PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) - College Athletics is going through a change as the NIL (Name, Image and Likeness) recommendations have been made by the NCAA and West Virginia Women's Soccer Head Coach Nikki-Izzo Brown says she agrees with the name, image and likeness decision.
"I'm 100% behind it," said Izzo-Brown. "I think that it's a choice. I do think with social media there's a huge market with my sport in particular."
This decision is going to be a learning curve for all involved, but it will in the end be a benefit to the athletes.
"A lot of what I had to learn is that on Instagram you can get sponsorships, you can get a product to sponsor you."
Izzo-Brown goes on to say that, "It will be very interesting to see the level of what kind of money that can be made."
As with anything, there could be some problems with this, but University Athletic Departments will just have to manage it and coaches will need to talk to the athletes about it.
Izzo-Brown also gets into the decsion in the USWNT's case against U.S Soccer and how they may have lost one argument, but they should be able to win the second argument.
"I mean, I think it's two-fold for our women's national team," said Izzo-Brown. "A lot of it was through the equal pay act, the civil rights act that was violated in their work place, but a lot of it was just about the investment in the women's game."
The last CBA that the USWNT players signed could be hurting them in their arguments for equal pay.
"That CBA that they did sign, they signed it and if it was a mistake it was on them because they singed it," said Izzo-Brown. "At the end of the day, I think their feeling that at that point they just wanted to be paid and now what our hope is for anybody that has that success is they have more value to their product and their accomplishments and what they're doing."