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Candid Coaches: Let The Players Profit From What Belongs To Them

The latest Candid Coaches column over at CBS is pretty interesting as about 75 percent of coaches support letting players profit from their name, image, and likeness.

That’s a surprising number, even for Gary Parrish, who asked the questions.

As noted here, solving one problem sometimes creates others. For instance, one coach said this: “The one big gray area I foresee is boosters who own businesses guaranteeing some number of dollars in advertising income to prospective recruits that they’ll be given to attend specific schools.”

Another echoed the basic idea: “But where does it stop?