NCAA votes to allow athletes to cash in on their fame

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

By RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Sports Writer

The NCAA Board of Governors took the first step Tuesday toward allowing athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to clear the way for the amateur athletes to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness."

The United States' largest governing body for college athletics realized that it "must embrace change to provide the best possible experience for college athletes," the board said in a news release issued after the vote at Emory University in Atlanta.

The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules regarding amateurism. The board asked each of the NCAA's three divisions to create the necessary new rules beginning immediately and have them in place no later than January 2021.

"The board is emphasizing that change must be consistent with the values of college sports and higher education and not turn student-athletes into employees of institutions," said board chair Michael V. Drake.



FILE - In this April 19, 2019, file photo, an athlete stands near a NCAA logo during a softball game in Beaumont, Texas. The NCAA is poised to take a significant step toward allowing college athletes to earn money without violating amateurism rules. The Board of Governors will be briefed Tuesday, Oct. 29 by administrators who have been examining whether it would be feasible to allow college athletes to profit of their names, images and likenesses. A California law set to take effect in 2023 would make it illegal for NCAA schools in the state to prevent athletes from signing personal endorsement deals. (AP Photo/Aaron M. Sprecher, File)

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[Archae]

1. ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!

The colleges and especially coaches were making millions, it's past time the players got a share.

[get the red out]

4. Agree!

I live in a college town and athletes' names and likenesses are used profusely to make money for their institution and the conference.

[Perseus]

5. I agree, but as long as academics are a priority

Th academic requirements must be set high.

[Miigwech]

10. I agree with you!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Great

They all need a Tesla and 14 pounds of gold chains

[YOHABLO]

6. Took the words right out my mouth.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. It's about education, am-I-rite? /nt

[YOHABLO]

8. Education? What's education?

[paleotn]

11. It's never been about education. That's merely a farce.

The NFL farm clubs simply rent the names. And now, like minor league baseball, they players actually get to benefit from their labors.

[MichMan]

19. Except all minor league players get paid, not just a few

Very few college athletes ever make it up to the professional level

[paleotn]

21. And very few minor leaguers ever make it to the show.

That said, I propose we divide the FBS in two. The power conferences form a professional minor league in football and basketball. They can keep renting university names if the like, but with the honest admission that they do not have anything to do with actual academics. For all practical purposes, that's the world we live in now, minus the honest part. Better yet, form loose associations with professional teams like minor league baseball. Those universities who can't or don't want to be affiliated with such can move to the other half of FBS, a true amateur league. At the very least, it will end the hypocrisy.

[Hunt 4 Blue November]

3. This is Good

But how about a decent stipend for the non-famous?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Richard Burr will introduce legislation to treat scholarships as taxable income

HumanScumHat Retweeted

Weird how the near-religious devotion to tax cuts suddenly vanishes when the main beneficiaries of this rule change will be minority students... 🤔

Link to tweet

[paleotn]

12. Protecting UNC and Duke basketball...

The money must flow to those who don't actually earn it.

[roamer65]

22. Only if we tax religion.

[olddad65]

13. This will end college sports as we have known them.

Why not let the let the NBA and NFL develope their own minor league systems.

[oldsoftie]

14. yep.

[JudyM]

15. Sadly true.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. Giving young, mostly black men ownership of their own talent and labor magically turns....

HumanScumHat Retweeted

Giving young, mostly black men ownership of their own talent and labor magically turns area Republican into redistributionist.

Link to tweet

[Blue_Tires]

17. Dumb, but at least it's in incremental step

in the right direction...

The four-year offensive lineman with no NFL prospects worked just as hard, went to just as many practices and participated in just as many games as the All-American WR who's going top 10 in the draft... Why does he get the shaft?

[MichMan]

18. Wonder what those same lineman will do when they are expected to block

and sacrifice their bodies for a teammate making large sums of money while they get zilch

[Maxheader]

20. Good!!

They can take that money and apply it to tuition, books and pencils...A tutor...