While Gene Smith is among the college athletics leaders working with the NCAA in its efforts to curtail the use of name, image and likeness deals as recruiting inducements, he doesn’t believe the NCAA can solve all of the problems in college sports – specifically in college football.
In fact, Smith believes the lack of NIL regulations are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to issues surrounding college sports right now.
“The NIL issues are kind of the symptoms. The disease is that we are too big,” Smith told Eleven Warriors last week.