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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5296946, member: 12088"] The fundamental value proposition of college is that students are recruited with the prospect of learning and developing life skills. Some of them, including athletes, receive tuition waivers and stipends for living expenses. It would seem outrageous for an institution to require students to forego any and all opportunities to earn money on the side. The only limitation I can make sense of is that students on scholarship must maintain good grades. The proposition becomes even more outrageous when the university actually makes money by showcasing the students while preventing them from profiting in a similar way. The conflict of interest here has been intransigent as long as the NCAA has existed. One way to begin resolving the conflict might be to eliminate athletic scholarships altogether. In their place, student-athletes could be recruited with the assistance of NIL collectives who would help them earn money to cover the costs of tuition room and board. In such an environment there would be no need to measure NIL deals or regulate their earnings. This would extricate the universities from much of what is unseemly in the business of college sports. And the NCAA could return to the core tasks of arranging competition and negotiating things like TV contracts. The need for the House settlement would also be obviated, other than settling the question of whether students should share in those profits. [/QUOTE]