The NCAA plan for player compensation includes more athletes than those playing college football. Players in other college sports will have an opportunity to profit. The range of marketability will be wide, with the most financial benefit accruing to college football and men’s basketball players.
The proposal brings forth a degree of ‘fair labor’ equity to the portion of college sports that generate massive revenue. What could be fair in labor not sharing with management and ownership? America’s market economy justifies the long-debated and often, hoped for, change.
What could go wrong? As the premise of ‘unintended consequences’ defines, not all future wrongs can be known in advance.