WASHINGTON — In 1986 at the age of 29, Gene Smith became the athletic director at Eastern Michigan. He's 67 now in his final year in the industry, he told a U.S. congressman on Wednesday.
COLUMBUS, OH - DECEMBER 04: Ohio State University athletics director Gene Smith listens during a press conference at Ohio State University on December 4, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. At the press conference head coach Urban Meyer announced his retirement and offensive coordinator Ryan Day was announced as the next head coach. Meyer will continue to coach until after the Ohio State Buckeyes play in the Rose Bowl.
Such a proposal isn’t unheard of. It’s been whispered through college sports circles for months as a way to direct more resources to athletes — a concept even discussed, however briefly, in the NCAA Transformation Committee talks last year. “They can do other things,” Smith said. “We’d be able to help them settle deals. If you’re an athlete majoring in actuarial science and there is a company in Cleveland, I can take you up to Cleveland and I can take you up and help introduce you to the CEO and say, ‘Hey, can you do a deal with him and make sure he gets a good experience?’”
However, such an idea raises legal questions. Some believe that the entire economic models around college sports would need to fundamentally change for it to work. The extra pay to athletes could be viewed as another trigger to athletes being deemed employers of their universities — an issue that college administrators vehemently push against and one that the NCAA is fighting in court.
The working group hopes to standardize NIL contracts, provide a registry or certification system for NIL agents and potentially hire a third-party administrator to create a public database pooling NIL contracts.What will? Changing the scholarship model, he said.“I’ll leave that to your imagination,” he said smiling.
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