[Goose]

The basic problem with this situation is that there is a payout at all to anyone. If we are speaking of student-athletes they are all amateurs. They are playing for the love of the game and the glory of their schools. Whenever somebody else is making money off of this, you are going to have a problem of some kind. No matter how that money is distributed, it can't be "fair". If the schools just got their expenses paid and the rest of the money (if any) went to charity them maybe it could be argued it was "fair". Absent something like that, there will always be problems ensuring the money went to the "right" places. Their will be somebody who (possibly justifiably) feels they are slighted.

[Goose]

The basic problem with this situation is that there is a payout at all to anyone. If we are speaking of student-athletes they are all amateurs. They are playing for the love of the game and the glory of their schools. Whenever somebody else is making money off of this, you are going to have a problem of some kind. No matter how that money is distributed, it can't be "fair". If the schools just got their expenses paid and the rest of the money (if any) went to charity them maybe it could be argued it was "fair". Absent something like that, there will always be problems ensuring the money went to the "right" places. Their will be somebody who (possibly justifiably) feels they are slighted.