What do you call a free six-figure education?
First, it ain't "free." College athletes work hard and risk permanent injury. Second, the colleges are still getting their services to play games, and the colleges are keeping that TV and gate revenue. What this rule change does is allow the students to have control over the sale of their names and images. Colleges shouldn't be able to, say, license a student's name and image to a video game and not give the student any say or a share of the revenue.
But going back to your point, should colleges be able to sell the name and likeness of any student getting scholarship money? What about the kid getting a piddly $1000 grant? Does he lose control of his name and likeness? What's the cutoff?
“What do you call a free six-figure education?”
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Colleges do not provide anything close to an education for a good many of their current - er - students.
But “education” for a jock?
Yes, a very very few do get a great education, but get serious, most of those jokesters on the NCAA side can only write an X where their name should go.
And that’s AFTER they get their (ptui-ptui) boxtop degree.
A cheerleading squad?