[superxero27]

Quote: Originally Posted by BA2929

The NCAA should just allow players to get individual endorsements for their likenesses. If they don't want them doing gambling or porn websites and stuff like that, then allow each university to hire a guy who has to approve the endorsement. Then the big name guys like Manziel can get their money and everyone is happy and this silly argument that happens every single year will finally end. Nobody cares that the backup DT for Akron isn't getting paid. It's all about the big name players being able to capitalize on themselves.

As a regular college student, if someone wanted to pay me money for my autograph I could take it, no problem. If somebody wanted signed copies of the university-published research reports I did as a grad student, that would be no problem.

I understand how paying players formally or via boosters open up huge worm cans for the NCAA, as well as the whole tangled mess that agents bring in, but what exactly would be the problem with allowing student athletes to profit from their likeness the same way as any other student could?

If agents are the concern, simply add some groundrules: you can profit from your likeness with X exceptions...