NCAA president Mark Emmert said Thursday at the Final Four that the association needs to work with Congress to create an uniform Name-Image-Likeness model across all 50 states in order to properly regulate it moving forward.
Beginning last July 1, college athletes have had the opportunity to benefit from their name, image and likeness.
The different state-by-state laws, Emmert said, has made it difficult to adopt a consistent NIL model across all colleges and universities.
“It is unfortunately a circumstance where we’ve got now 30-plus different states with different laws,” he said. “We need to work with Congress to create one federal landscape. We’ve had a variety of legal actions in the courts with all of that.
“That supersedes the board’s ability … We have got to have Congress find a single legal model by which NIL and other relationships with student-athletes can be regulated. That’s going to be a big task.”