MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:tallsy {l Wrote}:My longstanding proposal:
Independent auditor calculates yearly NCAA net profits (TV Income - Cost of All tournaments). 5% for overhead. Maybe a small rainy day fund. Then distribute the rest amongst all student athletes from football to ladies' bowling. It's legally unchallagable regardless of how little each individual athlete would make.
Wouldn't that result in most sports being cut in order to attract the best football and basketball players by giving them a larger percentage of the pie?
If you're dividing it up across NCAA athletes as a whole (or by division), it shouldn't matter. I think tallsy's idea is that every NCAA athlete would get the same payout, whether they're a football player at Alabama or a women's bowler at Southwest Alaska A&M. If that's the case, D1 schools wouldn't be able to gain a recruiting advantage over their rivals by cutting non-revenue sports.
