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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2154117, member: 837"]
There's obviously no clean answer here, IMO, b/c the real issue is do these kids have marketability. If you have no market value then it becomes a fairly simple decision -- do you want to play football/basketball in college in return for a scholarship and potentially some development that leads to a pro career or do you just not want to play in college?

I think the bigger issue is how do you compensate those with market value? It would be easy in the case of a video game b/c to me you let them use the players name and then give each kid included in the game some form of (rather minimal) payout. It's like the voice actors on the simpsons -- they have value but could also be replaced, so it hurts their bargaining position a bit. So the way they compensate them is to pay them a really heavy salary per show ($300,000) but they don't own any part of the show and get a really minimal sliver of merchandising.

But in terms of letting players capitalize on jersey sales/merchandise, autographs, etc., I agree that a really popular athlete should be allowed to profit from it, but I don't know how to monitor that b/c it seems like a really, really easy way for a football factory to start using wealthy supporters to essentially pay kids huge salaries.
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