This week’s newsletter takes another original deep dive into how the social media followings and engagement rates of some of the top performers in college athletics compare across numerous sports by analyzing the Instagram profiles of athletes who were named to the most recent All-America teams in 1
The biggest story of the 2021 men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments has been the inequities between the two tournaments, ranging from the most serious of disparities (the plans for the COVID-19 testing at each site) to the most inconsequential, but still incredibly telling difference...
As soon as this summer, college athletes at National Collegiate Athletic Association schools may be able to profit from the use of their names, images, and likenesses (NILs). Meanwhile, Chloe Mitchell already has been cashing in.
Video game developer Electronic Arts Inc (EA/EA Sports) is bringing back its popular EA Sports college football game. Partnering with Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), the nation’s leading collegiate trademark licensing company, EA Sports announced it will be the exclusive developer of...
In today’s addition of Student Athlete NIL, we will give a high-level overview of one of the biggest challenges facing the implementation of Name, Image and Likeness – the monitoring of what may end up being millions of yearly financial transactions between student-athletes and their endorsers and o
A non-NCAA athlete may serve as the case study for NCAA athletes seeking to monetize their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”). Chloe Mitchell, a freshman volleyball player at Aquinas College, plays in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (“NAIA”) and is regarded as the first...
In Part I of this review of the College Athletes Bill of Rights, we highlighted the bill’s plan for mapping out the future landscape for permissive student-athlete NIL transactions.
The opening of the “College Athletes Bill of Rights” 63-page federal bill plainly states its objective is to “protect the rights of college athletes and to establish the Commission on College Athletics, and for other purposes.”
In Part II, we will take a more practical approach to outlining the sports agent – agency industry and discuss the most important questions that need to be answered in order for the NIL ecosystem to function properly.
As the July 1 effective date approaches for Florida’s name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) legislation, sports agents’ role in the world of college athletics is expected to grow.
As of mid-February, 39 states have passed, currently/previously proposed, or plan to propose NIL legislation. Currently, six have passed NIL legislation at the state level (California, Florida, Colorado, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Michigan).
Part I and Part II of our Day In The Life series presents a variety of policy issues intertwined with if, what, when, who, where, and how college athletes could pursue NIL activities while still maintaining their NCAA competition eligibility.
