Name and image is here. The floodgates have opened and now Jordan Bohannon can help sell fireworks. Lo, it is a new era. A couple of Michigan players have signed on with a company that will pair you with athletes so you can play games with them, and Adrien Nunez—who has 1.6 million TikTok followers—launched some merch. Social media!

…as Nuñez received cupping therapy in a training room, he pulled out his phone and filmed his legs. “People on TikTok go viral for literally the dumbest reasons possible,” a voice says in the published clip, which has since been played 116,000 times.

There was a brief Michigan-related kerfuffle when human-type object Darren Rovell tweeted out that Michigan's policy is that athletes have to file their deals with the AD a week before they're actually signed, causing 1) a bunch of people saying that's bad and dumb and 2) an even larger number of people pointing out that Michigan is aligning their policy with state law:

Hi Darren,
That provision exists because of what's currently in the state's NIL statue. That bill doesn't go into effect until 2022 and, in the interim, we recognize this is a fluid landscape & will work collaboratively w/ our students & to their benefit #GoBlue #NIL

— Kurt Svoboda (@ksvoboda) July 1, 2021

It's possible the state will revisit the NIL bill they passed if that actually turns out to be a problem.

Note that the version of NIL that passed is the most permissive, and opens virtually all the doors:

the Council rejected another proposal that — while largely similar — also included the proviso that schools’ NIL policies not allow payments from “any booster, or any person or entity acting on behalf” of the school.

This indicates that the Council was concerned that virtually any restriction in a temporary policy would draw a legal challenge based on the Supreme Court’s ruling last week in the Alston antitrust case.

So the doors are all the way open. Guy Who Sells Cars can give people loaners above-board now. Handshakes are probably going to continue but their relative importance will plummet. 

[After THE JUMP: 420 games!]

Everything's coming up Sethhouse! Yeah Seth is going to jump into this like Scrooge McDuck swan diving into his vault. The Bentley has released 420(!) football games dating from 1930 to 1986. An incredible resource.

We’ve got a dog on the field in the 1941 game vs Illinois. https://t.co/eUWjJL9z6v pic.twitter.com/6cUSM3Qgu6

— Joseph (@JoesAcct) June 23, 2021

Post-lottery mocks. Franz lands 10th in the Athletic's NBA mock draft:

The player: Wagner is an interesting 3-and-D prospect at 6-9. His movement is terrific, with great lateral quickness. He can guard a variety of perimeter players on the ball, but his off-ball instincts are absolutely spectacular. He knows exactly where to be positionally, and his reactivity to get deflections is outstanding. The big question revolves around his shot, which comes and goes far too often. Sometimes, he looks like a legit 40 percent 3-point shooter in the future. Other times, he looks like a 30 percent guy and totally non-confident in the jumper mechanics. Whichever one he is will determine his career. If he becomes that high-level shooter, he’ll be a very high-level role player who starts. If he doesn’t, he’s more in the vein of his brother, Moritz, as an end-of-the-rotation guy.

The thing you may care about the most. Yes, the current NIL permissions appear to allow athletes to negotiate in groups allow athletes to negotiate in groups. A couple of organizations are trying to round up large numbers of athletes:

That’s changing, and now Opendorse and OneTeam Partners are joining forces to deliver group licensing opportunities to athletes, announcing an exclusive partnership days before college athletes will be allowed to monetize their NIL through commercial and endorsement deals for the first time. OneTeam said it sees significant untapped group licensing opportunity in the college space, particularly with the infrastructure it already has in place to bring licensed products to market quickly.

By partnering with Opendorse, OneTeam will have a tech-based way to aggregate college athlete rights without any sort of college athlete union or players association.

Aaaaand yep the thing you want is potentially on the table:

"There’s a level of fairness and opportunity that group licensing brings that should be really appealing to all the college athletes [because it] allows for something like a video game to come to life that could include all of the athletes on a given football team. It’s not going to just be the star quarterback.”

EA has repeatedly stated that they would love to pay players so that NCAA Football can return, and now those wheels are in motion.

It might happen. Owen Power's already stated he's leaning towards a return to Michigan next year, and now Matt Beniers has joined him:

"I'm definitely leaning towards coming back," Beniers said. "We're going to have a really good group, a lot of good players, and we're going to get a real run at a national title. I definitely want to win a Big Ten championship and kind of do that whole college thing after getting closed down last year because of COVID." …

"I'd love to be in college, kind of have a college life, especially after last year, we didn't really get the full college experience, getting fans at games, didn't get to go to a classroom, going into the classrooms. "

Power recently reiterated his lean to return in a press conference. Michigan's forced COVID withdrawal appears to have a silver lining.

The most detailed report. If you want to know as much as possible about incoming D Luke Hughes this is comprehensive:

Etc.: Chris Peters scouting reports on Power, Beniers, and Dylan Duke. TSN on Kent Johnson and Hughes. Michigan will play @ UNC in the ACC/B10 challenge. Three men's gymnastics athletes are headed to the Olympics. Long NBA draft roundtable at Prospective Insight doesn't actually mention Franz Wagner but I thought it was interesting all the same. Go quiz nerds.