What would “The Game” between Michigan and Ohio State look like if only the Wolverines could profit? A look at how nascent laws could transform college sports.
What it means to be a college athlete could change radically in a matter of years, if not months. It all depends on the resolution of the multibillion-dollar debate over whether athletes in college deserve to make money—and exactly how that is allowed to happen.
Today’s college athletes are subject to a web of National Collegiate Athletic Association bylaws that prohibit them from accepting compensation. To maintain their “amateur” status, they can receive financial aid above basic scholarships up to the federally defined full cost of attendance, plus a smattering of benefits—an arrangement that has generated public frustration, legal challenges and back-and-forth with the NCAA for years.
Now, however, action in state legislatures, Congress, an NCAA working group and a federal appeals court could force lasting and unpredictable transformation across college sports. Imagine a future where some schools pay athletes and some don’t, tipping the scales in longstanding rivalries. Where alumni give directly to students, rather than funding deluxe athletic facilities. Where the most powerful teams leave the NCAA and form competing organizations.
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