Vanderbilt launches NIL marketplace for student-athletes

I’ve made my thoughts on the NCAA’s Name, Image, and Likeness policy pretty clear by now — basically, that it’s a really bad joke — but a lot of the reason for that is that most of the so-called NIL collectives are really just the old bagmen those schools used to have, only operating above board, and not actually having anything to do with name, image, and likeness, also known as that thing the kind of people who are fans of college sports but also hate NCAA rules told us totally wouldn’t just be what we all knew it would be.

In other words, NIL was supposed to look like this:

Vanderbilt and Opendorse have teamed up to launch a name, image and likeness marketplace for Commodore…