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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not opposed to it necessarily but realistically the majority of athletes across all NCAA sports would get paid less than the value of a scholarship or nothing. Obviously I know many of them don’t even have any athletics scholarship money, but on the other hand those athletes wouldn’t be highly “paid” or paid at all in any market sense either. It does cost money for institutions to run many of these programs. Sometimes alumni endowments can help a lot if the program isn’t especially revenue generating. But it’s still not going to be realistic to run the program and also pay out salaries.

Even in non NCAA sports many professional/Olympic level athletes barely make money and it’s nothing like the NFL. Some are barely funded by sports specific funds or a combination of that and family contribution/savings. It seems pretty naive to think the NCAA will be any different because some schools make a lot of money off football.

On the other hand, you have (relatively few) athletes who are missing out on a lot of money and being exploited in the sense they’re making a lot of money for the institution that they will never see a cut of.

Even before the NIL changes I thought that athletes should at least be allowed to put brand deal money in some kind of trust until after their NCAA obligations. Maybe some kind of trust situation would work for revenue sharing as well. And you have to fulfill certain obligations and graduate to get the full amount. Not sure about the practicality of that in a legal sense but it’s my first thought. [/quote]

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