The NCAA Will Now Have To Manage College Athlete Compensation

Per a CBS report the NCAA has officially reached a $60 million settlement with players who took part in their NCAA football video game series — a franchise that hasn’t put a game out since 2013.

This decision by a judge is a huge victory for college athletes everywhere who have already or were hoping to take part in having their name, likeness, and image used in a video game.

It’s even bigger because they should be getting paid for that.

College athlete compensation has been a growing topic in the sports world, and it’s about time we open that can of worms because it’s something that affects our next generations and needs to be addressed as soon as possible.

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Knowing personally what the college struggle can be like on a day to day basis, it’s no laughing matter when the NCAA takes full advantage of these student athletes.

Across the board, these hard-working athletes have no sense of stop because they are giving it all they can as they try to ascend to the next level.

As for the board of commissioners and other top-ranking NCAA officials?

Well, let’s just say they’re the ones with no money issues.

Aside from officials running the show from behind the scenes, the universities themselves are making millions upon millions because of their star players.

According to an article by the International Business Times, the top five schools in terms of revenue are the University of Louisville, University of Arizona, Duke University, the University of Kentucky, and Indiana University.

Not to mention that Louisville topped the list with recent numbers indicating over $40 million in revenue and about $24 million left over after all expenses are covered.

That’s well more than enough to give their students a little piece of that puzzle — especially with the kind of success they are known for in that sport and tournament in particular.

That’s way more than anyone needs to be stuffing into their own pockets.

Let’s return quickly to football, though, since that was the issue involved in the lawsuit.

If you were to look at statistics gathered by US News about the 2014 bowl games, the payouts per conference numbers are rather alarming.

The SEC, as expected if you look at how dominate teams from their conference are, raked in the most cash according to those numbers.

And by the most we’re talking over $87 million.

What I don’t understand is how colleges and conferences can continue to make the big bucks off of players that sometimes can’t eat at night because they don’t have the money.

And yet somehow it’s wrong for college athletes to get a little money off of their own signature?

C’mon now. We’re all just trying to get by.

A fix to this problem is simple and wouldn’t be such a long and drawn out process if the NCAA would just learn to lend more of a helping hand to  those trying to make a dream come true.

Bottom Line: This is a step in the right direction.

Because right now the only dreams we seem to be okay with in reality are the nightmares.

And that cannot continue if we truly want change for the better.