Word came out yesterday that the NCAA now supported athletes making money based on their likeness and this is the first common sense statement that the NCAA has released in some time.
Allowing players to make money on who they are doesn’t take away from what we have come to love about college athletics, not one bit. Two years ago, former Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray made more than $3 million from his baseball contract and no one batted an eyelash.
This is no different.
According to Dennis Dodd of CBS, the NCAA has laid the following ground rules that schools and athletes have to follow.