COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’s clear that one major hope with Ohio State athletics under new athletic director Ross Bjork is the future of the university’s NIL program. Specifically, what it can become with the backing Ohio State can provide. “He worked with the Texas legislature and the NCAA in the changing NIL landscape,” Ohio State president Ted Carter said Wednesday at Bjork’s introduction. “He oversaw the largest fundraising efforts in the history of Texas A&M athletics.” Bjork, who joined Texas A&M in 2019, helped lead up a football program that was known as one of the more aggressive NIL programs in the nation. “No one really knows what reality really is in the NIL space,” Bjork said. “Unless they’re on your campus and they’re turning in the contracts to your compliance office, which is the healthy part of any NIL program. That’s reality. We don’t really know what’s happening across…
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