As NCAA prepares to crack down on booster involvement in NIL, lawyers and sports agents say ‘bring it’

The news coming out of last week’s Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 spring meetings was the NCAA’s impending attempt to crack down on schools’ boosters using NIL payments to land recruits. New, clearer NIL guidelines drafted by a subcommittee that includes Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Big East commissioner Val Ackerman are expected to spur the NCAA’s enforcement arm into action, sources told The Athletic. Smith said in an interview this weekend that he hopes the new recommendations are endorsed by the Division I Board of Directors on Monday.