After a series of meetings that concluded Monday, a task force on NIL deals for student athletes is ready to prepare a series of bills for the upcoming legislative session. Homer Democratic Representative Rashid Young is on the task force and says one central theme that came out of the meetings was the fact that there seemed to be no structure for interactions with amateur athletes.
“Unlike the professional sports agents and representatives, there was no real guardrails for agent and marketing representatives in the NIL space,” Young explained.
Young says not only is that true for collegiate athletes, but that’s also true for high school athletes; and because most of them are minors, there needs to be stricter regulations in place for them…