When the College Sports Commission was first established, its main focus was to regulate student-athlete compensation issues and oversee name, image and likeness deals. To qualify for review, those deals had to be worth at least $600.
In a recent memo to Division I schools, the CSC announced that moving forward, NIL deals valued under $2,500 do not need to be reviewed by the governing body so long as the student-athlete does not make more than $15,000 total.
According to WHAS, the CSC hopes that by raising the minimum review amount, it will shorten the review timeline for all deals, as the CSC has recently come under fire for long lead times on approving student-athletes' NIL deals.
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“The CSC will evaluate the effect of the new policy in the coming months to determine whether further adjustments are needed,” the memo said.
The memo continued by saying that deals valued between $600 and $2500 will still need to be submitted to the CSC and will go through a separate review process to ensure they are “for a valid business purpose, related to the promotion or endorsement of goods or services provided to the general public for profit.”
The recent CSC memo is the latest in a series of communications sent by the organization in the past year. In November, the CSC sent a participation agreement to DI schools and in January another memo was sent regarding transfer portal eligibility and guidelines.
