On Tuesday, the FHSAA’s board will vote on a number of proposals, but two are the clear-cut headliners. The chance for athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness and the addition of a championship division in all major team sports will go up for a board vote.
News4JAX VARSITY– The Florida High School Athletic Association is set to make two very important and sports-shaping decisions at next week’s final board of directors meeting of the school year, including a vote to allow prep athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness.
On Tuesday, the FHSAA’s board will vote on a number of proposals, but two are the clear-cut headliners — the chance for athletes to profit off their NIL, and the addition of a championship division in all major team sports will go up for a board vote.NIL has the potential to be the biggest change ever to high school sports here, a total 180 from how it’s been since the inception of amateur sports.
On Tuesday, it will come up for a vote for the first time. There’s little doubt that NIL in Florida high schools is just a matter of when and not if. That would open the door for elite blue-chip local football players like Solomon Thomas , Jaime Ffrench, Tramell Jones and Drake Stubbs and Elyiss Williams to earn significant money while in high school. Those players are all rankedBartram Trail girls lacrosse star Ryann Frechette.
Using last year’s top eight teams in the state, that would have meant Cocoa , St. Thomas Aquinas , Clearwater Central Catholic and Plantation American Heritage in one bracket, and Chaminade-Madonna , Miami Norland , Lake Mary and Gainesville Buchholz in the second bracket. The winners from each bracket would face off for the championship division title.
The championship division is essentially a compromise after a vote to scrap the two-year experiment of the Suburban-Metro playoff system, which put schools in the largest eight counties in Florida in their own division. It was done largely to thin out competitive balance in the state. A championship or an open division would seem to help push some of the teams that have had monopolies on state titles and title game appearances.
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