Let the players play in the minors during the off season..
http://www.ubbullrun.com/2013/3/20/41234...y-for-play
The NCAA should allow scholarship players to get paid off season to trade their craft and here is how it could work.
Example Baseball:
Let NCAA players sign a one year deal with minor league team to play between the end of the college season and the beginning of the next. If the Batavia Muckdogs want to pay Matt Pollock for a few months of work why should it concern the University? There is the risk of injury but these players are all adults, albeit young ones, who should be allowed to make such decisions.
The win for the Muckdogs is access!
Batavia would be the chance to get the use of out Athletes who's training expenses are largely picked up by UB. For nine months of the year Pollock trains using UB weights, coaches, and facilities.
The win for Pollock is a chance to earn money plying his art.
I used my training in engineering to earn money while still working on my degree. There is no reasonable reason these players should not be able to do the same. It would also give student athletes the chance to develop some career networks for future employment in any facet of the sporting industry.
The win for the School
Pollock would have a chance to up his game by playing with professionals during the off season. More than that it provides a way to handle the pay for play issues without hitting the budgets of Athletics departments.
It also nicely puts the issue to title IX to rest. There would be no stress on the Universities to worry about what paying your football players means for you're field hockey team. The current debate is clouded by Title IX because the specifics of it's implementation an entirely political process, not a legislative one. The players who "earn money" for the school are usually boys so usually the focus has been just paying your football and basketball players.