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Message: [QUOTE="McLovin, post: 3270861, member: 9450"] While I am against paying college athletes for just playing a sport, I do understand the argument to compensate them for uses of their likeness. Here is what I have always wanted to see when they went down the route of compensating college kids. 1. No pay to play. They already get free tuition and annual stipend of a few thousand dollars. At larger D1 schools, athletes also get a bunch of additional free swag (shoes, apparel, etc.) 2. No "endorsements" allowed. As someone mentioned earlier, big time donors will create phony endorsements to get athletes. Schools with billionaire alumni would be able to basically buy players by offering massive endorsement deals if this isn't regulated. 3. Athletes should only be compensated for revenue generated tied to their likeness (mostly this would be jersey sales and MAYBE a portion of the ticket / tv revenue depending on how they are used to market the events, but that gets complicated). 4. This is the key point... the money is held in a trust by the school and only distributed to the athlete AFTER they graduate with a degree and qualifying GPA. If the player leaves early to go pro, transfer or drop out, they forfeit the money to the school, which will be used to repay tuition cost and other expenses related to that athlete during their tenure there. [/QUOTE]