Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff fields questions in the course of the Pac-12 Convention NCAA school soccer Media Day Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Los Angeles. Jose Sanchez, Related Press
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey could have conferences with U.S. senators in Washington D.C. on Thursday “to encourage lawmakers to move a Title Picture and Likeness statute,” based on Sports activities Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger.
“I've been invited to conferences with a number of senators tomorrow to debate the problems we’re seeing with identify, picture and likeness, and with the existential risk of our student-athletes being deemed to be workers,” Kliavkoff instructed ESPN.
Kliavkoff and Sankey will meet with a minimum of two lawmakers — Maria Cantwell of Washington and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, based on Sports activities Illustrated.
“The aim is to debate just a few of the problems dealing with school athletics with influential senators,” Kliavkoff instructed ESPN. “I feel it’s extra possible that we finally get federal laws on identify, picture and likeness, however we’re additionally fascinated with discussing the entire hurt that can come to student-athletes if they're deemed to be workers.”
There may be presently no federal legislation addressing NIL. When NIL was enacted in 2021, the NCAA handed interim guidelines and defaulted to every state’s legal guidelines on NIL. Federal lawmakers have been unable to move a federal legislation addressing NIL in 2020.
NIL has been a hot-button difficulty as of late, with The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel reporting that a five-star soccer recruit within the Class of 2023 has “signed an settlement with a faculty’s NIL collective that would pay him greater than $8 million.” Miami basketball participant Isaiah Wong’s agent mentioned that Wong would switch if his NIL deal wasn’t elevated.