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[QUOTE="CuseOnly, post: 2942944, member: 2804"]
Players don't have to be employees to the University or the NCAA for Joe's Auto World to want to pay them for their likeness.

It started with EA sports but that is the tip of the iceburg if this is allowed.

SO lets use another poster's example of how the NCAA or school could potentially limit this...which won't work by the way.  If you make X or below then you get the scholarship or if you make more than X then you have to pay for school.   What is to stop Bill Rapp from adding X to the player's likeness compensation and completely covering school either way?  Yep, nothing.

There is so much money that boosters have that if allowed, kids will start getting paid in HS for likenesses so they go to certain schools.  There is no law stating that a kid can's have a job in HS.  Or an underage kid who might get a "modeling" contract that gets paid to his mom for his likeness as a summer job.

There would be no end but I would love to hear some creative ways to keep it fair because I don't see a way that it possible in any way shape or form.

You can't use a salary cap because it's illegal to cap compensation if someone is willing to pay.  An really, if the kid's likeness is worth that much, then they are entitled to whatever it is worth.
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