UW AD Jen Cohen, on the current state of NIL: Recruiting inducements and pay-for-play are ‘taking kids away from schools’

“I’m going to state the obvious,” UW athletic director Jen Cohen began, “and that is that this is a very complex and challenging time for college athletics.”

In an annual presentation to the University of Washington Board of Regents Wednesday, Cohen and UW chief financial officer Kate Cullen outlined the athletic department’s budget in the 2022 financial year — which ends June 30 — and provided detailed projections for FY23 (all of which will be analyzed in an extensive story next week).