Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz says current NIL model is a ‘broken system’

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Name, image, and likeness (NIL) has dominated the college football conversation during the offseason, and it continued at the SEC’s spring meetings in Destin, Florida. 

Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz was asked about the future of student-athlete compensation on Tuesday, with Drinkwitz saying he was unsure of what is to come. 

Missouri Tigers head coach Eli Drinkwitz in the fourth quarter of a college football game between the Missouri Tigers and Kansas State Wildcats on Sept. 10, 2022 at Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"I think the future is unknown," Drinkwitz told reporters. "I think we’re in a very unknown situation" 

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"I know that in my opinion, right now, what we have is a broken system that needs some sort of guidance," he continued. "We’ve been criticized for our state law, which I think is unfair. We don’t criticize other people for being innovative in what they try to design for offense or defense or how they run their schemes to try to create an opportunity for success. So, why would we be criticized for creating an opportunity for success for us through our state laws? 

"So, I don’t believe that’s a fair criticism by anybody. And I think it’s an unknown situation. Until there’s some sort of crisis, I would assume to create it, create some streamlined standards, I don’t know that there’ll be a change."

Missouri House Bill 417 passed in early May, allowing in-state recruits to begin profiting off of NIL as soon as they sign with