So how much could TCU football players earn if they were paid in a free-market system, like their coaches and administrators?
Does $246,465 sound about right?
That’s the “fair-market value” for each of the 85 scholarship players, using a formula developed by Ellen Staurowsky, a sport management professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, whose work was featured in Business Insider.
Staurowsky used the NFL’s revenue-sharing system for her calculations. Under the league’s collective bargaining agreement, players receive a minimum of 47 percent of revenues.
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