Report: NIL coming to Florida? FHSAA putting together proposal for review

Will Florida become the 31st state to approve making NIL’s legal for student athletes?

With Georgia becoming the 30th state, including the District of Columbia, to approve name, image, likeness (NIL) for student athletes, it seems like not a matter of if but when it will trickle throughout the rest of the Southeast region. 

That includes the Peach State's neighbor to the south, when news hit of the GHSA's Monday approval of NIL with optimism that it may reach Florida. According to a report by USA Today's Jon Santucci, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) is working up a draft to do just that and it could come as early as early November. 

In an email from the FHSAA's public relations specialist Ryan Harrison to the USA Today Network, it stated the following: "The FHSAA is currently in the process of drafting a proposal that will be given to our board of directors for review at one of our upcoming meetings."

According to the report by Santucci, that very next meeting would take place November 5-6 and also has meetings scheduled in February, April and June of 2024. 

Florida is one of the 20 states throughout the country that has yet to approve allowing NIL deals for student athletes. Among other notables in the Southeast region are Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Carolina. 

-- Andy Villamarzo | villamarzo@scorebooklive.com | @sblivefl