Part of the landscape
that's changed is NIL
and then the media money
and the things that have
changed drastically everywhere
is Wisconsin
were they behind in terms
of adapting
to that new landscape?
Were they playing
by a different set of rules
than other universities
that may have
taken advantage of
how NIL
was supposed to be used?
We welcome the chance
to be able to
support athletes directly
and I think we would be
we would both welcome
and I think, frankly
many schools
would welcome, a system
that did have clearer
guardrails
and greater clarity
about what was
and wasn't permitted.
We are operating, all of us
in something of a wild west
right now.
That's not the
structural environment
that I think is
really ideal
for the future
success of college athletics.
That's not a Wisconsin issue.
That's not a Big Ten issue.
That's not even an NCAA issue.
That's now a national dynamic.
But I would
love to see
greater clarity
and rules emerge
that would ensure
that we were all playing
by kind of the same rulebook
about what was
and wasn't allowed.