Darren Heitner woke up Wednesday morning knowing full well that, in two short months, Florida college athletes would start profiting from their name, image and likeness.
He went to bed Wednesday night feeling less confident in that pending development.
Heitner, a University of Florida law professor who helped author Florida’s athlete compensation bill, was, like many, stunned to learn Wednesday evening that the effective date of the NIL bill would potentially be delayed by a year. The Florida state legislature on Wednesday passed an amendment to an unrelated charter school bill featuring language that changes the Florida NIL law’s effective date from July 1 of this year to July 1, 2022.