The College Sports Commission, the newly established entity overseeing intercollegiate pay-for-play compliance, says it has registered 28,432 athletes on its NIL Go platform and approved 8,359 deals in deals worth a combined $79.8 million through its first two months. The CSC on Friday evening released a correction to that number, saying cleared deals are worth $35.4 million, and that the total value of proposals in the system is closer to $80 million.
The CSC, which has declined to disclose the earnings of its CEO, released an “NIL deal flow report” Thursday, covering college athlete earning activity from its June 11 launch through the end of August.
According to the CSC, its largest approved NIL deal to date exceeds $1.6 million.
NIL Go’s registered user base constitutes a little more than half of the number of college athletes competing in Division I power conferences (50,238 in 2023-24) and 14.4% (196,928 in 2023-24) in all D-I. The dollar volume of approved deals represents only a fraction of the broader NIL market.
In June, Opendorse, the NIL marketplace, released its annual report that projected college athletes would cumulatively earn $1.95 billion in NIL between July 2025 and June 2026—equivalent to $162.5 million per month.
Of the deals so far submitted to the CSC, 332 had not been cleared. The commission attributed most of those delays to incomplete or missing athlete information, incorrect reporting of deal terms, or deals failing to meet the “valid business purpose” requirement under the terms of the House v. NCAA settlement agreement. So far, 75 deals have been re-submitted after initially being denied, and none of the disputes has so far gone to arbitration. Then again, it’s early.
The CSC reported that an average of 1,658 athletes, 507 schools and 97 player representatives or agents have actively used its platforms each week.
(This story has been updated in the headline and in the first paragraph with corrected deal values provided by the CSC.)
