Nick Saban, Greg Sankey and a host of other dignitaries from the Southeastern Conference are in Washington, D.C., this week to convince legislators to address what is undeniably one of the most pressing crises in our country right now: NIL collectives.
It’s not that commissioners, athletic directors and coaches are against athletes finally earning money for their name, image and likeness. It’s that in many cases they’re being paid too much money, and that sometimes the money is not being used as it was intended, and it’s not being regulated, so man, do we have ourselves some problems.
Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek, a member of the aforementioned D.C. convoy, explained one of those problems at a Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce event this week.
“Young men and women are making decisions not to go to Major League Baseball or the WNBA or the NBA because they can make more money in college,” Yurachek said, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “Does that make any sense, that you can make more money by staying in college than you can by going and being a professional athlete? That’s where we have some issues in college athletics.”
Upon reading this, you may be asking yourself: Wait, isn’t it a good thing for college athletics if the star athletes want to stay in…
