Lead sponsor, RJ Hawk, speaks on importance of latest NIL changes for state's universities, Hogs
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas NIL is once again going through a potential shift. A bill filed Thursday morning in the Arkansas House would allow the University of Arkansas to conduct 50/50 raffles for Arkansas Edge, the third-party NIL collective for Razorback Athletics.
"We've only got seven or eight big money people that are giving money to the collective to make this happen," Hawk said. "There's gonna come a day that if we don't start doing things so that we're also trying to raise money rather than going back to these seven or eight people, they're gonna go, look, I'm kind of tapped out."
The bill still faces some challenges. While Hawk's been researching the bill for two years, many of his colleagues are uninformed of the changing landscape of college athletics. "It goes back to Amendment 100 of the Arkansas Constitution," Hawk said. "It requires gambling or any type of raffle to be done in a brick and mortar building. To allow these raffles to be done by casinos is unconstitutional and we would have to put the casinos on the campuses because we're telling the school that they can run them. We'd have to put in a casino office on campuses.
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