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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 811551" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>There are athletes that do have a brand apart from their athletics at the school. I do understand wanting to keep college athletics amateur and not allow a school to pay to get athletes to attend the university. How do you balance that with not preventing a person with an actual brand of their name from benefitting from that brand? It is estimated that gymnast Olivia Dunne has signed about $1 million in endorsements. Should she be prevented from making $1 million because she is competing in NCAA gymnastics? There was one poster who said that she should be required to give that $1 million to LSU since they gave her a scholarship. Should she be required to pay LSU $1 million for a $40k scholarship?</p><p></p><p>I don't want NCAA football and basketball to turn into a purely professional sports system. However, when a G5 kicker can't make a few thousand a year from his YouTube channel, a gymnast can't benefit from her social media presence which can earn her more than $1 million, or sisters who play G5 women's basketball can't benefit from their pre-existing social media presence, something is wrong with the amateurism definitions. It will be extremely difficult to make and enforce rules that prevent some level of pay-for-play(or pay to recruit) without affecting student-athletes with legitimate audiences. Using Olivia Dunne as an example, she might not have the same audience in a few years. Maybe related to no longer being at LSU, maybe because she makes a public statement that turns her audience off, maybe because people just feel she is no longer relevant. She might never have an opportunity to make millions again in her life. I would rather see NCAA football and basketball burn to the ground than to see young people in her situation prevented from benefitting from an audience that she built prior to any relationship with LSU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 811551, member: 2426"] There are athletes that do have a brand apart from their athletics at the school. I do understand wanting to keep college athletics amateur and not allow a school to pay to get athletes to attend the university. How do you balance that with not preventing a person with an actual brand of their name from benefitting from that brand? It is estimated that gymnast Olivia Dunne has signed about $1 million in endorsements. Should she be prevented from making $1 million because she is competing in NCAA gymnastics? There was one poster who said that she should be required to give that $1 million to LSU since they gave her a scholarship. Should she be required to pay LSU $1 million for a $40k scholarship? I don't want NCAA football and basketball to turn into a purely professional sports system. However, when a G5 kicker can't make a few thousand a year from his YouTube channel, a gymnast can't benefit from her social media presence which can earn her more than $1 million, or sisters who play G5 women's basketball can't benefit from their pre-existing social media presence, something is wrong with the amateurism definitions. It will be extremely difficult to make and enforce rules that prevent some level of pay-for-play(or pay to recruit) without affecting student-athletes with legitimate audiences. Using Olivia Dunne as an example, she might not have the same audience in a few years. Maybe related to no longer being at LSU, maybe because she makes a public statement that turns her audience off, maybe because people just feel she is no longer relevant. She might never have an opportunity to make millions again in her life. I would rather see NCAA football and basketball burn to the ground than to see young people in her situation prevented from benefitting from an audience that she built prior to any relationship with LSU. [/QUOTE]
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