We get it, Mark Emmert.
You're the president of the NCAA so you don’t want any college athlete to be paid anything. You don’t want athletes who represent their countries on the world's biggest stage to get money from their national governing bodies for winning Olympic medals. You're more comfortable with someone like Texas swimmer Joseph Schooling — who earned $740,000 under Singapore's National Olympic Council awards program for his phenomenal 100 butterfly gold medal-winning swim that beat Michael Phelps — pocketing zero dollars.
We get it.
And here's what you and the NCAA don't get: We don’t mind them getting the money.