The NCAA has made a profit on the careers of young college athletes across all sports for decades, with players being forbidden from earning money based on their name image and likeness up until 2 years ago.The NCAA needs to continue to allow college athletes to earn money based on their name image and likeness and it is the right thing to do based on recruiting strategies by coaches, players’ commitment to the sport, as well as the players’ background.
The NCAA needs to continue to allow college athletes to earn money based on their name, image, and likeness, and it is the right thing to do based on recruiting strategies by coaches. New Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders recently said during an interview when asked about scouting defensive lineman “Defensive linemen, it’s totally opposite — single mama, trying to get it, he’s on free lunch…. I’m talking about just trying to make it. He’s trying to rescue mama, like mama barely made the flight.” This highlights the problem with college sports and recruiting tactics with recruiting based on background, as the coaches are looking for poor young teenagers and trying to opportunize off their talent, while up until recently not letting the players’ opportunize off their own talent and make money to support
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The NCAA published a study in 2020 which highlighted how low of a chance student athletes have at going pro, for football only 1.6% percent of student athletes went pro, while in Men's Basketball student athletes only had a 1.2% chance of going pro. ("Estimated probability of competing in professional athletics." NCAA.org,) This shows that its important that the student athletes get paid as they sacrifice their time and college experience to go professional in a sport with an exceedingly low chance of making