(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.

The problem is its easy for this "endorsement/name and likeness" thing to essentially morph into buying players. Lets say, Phil Knight at Nike decides to give every Oregon player a nice $100K "endorsement" deal. Maybe a local car dealership in Alabama is suddenly struck by the belief that Crimson Tide players and recruits would help sell cars. Its not hard to see how this could escalate quickly. The landscape differs somewhat from olympic sports.