12-01-2018, 08:10 AM
Interesting post at Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/heres-a-fair-way-to...1830703869
Most interesting part of the proposal, IMO:
"...[the NCAA] could always equalize compensation in other ways. How about tuition for graduate education? Or, if education really is as important as the NCAA claims, by placing deferred compensation into trust funds that athletes could access following graduation or upon the completion of a minimum number of credit hours."
Most of the proposal is pretty bad, and hopefully (for the author) more of an attempt to highlight NCAA hypocrisy than an attempt at a reasonable alternative. But that little part was interesting to me. If people in charge of these kinds of things were interested in encouraging kids to care about school and compensate them for time invested, that seems like a good option. It would only have a marginal effect on one-and-dones or athletes with no interest in anything beyond a path to the pros, but for everyone else it would make a lot of sense.
Most interesting part of the proposal, IMO:
"...[the NCAA] could always equalize compensation in other ways. How about tuition for graduate education? Or, if education really is as important as the NCAA claims, by placing deferred compensation into trust funds that athletes could access following graduation or upon the completion of a minimum number of credit hours."
Most of the proposal is pretty bad, and hopefully (for the author) more of an attempt to highlight NCAA hypocrisy than an attempt at a reasonable alternative. But that little part was interesting to me. If people in charge of these kinds of things were interested in encouraging kids to care about school and compensate them for time invested, that seems like a good option. It would only have a marginal effect on one-and-dones or athletes with no interest in anything beyond a path to the pros, but for everyone else it would make a lot of sense.