As expected, and with no other choice really, the NCAA has approved an interim policy on NIL rights for student-athletes, which means that the more than 100-year-old ideal of amateur athletics is now dead.
There is no other choice because on Thursday, several state laws regarding NIL go into effect and the playing field would become grossly uneven for those states. Kentucky and Ohio acknowledged that when their governors issued executive orders that kept them in the same ballpark as the soon-to-be NIL states.
Of course now all 50 states are NIL states. So what’s next?
Easy: land rush!