If you've followed college sports, you know athletes used to be unpaid amateurs, but recent changes have flipped the script entirely. You'll learn how a new rule called NIL is letting college basketball players earn serious money, radically reshaping the game and its future.
The search for "VCU basketball coach" recently spiked because their highly successful coach, Ryan O'Connor, unexpectedly resigned, citing the challenges of NIL.
O'Connor, who led VCU to multiple NCAA tournament appearances, publicly stated that the new Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) landscape made his job unsustainable.