbidden from pay-for-play involvement.
Most of the colleges and universities which can afford to provide NIL deals wisely made the decision in the beginning that if a business was going to be associated with the players that it needed to be a business that was involved with the school.