(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah has passed HB-479, allowing universities to directly pay athletes for their name, image, and likeness–or NIL payments. The bill ensures Utah schools stay competitive and clarifies athletes are not university employees. It bans using state funds for NIL payments, requires audits every five years, […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge is siding with five universities in Utah that challenged a State Records Committee decision calling for contracts with college athletes for name, image and likeness rights to be made public. Third District Judge Amber Mettler agreed with the University of Utah, Utah State, […]
Most name, image and likeness deals do what they were intended to do for college athletes: Put a few bucks in a college student’s pocket. The deals might involve social media posts, meet-and-greets and autograph sessions that give an athlete enough money to pay for pizza or cover the monthly […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The commissioners of the Southeastern Conference and the Pac-12 are scheduled to meet with lawmakers in Washington. They will lobby for federal legislation to regulate name, image and likeness compensation to athletes. A person who has been briefed on the commissioners’ trip to Capitol Hill confirmed […]
A deal BYU has made available to its football players could test how much allowing athletes to be compensated by outside companies for name, image and likeness can be used as a competitive advantage. BYU has announced that a Utah-based company that makes protein snacks will give the opportunity for […]
