LSU's Brian Kelly says college sports are 'in jeopardy' if NIL 'doesn't get fixed'

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High-ranking members of the SEC are fighting for name, image, and likeness regulations, including LSU head coach Brian Kelly.

Kelly joined Alabama's Nick Saban and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in Washington, D.C. earlier this month to meet with lawmakers to make a case for federal assistance in regulating how college athletes can earn money off their fame.

Kelly said changes need to happen sooner rather than later.

"College athletics is at a crossroads if this doesn't get fixed," Kelly recently told ESPN.

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Head coach Brian Kelly of the LSU Tigers on the sidelines during the Arkansas Razorbacks game on Nov. 12, 2022, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

"We needed to do something," Kelly continued. "There needed to be some publicity behind it. There needed to be at least an education at the committee level where they had more than just what California is trying to do."

"Look, I think, more than anything else, they hear it now – that college sports is in jeopardy," Kelly addd. "It's not just football. I didn't have to be there. [Saban] didn't have to be there. We'll be OK. Yeah. At the end of the day, the big schools, the big oil companies, they all survive."

Kelly thought the meeting was productive, and hoped a bill could be proposed by August that could garner support.

"If there's nothing on the floor or in committee by the end of July, then we'll know that they can't produce something," he said.

Coach Brian Kelly during the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl between the LSU Tigers and the Purdue Boilermakers on Jan. 2, 2023, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. (David