Sometimes, the key to interpreting the law lies not in what it says-but in what it leaves unsaid. In the summer of 2021, shortly after the NCAA adopted its interim name, image, and likeness (NIL) policy,

President Trump signed an executive order that looks to end "third-party, pay-for-play" NIL payments for college athletes. Here's what it means.

The CSC's initial guidance on NIL ruffled the feathers of both collectives and lawyers, and so the enforcement agency reworked the policy, per The Athletic. The updated guidance from the CSC suggests that the way some collectives have operated in the past -- enticing athletes to play for a school via pay-for-play -- does not meet its criteria.