Coach Dan Mullen is taking a wait-and-see attitude to Florida’s pending legislation allow in-state college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness.
At the same time, the Gators football coach is confident questions, missteps, misinterpretations and likely chaos are sure to follow the July 1 launch of a law seen as overdue for athletes and rife with potential pitfalls.
“Any time you do something this big there’s going to be unintended consequences,” Mullen recently told the Orlando Sentinel. “I don’t know what NIL is, per see. You have some different ideas, but I don’t the extent of how far it goes.