Chip LaMarca wants to clear the air once and for all.
LaMarca, the 53-year-old Florida state representative, filed a new bill Wednesday to amend the state’s name, image and likeness law making it easier for the Sunshine State’s schools to facilitate NIL deals for their athletes. But it did not come as a response, he says, to Florida State losing a high-profile recruit to Jackson State in one of the biggest stunners in the history of national signing day.
The timing was just coincidental. He’s been working on the new bill for nearly six months.
“I didn’t even realize it was national signing day,” LaMarca told SI in an interview on Wednesday night.