[rollo tomasi]

"NCAA is really obsessed with not having athletes make money."

Come on now, the reason were academic integrity, gambling, and nepotism (Through no-show jobs, 2 Live Crew benjamins, coaches throwing hookers at recruits, etc... (Yes happens anyway, but hard as hell to keep quiet after awhile).

If college players want endorsements fine but college athletes must forfeit any and all academic scholarships they are granted in the process.

End one and done in basketball, however, the endorsement idea may even help college basketball to grow household names longer while in college since a high profile players might be able to pull 7 figures in by year 2 or 3.

[discostu]

They were creating an illusion of purity. Same reason the Olympics banned pros for so long. Which then forced all compensation to be below the table, and opened the door for all those known problems. Not hard to keep quiet at all, because you’re making everyone be quiet for everything. Best way to get all that out is with above table money. Once pro athletes started making millions you never got another gambling scandal. Gambling interests just can’t throw enough money at them to matter.

Why should athletes have to forgo scholarships for getting outside jobs? Students in on academic scholarships can get outside jobs and keep their scholarships. That’s part of the problem with all this, athletic scholarships are treated completely different, with more rules, and more severe punishment.

Nothing the NCAA can do about one and done. Not their rule.