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Specifically, the board said modernization should occur within the following principles and guidelines:  

• Assure student-athletes are treated similarly to non-athlete students unless a compelling reason exists to differentiate. 
  
  
• Maintain the priorities of education and the collegiate experience to provide opportunities for student-athlete success. 
  
  
• Ensure rules are transparent, focused and enforceable and facilitate fair and balanced competition. 
  
  
• Make clear the distinction between collegiate and professional opportunities. 
  
  
• Make clear that compensation for athletics performance or participation is impermissible. 
  
  
• Reaffirm that student-athletes are students first and not employees of the university. 
  
  
• Enhance principles of diversity, inclusion and gender equity. 
  
  
• Protect the recruiting environment and prohibit inducements to select, remain at, or transfer to a specific institution.
  

lots of wiggle room in the above, for example



- note sure how the compensation would not at least be peripherally tied to athletics performance, generally the star player with name recognition is going to get more than a scout team player, after all their athletic performance is usually what gives them more name recognition.......

I think they mean for that statement to be that institutions cannot pay a player for their participation or performance. And apparently others will be paying for use of their name and likeness, not their performance. [The fact that their performance makes their name more valuable seems to be indirect enough not to matter.]

The item on that list which rather caught my eye was the last one. I see no possibility of allowing outsiders to pay for using a players name that would actually rule out an inducement to select, remain at, or transfer to some particular institution.

[CTcard]

Specifically, the board said modernization should occur within the following principles and guidelines:  

• Assure student-athletes are treated similarly to non-athlete students unless a compelling reason exists to differentiate. 
  
  
• Maintain the priorities of education and the collegiate experience to provide opportunities for student-athlete success. 
  
  
• Ensure rules are transparent, focused and enforceable and facilitate fair and balanced competition. 
  
  
• Make clear the distinction between collegiate and professional opportunities. 
  
  
• Make clear that compensation for athletics performance or participation is impermissible. 
  
  
• Reaffirm that student-athletes are students first and not employees of the university. 
  
  
• Enhance principles of diversity, inclusion and gender equity. 
  
  
• Protect the recruiting environment and prohibit inducements to select, remain at, or transfer to a specific institution.
  

lots of wiggle room in the above, for example



- note sure how the compensation would not at least be peripherally tied to athletics performance, generally the star player with name recognition is going to get more than a scout team player, after all their athletic performance is usually what gives them more name recognition.......

I think they mean for that statement to be that institutions cannot pay a player for their participation or performance. And apparently others will be paying for use of their name and likeness, not their performance. [The fact that their performance makes their name more valuable seems to be indirect enough not to matter.]

The item on that list which rather caught my eye was the last one. I see no possibility of allowing outsiders to pay for using a players name that would actually rule out an inducement to select, remain at, or transfer to some particular institution.