How KU, K-State expect to handle new world of direct payments to athletes: Podcast
College sports has entered a new era with a recent court ruling that allows the schools to make direct payments to athletes.
For the upcoming school year, up to $20.5 million per university can be distributed to football, basketball, baseball and volleyball players, as well as other student-athletes. This is in addition to scholarships and payments for name, image and likeness.
How are schools handling this new approach? On SportsBeat KC, The Star’s sports podcast, college beat writers Kellis Robinett and Shreyas Laddha break down the structure and apply it to the schools they cover, Kansas State and Kansas.
The schools are also looking to regulate NIL, preventing it from becoming a recruiting tool, by creating an enforcement organization outside the NCAA. That could be the biggest challenge to the changed sports world.