Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said Tuesday he's opposed to the Fair Pay to Play Act legislation that was passed in California and will allow college athletes to collect endorsement money.
ESPN's Edward Aschoff provided comments from Smith, a key member of an NCAA group discussing how to handle name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for student-athletes. Among them were:
"My concern with the California bill—which is all the way wide open with monetizing your name and your likeness—is it moves slightly towards pay-for-play, and it's very difficult for us—the practitioners in this space—to figure out how do you regulate it.