For the members of the Michigan football team, riches are on the horizon. At least that’s what we’re made to think in the latest announcement from the NCAA. The press release is titled Board of Governors starts process to enhance name, image and likeness opportunities.
The years of fighting have granted the ‘amateur’ and unpaid workforce – known as college athletes – a small victory with their attempt at altering the archaic name, image, and likeness rules, rules that have only fostered fraud, corruption, and other criminal activity.
But is the announcement just a smokescreen and not real change?