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Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin Says Managing NCAA Athlete Compensation 'Scares Me a Lot'

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The NCAA Board of Governors announced its support of a rule change that will allow student-athletes to be compensated for their name, image and likeness on Wednesday.

The rule change, which is scheduled to kick in at the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year, concerns Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin.

"I just don't know how it's going to be managed," Kiffin told Colin Cowherd on The Herd (h/t USA Today's Nick Suss). "You're opening up a can of worms. How can you manage donors [who say], 'Hey, you come to this school, the day you get here I'm going to buy 1,000 of your jerseys for 100 bucks.