Higgins: NCAA is no friend to athletes
The NCAA says a player can’t sell anything for profit. Don’t you wonder how many A.J. Green Nike jerseys are sold by Georgia? Or about the school’s multimillion-dollar contract with Nike, and how the school, in turn, pays Green’s coach, Mark Richt, more than a half million a year?
I’m not picking on Richt. Every BCS coach usually gets a piece of the school’s shoe money. Richt, in fact, would like to see athletes get a monthly stipend — yeah, that’s right, pay athletes — but he also said he understands why they don’t.
And why they don’t is stupid. It’s because the NCAA can’t or doesn’t want to figure out a formula of how all schools can give athletes a stipend, even if the money goes to the athletes in the revenue-producing sports that provide the money to support the nonrevenue-producing sports.
Standard.Net
10/6/10
