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[QUOTE="Ozcuse, post: 3110618, member: 766"]
I’m not arguing against military members being paid more, please stay on topic.

Ok, I will say that military members should be able to profit off their likeness too! Oh wait, THEY ALREADY CAN!

You have not made a good argument why student athletes who risk their bodies and future careers to play sports and make billions of dollars for the NCAA and their respective schools should not be allowed to make money off their own likeness.

I had a full academic scholarship, I worked off campus as well and if for some reason a company wanted to pay for my likeness there was no reason they couldn’t. Olympic sport athletes also receive full scholarships and they are allowed to make money off their likeness. Kyler Murray received a 4.7 million baseball signing bonus and was still eligible to play football because it wasn’t “football money”. These rules are only in place for the revenue sports of football and basketball. How is this equal to other students and athletes?

You are arguing and confusing issues that aren’t relevant: payment from schools (this isn’t that) vs free market and title ix (this isn’t that) vs NCAA rules.

Also your “think of the other athletes!” argument is a fallacy. Other sports existed before billion dollar tv contracts and university apparel deals would continue to exist if this goes through.

What is your bias? Employed by ncaa or university? Have a daughter whose athletic scholarship is subsidized by football or basketball money? Some perverse satisfaction of white ncaa/college administration controlling black student athletes? Just don’t like change?
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