By Robert | Feb 3, 2023. I get on the bus and I immediately feel the need to let the players know I’m not a narc. There’s ten guys all between the ages of 19-23 and then some random 50 year-old (me) riding with them. I know several of the players...
By JEREMY WERNER Jan 30, 12:01 AM Ten Illinois football players were paid on Saturday to attend a watchparty with Illinois fans. Organized by the Illini Guardians collective, the Illini players were bused from Champaign to Chicago to meet and greet about 350 Illinois...
By Ethan Simmons, The News Gazette. Photo by: Robin Scholz/The News-GazetteThe last year has proved a few of NIL’s possibilities. It’s grown and started businesses, been the basis of college-level courses, and as many argue, become a necessary recruitment...
The marketplace for college athletes to engage in Name/Image/Likeness (NIL) deals was created last year after the NCAA v. Alston case and now it seems like every college is ready to start spreading the wealth. There are already more than 100 “collectives” either in...
After the Covid-19 crisis left 1 in 5 Illinois children suffering from food insecurity, a group of nine University of Illinois football linemen have decided to use their celebrity to “Help Tackle Hunger” across the state. The “Help Tackle Hunger” program was the...
August 26, 2022 Open Letter from Josh Whitman Introducing NIL Impact To Fighting Illini everywhere, In just one year’s time, the name, image and likeness phenomenon (NIL) has transformed high-major collegiate athletics. The newly created opportunity for...
