Now, the Big Ten affair seems to have the potential to widen that loophole. From the Daily Bruin:
After the Big Ten secured an historic media rights deal Thursday, the conference’s commissioner, Kevin Warren, laid out some more goals for the future. Warren ultimately sees his league – the soon-to-be home of the Bruins – expanding to 20 members at some point. And he envisions the conference paying its players. While UCLA football coach Chip Kelly hadn’t heard Warren’s remarks when asked about them at the Bruins’ practice Friday, he said conference realignment and student-athlete compensation both seem inevitable in the near future. But he added that there are still question marks regarding how players will get paid.
“The paying the players thing is something that’s probably going to happen in the future, as long as they can figure out a way for it to comply with all the rules,” Kelly said. Those rules, however, remain largely undefined. As name, image and likeness has ballooned over the past year since its formal introduction in July 2021, the methods by which student-athletes across the country have earned money have also expanded...
While Kelly believes student-athletes should get paid, he said the fundamental model by which college athletics programs are run could be set for a change if paying players becomes the norm – specifically as it pertains to the funding of nonrevenue sports. “I think the players should get paid if it can be worked out the right way,” Kelly said...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2022/08/20/football-coach-chip-kelly-raises-questions-about-big-tens-goal-to-pay-players.
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/08/nil-aint-nothing-anymore-part-2.html.
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