Ohio State football: NCAA scrambling to make NIL rule
By Ryan Stano
With more and more states making NIL laws of their own, the NCAA is now scrambling to put some sort of rules in place to make everything uniform. How will that affect the Ohio State football program?
The Ohio State football program has some clarity on NIL laws in the state of Ohio after Governor Mike DeWine signed an executive order. Now all student-athletes in the state of Ohio can profit off their name, image, and likeness. Ohio joins seven other states with such laws on the books.
With so many states getting these laws out there, the NCAA is trying to scramble to put something together on their own. They want some sort of uniformity when it comes to these laws so that certain programs don’t have an advantage over one another.
They thought that Congress would get a federal NIL law taken care of so they didn’t have to do anything. That has proven false. Now, because they sat on their hands and waited too long, the NCAA is once again playing catch-up and has to figure something out.
It’s unclear what the NIL rules would look like under the NCAA. What we do know is that they have to include everything that all of the other states’ NIL bills do already. Otherwise, they themselves will be violating those state laws. It’s a tricky business they have gotten themselves into.
How does this affect the Ohio State football program? Right now, it doesn’t. They have guidance they can show recruits and current players based on what DeWine signed. At this point, that’s all they really care about. Things might change a bit in the future though.
The only change that I could see happening is a federal law coming down to supersede any state laws that are already out there on this. That would give things total uniformity for all of the NCAA member schools all over the country.
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Even if the NCAA came up with their own rules, it doesn’t seem like they will matter a ton. I bet all they do is make a rule that says other states can make their own rules governing this issue. That’s all they can do at this point.