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Rovell: This is how NCAA athletes should be paid for endorsements

The NCAA Board of Governors took a major step on Wednesday as they recommended allowing athletes to capitalize financially on their name, image and likeness.

Formal rules would have to be put in place and they would need to be voted on, but the principle is there. Finally.

The NCAA put forth 31 pages of gobligook to explain how things might work, which reads as trouble because it falls of short of putting a workable plan into action. Since the NCAA couldn’t come up a solution for this conundrum, I will try to do it for them.