“memo that six DI conference commissioners - including Greg Sankey, Larry Scott, Jim Phillips & Keith Gill - sent to NCAA DI Council urging it to scrap its NIL proposal & instead pass an alternative granting each school permission to create its own NIL rules.
“Within the memo, the commissioners effectively push the NCAA to allow for individual universities to set their own NIL rules.
The proposal would run counter to what Penn State head coach
James Franklinenvisioned in a
one-on-one interview with Blue White Illustrated earlier this month in which he expected standardized rules to be put into place - either through the NCAA itself nationally or via the federal government - moving forward.”
“From what I understand, a lot of places are trying to wait, including the NCAA, and hope that the federal government will step in and say, ‘This is what we're going to do.’ Again, from an NCAA perspective, trying to make it consistent. Every state is coming out with its own bill, and it's all over the map. And you really can't conduct yourself like that. I mean, it's all over the map,” Franklin said. “So, a lot of people, I think including the NCAA, are trying to wait for them to get with the federal government and say, ‘Okay, this is what we're going to do, and it's going to be the same across the board.”