This is a time of sweeping change in college athletics as the NCAA, which has set the table for over 100 years, is being gradually pushed to the side.
Or not so gradually.
NIL rights started in July, supposedly on an interim basis until the association could figure out a way to manage it or get Congress to pass a law to regulate it, something that Congress, in its current state of polarization, would probably find next to impossible even if it was interested, and pretty clearly, it’s not.
After completely surrendering on the NIL issue, NCAA President Mark Emmert seems to be giving up completely and taking a hands off approach to the entire enterprise.