Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and 11 of the state’s college athletic directors on Friday sequestered themselves inside a room at the University of Utah’s Huntsman Center to discuss the future of compensation for college athletes.
In October, the NCAA launched intercollegiate athletics into a new era when its Board of Governors announced the organization will allow its athletes to prosper from the use of their name, likeness and image for the first time in its 100-plus-year history. The move, which is scheduled to take effect in 2021, was spurred by California’s passing of a bill allowing its collegiate athletes to do just that starting in 2023 as well as the initiation of similar legislature in at least 10 other states.