The time and resources that it takes for top level high school athletes to perform is truly a family commitment from buying athletic equipment to the transportation costs for games, practices, and other athletic events. In the midst of catastrophe devastation in the state of North Carolina and some southern states due to hurricane damage, a North Carolina judge recently ruled that public-school athletes in the state such as Faizon Brandon can profit from NIL. That news was understandably overshadowed by the effects of hurricane damage but is news on a much smaller scale.