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For most of college sports history, amateur athletes could not profit off of their status.
That was until 2021 when the Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA was in violation of Antitrust laws because they wouldn’t let athletes receive financial benefits from their own on-field performance.
After the ruling, the NCAA had no choice but to implement an interim NIL Policy in 2021, one that was amended this April, as the governance update now let’s institutions facilitate deals between student-athletes and third parties.