This month, California lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow NCAA student athletes in the state to maintain NCAA eligibility while making money off of their names and likenesses.
The NCAA has called the proposal “unconstitutional,” arguing that states lack the jurisdiction to grant student athletes these rights. The organization has also sent a letter to the state threatening that if the bill ends up being signed, then all 58 California NCAA-sanctioned schools will be disbarred from the NCAA.
South Carolina lawmakers have now started talks about introducing a similar bill in the future.
Here are the cases for and against letting athletes profit off their college careers.