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The NCAA Supporting Athlete Compensation Is the Right Thing—and It's Time to Embrace It

It’s going to be a mess.

Do it anyway.

It’s going to be rife with abuse.

Do it anyway.

It’s going to be costly at a time when everyone associated with college sports is hemorrhaging money.

Do it anyway.

The NCAA is finally—finally!—coming out of Castle Amateurism and moving forward with tangible measures to allow compensation for student-athletes. That was the news Wednesday, as NCAA leadership announced its adoption of recommendations from a Name, Image and Likeness working group that toiled for a year to start extricating college sports from the corner it had boxed itself into.