Greg Sankey continued college athletics’ multipronged offensive for broad-based name, image and likeness (NIL) legislation in Nashville on Monday. The commissioner of the Southeastern Conference opened the league’s media days with an extended treatise on the need for a national policy created by Congress.
While some of the alarmist rhetoric about the threat to the “college sports model” from NIL has been comically overblown in the last two years, Sankey’s point has merit. A little regulation can go a long way without costing athletes much in the exchange.
And that regulation can’t come via the narrow lens of individual states. The current hodgepodge of fanboy self-interest that is passing through statehouses nationwide is not the answer.
