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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4155719, member: 44"] This whole process of states passing NIL laws and people suggesting there needs to be federal regulation never made any sense. All of us possess the right to profit off our name, image and likeness. That right wasn’t miraculously created by a few states (initially) passing legislation. The only limitation on college athletes doing that is it was a violation of their eligibility under NCAA rules. This was entirely an NCAA issue that they could have regulated in any way their member institutions saw fit, at any time. The fact that the NCAA demurred really eviscerates any enforcement of amateur status whatsoever by them, in my opinion. At this point the member institutions ought to create a new regulating body to administer Olympic sports and other non-revenue championships as well as basketball. They don’t need to pay for the NCAA’s historically arbitrary enforcement group to do that, and they certainly don’t need to pay Emmert a multi-million dollar salary. Take that money and dump it back into administering championships, or, just give it back to the member institutions. [/QUOTE]