...just allow them to benefit if it is at all possible?
There is lots and lots of talk about paying student-athletes in a form of a stipend as if they are on payroll to the University...however, that is messy as hell as it would violate all kinds of Title XI codes and just isn't feasible (how do you pay a backup lineman in comparison to Tim Tebow?). I also hear plenty of other complicated ideas as how to correct the issue of players taking benefits...
Why not this...
Just allow them to benefit.
Does accepting a scholarship with room and board not already violate the idea of amateurism? Wouldn't paying players on some sort of stipend violate the same idea? However, is benefiting from your likeness or status truly a violation of amateurism?
All of this seems so convoluted. Why can't players just simply benefit?
Sounds like an easy solution to a now convoluted issue.
Thoughts on this and other alternatives to paying players.
There is lots and lots of talk about paying student-athletes in a form of a stipend as if they are on payroll to the University...however, that is messy as hell as it would violate all kinds of Title XI codes and just isn't feasible (how do you pay a backup lineman in comparison to Tim Tebow?). I also hear plenty of other complicated ideas as how to correct the issue of players taking benefits...
Why not this...
Just allow them to benefit.
Does accepting a scholarship with room and board not already violate the idea of amateurism? Wouldn't paying players on some sort of stipend violate the same idea? However, is benefiting from your likeness or status truly a violation of amateurism?
All of this seems so convoluted. Why can't players just simply benefit?
Sounds like an easy solution to a now convoluted issue.
Thoughts on this and other alternatives to paying players.
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