Scholarship athlete couldn’t do things like this. A kid with a multi million dollar tech idea would have had to sit on it if they wanted to finish out their college athletic days. There’s the kicker from Florida (or somewhere in the south) who was forced to choose between his six figure YouTube channel and college football. It made no sense.

This is a great way to take advantage of NIL and one of the most positive aspects of the new rules. It’s far from perfect, but this piece of it is a good change.