NCAA sets new benefits for athletes, drawing some praise from Congress The NCAA Division I Board of Directors on Wednesday unanimously voted to require schools to provide a series of new benefits for college athletes that includes enhanced health-care coverage and funding for completion of undergraduate degrees after their playing careers end, the association announced. The changes, set to take effect in August 2024, are among those recommended in January by a Transformation Committee that had been charged with a wide-ranging examination of the future of major-college sports.
These new benefits have nothing to do with NIL These are enhanced scholarship offerings. Better injury health care after college career. Ability to come back and finish degree if on full scholarship. Improved mental health care. Better life skills training.
