Mississippi Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, not for the first time, called for federal intervention in the world of compensation for college athletes last week.
We’ve come to know this as NIL, the acronym for “Name, Image and Likeness.”
Wicker told Sports Illustrated that the NCAA’s debut act with NIL is lacking.
The very thing the NCAA sought to prevent for so long – pay for performance – becomes much easier to achieve through the current model of NIL.
The discussion about NIL is closely linked with the NCAA’s other new athletes’ rights initiative, the transfer portal.