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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 7, 2025

NIL drives college sports into legal entropy

Betting, branding and foreign financing were once unthinkable in college sports -- now they're on the table. Without a federal NIL framework, it's time for lawyers to step in.

Frank N. Darras

Founding Partner
DarrasLaw

Email: frank@darraslaw.com

Western State Univ COL; Fullerton CA

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NIL drives college sports into legal entropy
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 The Supreme Court unanimously decided that players are entitled to earn compensation from their name, image and likeness (NIL) in 2021. Since then, mentioning NIL invokes metaphors of floodgates opening and pendulums swinging the other way now that players can finally be compensated. Today, these adages are still true. Rule changes and the prospect of truckloads of cash reflect the NCAA's reactive posture in a hyper-commercial, NIL-driven era. Each injects new ambiguity...

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