Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The NCAA created more questions than answers with its announcement on Oct. 29 it will allow student-athletes to profit off the use of their names, images and likenesses at some point in the future.
It was a big step toward giving student-athletes more freedom, but it’s too soon to say how the NCAA will implement the changes. Local coaches and university officials are wary of saying much at this time because there still are so many unknowns.
“I’m always going to be pro whatever benefits our players,” Dayton Flyers men’s basketball coach Anthony Grant said. “I think there’s still a lot to be determined in terms of what the NCAA decides to do with the decisions they’ve made. I’m not sure I know enough to be able to tell you one wary or the other. I know there are some things politically with different states that are going on in conjunction with what the NCAA is going to do. I’m probably taking a wait-and-see approach to see where it goes, but certainly, you want your guys to have the opportunity to benefit as much as possible from whatever the legislation allows them to have.”
Wright State men’s basketball coach Scott Nagy also agrees with giving athletes these new rights.
“No. 1, we live in America,” Nagy said, “and if you can make money off your likeness or your name, I don’t see why that would be a problem. I think how they regulate it could be a problem because if you have fans or boosters who are very interested in these players who’s going to decide how much money you can pay them to do something and who’s going to decide if that’s too much or that’s not enough. So I think there could be some problems that way, but I don’t see a problem with people being able to make money off their likeness, particularly if other people are.”
