Brian Kelly was a part of the SEC group that headed to Washington, D.C. to fight for NIL regulation, which he feels needs to happen as soon as possible.
and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in Washington, D.C. earlier this month to meet with lawmakers to make a case for federal assistance in regulating how college athletes can earn money off their fame."College athletics is at a crossroads if this doesn't get fixed," Kelly recently told ESPN.
"We needed to do something," Kelly continued."There needed to be some publicity behind it. There needed to be at least an education at the committee level where they had more than just what California is trying to do."," Kelly addd."It's not just football. I didn't have to be there. [Saban] didn't have to be there. We'll be OK. Yeah. At the end of the day, the big schools, the big oil companies, they all survive.
"If there's nothing on the floor or in committee by the end of July, then we'll know that they can't produce something," he said. Saban specifically pushed for the creation of some type of union at the collegiate level before heading to the nation's capital.
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