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The opportunity created by the recent enactment of state laws and the suspension of enforcement of NCAA rules to enable intercollegiate athletes’ to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness (NIL) -- potentially realigns the conflicts of interest that pervade medical treatment decisions by coaches, players, and team physicians without necessarily mitigating those conflicts. The enhanced power of boosters through their funding of collectives, the increased leverage coaches have to urge players holding scholarships and NIL deals to play even while injured, as well as the potentially heightened interest of athletes to enhance their NIL market value could make more fraught the decision-making around whether an athlete at risk of exacerbating an injury or medical condition should play. This Article proposes policy changes that will provide greater and better informed involvement of athletes in their health care decision-making with Team physicians.
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