The NCAA NIL Working Group is proposing permitting schools to provide "assistance and services" for NIL opportunities for student-athletes, per Yahoo's Ross Dellenger, who adds: "The proposal was publicized in January but has since been refined to focus specifically on a school’s involvement in arranging NIL deals. The proposal is on a parallel track and interconnected with the NIL “protections” legislation that the Council adopted in January. That legislation creates (1) a voluntary registration process for NIL professional service providers such as agents and advisors; (2) a disclosure database of athlete NIL deals of $600 or more; and (3) standardized NIL contracts as well as a comprehensive educational plan. [...] According to the working group’s proposed legislation, as an incentive for athletes to disclose their deals, schools may only provide assistance to those athletes who have disclosed their contracts, according to the memo." Also of note, the NCAA awarded the association's "agent registry, disclosure database and educational plan" to Teamworks. (link)
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