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Name, image and likeness discussions getting interesting by jt

chickens coming home to roost for the NCAA. Dumbass greed leading to major problems.

“We were very robustly frank with him. We laid into the NCAA,” Blumenthal said in an interview Wednesday with Sports Illustrated. “[Remy] asked us, ‘Do you think the NCAA has made progress?’ And basically our answer was there’s been progress, but it’s too slow and too little.”


While both lawmakers describe the conversation as amicable and courteous, they “didn’t pull any punches,” Booker says. Remy defended the NCAA’s progress, turning at least slightly “defensive” late in the discussion as the lawmakers chided the governing body for not taking enough strides in modernizing rules related to college athletes' rights, most notably name, image and likeness (NIL).

“Since my interview with them, for them to reverse [a decision] on transfer and NIL rules, it is again galling to me that they fail,” Booker says.

“[Remy] was a bit defensive,” Blumenthal says. “I think they think they’re making progress. The announcement this week is Exhibit A of a lack of progress.”

The NCAA this week was expected to approve rules that would allow athletes to profit off their NIL and to transfer once without needing to sit out a year. However, officials are delaying both votes because of the uncertainty surrounding three issues: the Department of Justice’s threat of potential antitrust violations; the Supreme Court’s ruling on NCAA litigation in the Alston case; and the power shift, from Republican- to Democrat-controlled, in the U.S. Senate.