Local high school coaches, ADs react to new policy expanding NIL opportunities

Local high school coaches, ADs react to new policy expanding NIL opportunities

Welcome to the wild Midwest. Or at least that’s how some reactions to Tuesday’s news of MHSAA’s approval of an expanded NIL policy are portraying the landscape. The governing body’s representative council has moved to expand the initial guidelines it created in October 2023 that only had allowed for simple permissible benefits like student-athletes receiving compensation for holding camps and clinics or conducting private lessons. But perhaps tr…