{"id":399960,"date":"2024-06-04T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399960"},"modified":"2024-06-04T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:04:09","slug":"nil-approved-for-florida-prep-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399960","title":{"rendered":"NIL approved for Florida prep athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida has joined other states &#8212; 35 of them &#8212; and approved NIL language for high school athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes, who could not be paid a few years ago due to NCAA college rules, can now earn money for the Name Image Likeness on the prep level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floridahsfootball.com\/2024\/06\/04\/live-updates-fhsaa-to-vote-on-nil-open-division-playoff-bracket-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Per FloridaHSfootball.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>NIL:\u00a0<\/strong>FHSAA BOD has unanimously approved the NIL language which makes Florida the 36th state to adopt NIL language for high school athletics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This could lead to more competition for athletes&#8217; services as well as them looking for better places to play sports on the prep level.<\/p>\n<p>The more visibility, the better opportunity for NIL gains. That said, it also gives local businesses the opportunity to cut deals with athletes to keep them in the area &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Florida High School Athletic Association has approved <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NIL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NIL<\/a> for high school players.<\/p>\n<p>There will be high school players who earn more than their coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Hayes (@MattHayesCFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattHayesCFB\/status\/1798048133064372394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Florida high school athletics joins the NIL bandwagon<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399962,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399960\/revisions\/399962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}