Missouri State men's basketball coach Dana Ford reacted on Tuesday following the NCAA's announcement that its Board of Governors voted "unanimously to permit students participating in athletics the opportunity to benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model," the association said in a news release.
Ford said he was "frightened" because the move would "open a can of worms" for a lot of change including for recruiting, administrating and fundraising.
"It's going to impact so much," the head coach said at his weekly press conference.
The NCAA's news release followed a Board of Governors meeting in Atlanta at which the group received a report from a special working group that had been appointed in May to examine the name, image and likeness issue.