Aggressive Amendments to Oregon NIL Law Passes Committee Vote

Yesterday, the Oregon House Committee on Education passed an amended version of Oregon’s NIL legislation by an 8-0 vote.  The amended bill contains expanded protections on student-athlete compensation, and consequently, undermines the remaining authority of the NCAA to police NIL.

According to NCAA policy, NIL is meant to be predicated on off-field influence, not on-field performance.  However, now that a collective-backed “pay-for-play” system has become dually integrated into college athletics and many legal challenges have mounted against the NCAA to expand this pay-for-play system further, there is no putting the cat back in the bag.