The NCAA Division I Council on Monday recommended that the association temporarily “suspend amateurism rules” related to athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, the association announced.
The Council is the division’s day-to-day policy-making group, primarily comprising athletic administrators. Its recommendation now goes to the Division I Board of Directors, a panel comprising mainly college presidents that is the division’s top rules-making committee. The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday and it seems likely it will approve the recommendation.
Monday’s action came with 10 states having passed laws or seen governors issue executive orders that will allow athletes to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL),