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Nick Stevens talks Senate Bill 636
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Editor of high school O T dot com. Uh, you know what, I'm not even sure that pertains to our conversation, but it's entertaining. Uh, and I love B dot And I just thought that you might enjoy hearing that too. Uh All right. So when we talked yesterday it was a done deal. It was, it was passed at a 15 3 vote. N I L uh, will be, would, would be the lay of the land in high school athletics as of July one. and then the state legislature, uh, gets passed, uh, state Bill or Senate bill 6 36 which basically cut the legs out of it. Is that correct? Yeah. Well, first of all, I just want to say, um, you're not gonna have kids making a lot more money than I know that, uh, not gonna happen. Uh, yesterday, they, they said the average high school N I L deal was between 60 and 100 and $20. And if that's going to ruin the locker room, we've got the, uh, it's just not gonna happen, um, in terms of the state legislature. So the state legislature has a series of bills that they've been putting through, that would impact high school athletics at different levels. Senate Bill 6 36 is one that would really strip the N C H S A of much of its authority to do anything to govern high school sport. Uh, yesterday, that was uh, amended, uh, shortly after the board of directors passed this N I L policy. It was amended to say that the N C H S A does not have the authority to uh decide amateur rules, including name, image and likeness policies that, that sits with the state Board of Education. Um So yes, that means that what the, the, what the N C H S A board of directors did yesterday is for now null and void. That said this bill in terms of that doesn't really change that much to be honest with you because after pass legislation that they uh got through, that was trying to take authority away from the N C H S A, uh this has been an ongoing thing for like two or three years now. Um The anything that the N C H S A passes, any new rule or rule change has to be approved by the State Board of Education. So that would include an I L. So, uh this was already going to have to go through a review process anyway. Um So, you know, I think that this is more of a political uh statement from the senators who have been going after the N C H S A than it was a material change. Um You know, I do think that one of the other amendments made in this bill that, that puts language in there, it allows the state superintendent to unilaterally uh get rid of the agreement that they have with the N C H S A A to continue to run high school sports in North Carolina with just six months notice.