The NCAAs amateur standards have undoubtedly reached peak uncertainty as of 2022. Court judgments, especially the US Supreme Court decision in Alston in July 2021, and numerous state laws prohibition on denial of NIL payments, have reduced the amateurism standard to a shell of what it was even one year ago. However, the association has made few legislative changes, other that announcing in summer 2021NIL payments are permitted. The major change of their most recent convention was a reorganization that gives conferences and schools more clout.