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Jason Stahl, executive director of the College Football Players Association advocacy group, says lawmakers should create a special status for college athletes that would give them the right to ...
A common refrain exists in most discussions regarding the potential right for NCAA college athletes to be paid for their services: the argument that college are already paid by virtue of their receipt of in-kind benefits including room and board, daily meals, and a full athletic scholarship. According to these commentators, college athletes do ...
Since the turn of the 21st century, a debate has arisen over whether college athletes should be paid. [55] Although the earliest of star athletes were known to have received a variety of types of compensation (including endorsement fees), benefits to college athletes outside of academic scholarships have largely been prohibited under NCAA ...
The newest arms race in major college athletics is name, image and likeness or NIL compensation. In practice, NIL policy rests on the hyphen of the phrase “student-athlete,” a compromise of ...
There are a host of details still to be determined, but the agreement calls for the NCAA and the conferences to pay $2.77 billion over 10 years to more than 14,000 former and current college athletes who say now-defunct rules prevented them from earning money from endorsement and sponsorship deals dating to 2016.
If athletes are deemed employees, Phillips believes universities can pay athletes in sports that make revenue (football and basketball) and then, to satisfy Title IX, would pay an “equivalent ...
The decision allows schools to provide their athletes with unlimited compensation as long as it is some way connected to their education. The idea that college athletes should not be paid, a fundamental tenet of the 115-year-old NCAA, has faced increasing scrutiny in recent years.
Over the past five years, students have paid nearly $90 million in mandatory athletic fees to support football and other intercollegiate athletics — one of the highest contributions in the country. A river of cash is flowing into college sports, financing a spending spree among elite universities that has sent coaches’ salaries soaring and ...