Florida will soon consider allowing college athletes to make money from their names, photos and etc.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/...-become-pro-sports-florida-house-speaker-says
California has already permitted such endorsements to begin in a couple of years. Several other states along with Florida are evaluating.
The dodge, for now, is vendors outside the schools, and not the schools themselves, will pay the players. But schools now pay athletes "stipends" and so it can be imagined that compensation from the schools along with outside vendors will increase. The discussion becomes whether players are amateurs, semi-pro or pro.
GO Owls
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/...-become-pro-sports-florida-house-speaker-says
California has already permitted such endorsements to begin in a couple of years. Several other states along with Florida are evaluating.
The dodge, for now, is vendors outside the schools, and not the schools themselves, will pay the players. But schools now pay athletes "stipends" and so it can be imagined that compensation from the schools along with outside vendors will increase. The discussion becomes whether players are amateurs, semi-pro or pro.
GO Owls
