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Regarding NIL/high school -- Kaden Saunders (Westerville South/PSU) and Gabe Powers (Marysville/tOSU) both kicked the fire publicly on this over the summer, not a second too late after SCOTUS was 'down with the cause, and OHSAA threw a flag. https://www.dispatch.com/story/spor.../no-nil-ohio-high-school-athletes/7828286002/
The one interesting takeaway was...
I suspect we won't actually ever see NIL*compensation come to Ohio HS athletics. It's just pretty apparent, for literally everyone to see, how that's going to result in a "picking Winners versus Losers" situation. Nationally, the only indication NIL at the secondary level would "affect" (hurt?) Ohio is the small handful of HS athletes that obviously have big name potential in non-football sports going to out of state factories like Huntington Prep (WV), La Lumiere (IN) or wherever and making bank. Of course, that's more pertinent to prospects like Darryn Peterson or Jerry Easter, and not "White Chocolate" Troyer out of Berlin Hiland.
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Although... I do think state champion kids should be remunerated by the OHSAA for being shills for the "Big Chocolate Milk" lobby. Official drink, eh? Pay up!
The one interesting takeaway was...
Tim Stried said:"Our student athletes are probably not fully aware of bylaw 4-10, and there are some school administrators that aren’t even aware of that," Stried said. "We need to educate everybody so that we don’t have any high school student athletes accepting money for advertising any product or site. ... Long story short, the high school student athlete cannot capitalize on his or her name, image or likeness at this point."
I suspect we won't actually ever see NIL*compensation come to Ohio HS athletics. It's just pretty apparent, for literally everyone to see, how that's going to result in a "picking Winners versus Losers" situation. Nationally, the only indication NIL at the secondary level would "affect" (hurt?) Ohio is the small handful of HS athletes that obviously have big name potential in non-football sports going to out of state factories like Huntington Prep (WV), La Lumiere (IN) or wherever and making bank. Of course, that's more pertinent to prospects like Darryn Peterson or Jerry Easter, and not "White Chocolate" Troyer out of Berlin Hiland.
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Although... I do think state champion kids should be remunerated by the OHSAA for being shills for the "Big Chocolate Milk" lobby. Official drink, eh? Pay up!