Legal Niches

NCAA President Acknowledges Inequity in Player Compensation

By james_fudge

NCAA president Mark Emmert said that the organization dedicated to collegiate sports will not stray from its long-standing tenet of not directly paying college sports players.

"It's grossly unacceptable and inappropriate to pay players … converting them from students to employees," Mark Emmert tells USA Today.

But Emmert also acknowledges that it might be time for the organization to spread some of the revenue it generates from licensing around to players in one way or another. While he is not making any promises, Emmert thinks it would be acceptable to compensate players in other ways such as increasing the amount of money paid towards scholarships and other college expenses.

'I will make clear,' he says, 'that I want this to be a subject we explore.' Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).