Division I schools can expect to receive further NCAA rules guidance related to name, image and likeness activity as soon as next week, two sources on the subcommittee overseeing the process told The Athletic.
The NIL subcommittee that issued updated guidance regarding the role of boosters and collectives in May is set to endorse its latest set of recommendations next week at a meeting of the D-I Board of Directors. The two sources, who agreed to discuss the group’s messaging before it was made public in exchange for anonymity, said that the board will meet both Tuesday and Wednesday and is expected to adopt guidance addressing which activities are permissible and impermissible when it comes to institutional involvement in NIL activity. The subcommittee’s work is just one of the topics expected to be on the agenda for the board.
The new guidance does not change NCAA rules; it aims to clarify and contextualize those existing rules. The NIL subcommittee is not a rule-making body, but the information it puts out is “more definitive” than current rules that can seem vague, as one member of the subcommittee put it.
There will be examples of permissible and impermissible involvement, which won’t cover every specific NIL-related issue that arises on a campus but will serve as…
