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The age of compensation for athletes in college sports can be more complicated by pending Supreme Court decisions.
Housev. A settlement in the case of the NCAA allows all Division I schools to share their income directly with student-athletes if they receive final approval this month.
Essentially, the current system of NIL compensation has faced a percentage of its scrutiny since summer 2021. However, universities that pay athletes directly erase the “amateurism” that historically defined American university sports.
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Former NFL and college football player Jack Brewer is heavily opposed to the concept.
“We need to go back to being a student-athlete,” Brewer told Fox News Digital.
“If people want the freedom to make as much money as they want and can use sports to do it, they should be able to do it — and they should be able to do it in our professional leagues. But there's no place to pay unlimited money to people in college sports. They should be student-athletes.
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Brewer argued that revenue sharing exacerbates the problems that have been created by the NIL since legalization in 2021. Graduation rate declined.
“Their incentive to go to college is to make money, not to get an education anymore, so we keep looking at students who aren't focused on school,” Brewer said. “It's not right for universities to recruit student-athletes who no longer need to focus on being students because they're exploiting this loophole.”
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US Supreme Court, June 28, 2023, in Washington, DC (Drew Anger/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump was considering an executive order to regulate the names, images and likeness of college sports after meeting with the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide coach, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.
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