(03-03-2018 06:07 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Endorsements fine. That would make things interesting in the non-revenue sports.

If the NCAA is going to go with the endorsement model it needs to the stop requiring grants in aid for the student athletes. Give them 10k graduate student stipends but let them earn their way through school like everyone else.

Could be better for the universities overall.

Of course the 70k seater programs want all of the attention and exposure to be on the football stadium instead of endorsements for the swim team.

It could lead to a lot of boosters giving endorsement deals to athletes.

I might be fine with it if football and men's basketball were excluded, limiting it to the non-rev. Although maybe that's discriminatory. You might have to exclude women's basketball as well.