🎙️ Both Big Ten and Big 12 Conferences entered a partnership with PayPal, enabling institutional payments from universities to student-athletes through their platform. Additionally, several collectives quickly disbursed the majority of their available funds directly to athletes to finalize payments before stricter oversight around #NIL took effect. Jason Belzer breaks down the significance of these decisions and how they might affect players and universities in upcoming years. 👇 🔗 Watch to the full episode here - lnkd.in/gtmJazfr #SportsTechVC Wayne Kimmel Kenneth Shropshire