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[QUOTE="Moontan, post: 974513, member: 166"]
The whole point is that there are academic scholarship students who get everything paid for and are able to work to earn any money to earn anything extra.

Yes student athletes get better meals, extra tutoring, training facilities, etc.. They are still faced with expenses that some other scholarship students don't face. In addition, they're expected to put in a lot of hours to "earn" their scholarships, miss lots of class time due to travel, are not allowed to earn outside income (and likely couldn't due to their athletic schedules).

Allow schools to pay a stipend to cover the incidentals and the basis for this discussion/complaint goes away.

Just to be clear, I'm opposed to paying players for their play. In fact, I wouldn't pay a dime more than the current offering plus that stipend.

I am curious to know what the NCAA licensing fee is for shirts. I suspect it's less than $1 per shirt. For shirts with players' names on them I could see placing 10% of that fee in a post-graduation account for them. It likely wouldn't add up to much, disappointing many.
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