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The grown-ups in the room should have spent more time thinking this through - how to responsibly roll out a new era of financial compensation for student-athletes - rather than just throw open Pandora’s Box.īut, instead, the NCAA has left it to the student-athletes to figure this mess out, while dodging a bullet itself. When they are in a better and more mature place in life to handle the money responsibly.Īny alternative, to be honest, looks better than what the NCAA has just done: Told student-athletes they finally can do something, but given them no guidance or assistance in how to do it. Colleges and universities pull in billions from sports - from broadcast rights, merchandising rights, sponsorships and the like - and there’s no reason in the world student-athletes should not share in that.Īnd that money then should be put into a trust that the student-athletes can’t touch until they are 28 to 30 years old. Rather than be completely freed to market themselves individually, with all the pitfalls that presents, student-athletes should receive a straight-up percentage of the revenue from their respective sport. Is there a solution? Is there a more workable balance? There is, and I’ve been preaching it for years. And we all know how much coaches love distractions. It all threatens to become a huge distraction from education - and from sports - for student-athletes. What will be their office hours? What will happen to their grades? If there’s an opportunity to make some money during class time, what will be their priority? But now they’re supposed to handle marketing, endorsements and a schedule of personal experiences? The NCAA has been arguing for years that student-athletes don’t have enough time even to be students. Not a parent.ĭo student-athletes even have time for this?
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Really? When I played for the Chicago Bears, I hired a professional marketing firm to handle this stuff. on July 1, several student-athletes announced they had formed their own businesses to handle their marketing and endorsements. What about the school that simply can’t afford to hire more staff? Will responsibility for managing all these instant small business decisions now fall solely on the student-athlete?Īt 12:01 a.m. But will they? These are the same schools still trying to recover from the unexpected costs and layoffs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some colleges and universities have said they’ll hire someone to manage al this others say they’ll outsource the job. A student-athlete can sign autographs at the local supermarket, while another student-athlete signs a shoe/apparel contract and yet a third says, “If you send me $10, I’ll send you an autographed photo.”īut who is going to administer all of this? Who is going to police all the possible ways student-athletes could be exploited? Only a handful of players - quarterbacks, running backs and a few others - will make the “big bucks.” Most other student-athletes won’t.ĭon’t worry, that won’t cause any drama in the locker room.Īt face value, this opportunity looks pretty good. The NCAA just told 18-to-21-year-olds to go out and get endorsement deals, do appearances and market themselves - and, hey, don’t forget to pay your taxes on all that. So I generally favor allowing student-athletes to be compensated in big-time college sports, but it should be done properly, in a safe environment, not in the “Wild West” manner of the NCAA’s new policy. But that opportunity didn’t exist in 1987, the year I received a football scholarship to the University of Notre Dame. My mom and I sure could have used an extra $10, $100 or $1,000 back when I was a student-athlete. As a former student-athlete, former college athletic administrator and kid who grew up far below the poverty line, I’m actually torn by the NCAA’s decision, adopted on July 1, to allow student-athletes to benefit financially from their name, image and likeness.