Payments to College Athletes Now Legal, Still Hidden

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An investigation by NBC affiliate WRAL in Raleigh, N.C., found that trying to track how much college athletes are making in the new era of name, image and likeness deals is no easier than before, when athletes cashed in under the table.

WRAL Investigates found the three big schools in its coverage area — the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State and Duke — all have different internal rules for tracking NIL deals. Some require athletes to report deals to the athletic department. Others require reporting deals to their teams, while in some cases, NIL deals don’t need to be reported at all. That’s a problem, according to Frank LoMonte, who heads up the University of Florida’s Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, "Everybody’s gotta be on a level playing field."

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