With NIL growing, tampering becomes a prevalent issue in college athletics

With NIL growing, tampering becomes a prevalent issue in college athletics

With the official advent of the name, image, and likeness (NIL) policy in college athletics in July of 2021, it had a demonstrable effect on the NCAA Transfer Portal, which began on Oct. 15, 2018. The Transfer Portal is a system which intends to streamline and create more transparency in the process of student-athletes transferring from one college to another. The unintended consequence of the intersection of NIL and the transfer portal is it ha…